Unfinished Fugue

I hope you do indeed finish up on the ricercar sometime soon just to hear how it turns out. The harmonization was nice, the neighbor note figure worked well. Multiple expositions, like the old ricercars could work very nice. Again, up to you. I'm eager to hear it finished, whatever format you choose.

Is that you playing in the mp3? It sounds so real...if it's not you, what setting is it?

Praeludium and Fuge, I've been working on this fugue and I've decided to separate my work into a 18th century fugue and a 17th century canzona. I made an entirely new subject for the canzona, and I wrote a little example of the rhythmic style I'm learning from Froberger and Frescobaldi.

Capriccio a - eSnips, share anything

This I know I'll have a lot of fun continuing. In this style, I stay modal but frequently tonicise different keys. I generally only let one part move quickly at a time, although the other lines are equally melodic, if much slower. This allows this sort of music to be played very quickly. Once I add three or four sections in various rhythms I'll have an excellent bit of fugal music. Of course, those who've only heard Bach will criticize the counterpoint as weak, but then I'll enjoy the rhythms and bizarre chromaticism all to myself .

By separating the two approaches I won't be continually frustrated by style; hopefully I can learn much from both these pieces. I will try to post them this weekend.

That is quite nice echurchill. It's up to you how you handle the counterpoint. I'd like to hear the finished ricercar! Like the Froberger organ ricercars with multiple expositions/subjects. Or are you sticking with a canzona on the one hand and the fugue on the other? This is in d minor so I'm guessing it's a different piece although it could work in b minor as a section of a Froberger-style ricercar, with what you had before. I'm eager to hear what you come up with.

Thank you for listening. I'm probably going to name the late Baroque one fugue asnd the early one ricercar. Ricercar, for no reason other than that capriccio and canzona don't sound nearly as cool . I'm still not sure how I'll finish them, but they will be finished next week when I have time.

I just found a few Froberger toccatas streaming off of Magnatune at SCD: Biber Violin Sonatas. I recommend these to everyone. Perhaps the most amazing renditions of these I have ever heard; you should especially check out the A minor Toccata VI and the piece by Richter (whom before I had only known as a composer Pachelbel had dedicated Hexachordum Apollinis to). And of course Biber is nice too.

I finished notating what EChurchill's has completed so far (I may have slipped up in a certain spot, but this should do for now ).

I also wrote a little classical trumpet/piano fanfare to encourage him to finish this great fugue!

Fugue Arrangement

Once it's finished, I'll make a much better recording.

Here is a much better recording (and arrangement) of EChurchill's fugue.

Fugue Recording Bigger Reverb

Fugue Recording Smaller Reverb

Your capriccio recording sounds kind of out of tune.. can you fix this?

Well, its in meantone which unfortunately sounds too in tune to our equal tempered ears. I can change it.. but is it worth it with such a small clip? I'll expand that one too when I can.

Is simply amazing. I love it, i'm not as knowledgable as many on this site, but i love the sounds of the church organ and harpsichord, and you sir have given the instrument the glory of which it deserves.