Young Composers' Fugue Challenge

Originally Posted by The Baroque Enthusiast

Hey, Paul, nice job with the Cmin subject. A very unique approach, using a very different harmonic language. Good work!

I think I've realized why I love the Cmin subject sooo much. Check out the fugue subject form Bach's Fantasy and Fugue in C minor, BWV 537, and compare. Our C min melody could almost be an elaboration of that one!

- BE

Thank you for the feedback, BE I worked hard on that.

Though... I half suspected that the style police were going to arrest me(not you, though), put me in baroque jail, and beat me with a lute string, but I guess I've been spared. That's why I announced my intentions with certain sections, to make it clear they were purposeful.

Btw - do you think bar 81 is practical for a string section?

I don't see why this post, with its obvious popularity (given the number of replies and views) shouldn't be "pinned" as well.

I agree. Pinned!

Btw - do you think bar 81 is practical for a string section?

The midi never displays correctly in my program, so the bars don't line up correctly with what you wrote. Give me a an approximation of the time at which measure 81 occurs and I should be able to find it!

- BE

Pinned!

Yayyy!

- BE

Short cadenza (perhaps free form elaboration is a better term) starts at 2:40 and goes to 2:43

Hmm, well in time it looks to be quite difficult. If it is a true cadenza, then it might be more practical to remove the "alto" harmony at that point, and delegate the passage to a single violin soloist. The soloist could bend the tempo ad lib., but the re-entry of the theme should be a tempo.

If its not a true cadenza, then I would suggest keeping it in time, and altering the violin I part.

Hope that helps!

- BE

Originally Posted by The Baroque Enthusiast

Hmm, well in time it looks to be quite difficult. If it is a true cadenza, then it might be more practical to remove the "alto" harmony at that point, and delegate the passage to a single violin soloist. The soloist could bend the tempo ad lib., but the re-entry of the theme should be a tempo.

If its not a true cadenza, then I would suggest keeping it in time, and altering the violin I part.

Hope that helps!

- BE

Considered using a solo violin for that part. Thanks for your time and comments. I do need to get a decent book on orchestration for instruments I don't play (obviously violin is one), so I don't write music that is unlikely to be played well by the majority of instrumentalists. Had a similiar issue in "judgement day" with the trumpet part.

Fugue in C Minor
a 3 voci

I used a few "bits" from the other c minor's

Wow, nice job there, real impressive. This is the nicest fugue I've heard on this subject so far.
I don't know how this subject lends itself contrapuntally too well, but personally I would have made the counter-subject material a little less busy and more singable. The sequences are beautiful though. Good job.