Young Composers' Fugue Challenge

Nice job with the three voice fugue, Bach88! I like the chromatics you throw in, especially towards the ending. Keep it up !

Originally posted by The Baroque Enthusiast@Sep 13 2005, 09:51 PM
[b]Nice job with the three voice fugue, Bach88! I like the chromatics you throw in, especially towards the ending. Keep it up !*

Thanks

Fugue I
for Young Composers' Fugue Challenge
in C Major
for 4 voices
by Brandon Homayouni
16 Sept 2005

Wow. What else can I say?

My C major is nearing completion, but I made the mistake of composing part of it today while I had a fever (I've been sick all week ), and while it works...sort of...it is stylistically wrong for the context. I get bored sitting in bed, so I've made this mistake before, and what I write while ill invariably sounds like a madman wrote it. I have to re-write the section when I feel better. Mine will be very different in character...to begin with, it's choral.

Wow.* What else can I say?

I second that! Incredible job!

I suppose sleepless nights are good for something.

Here’s my C major in five voices, set as an a cappella choral Kyrie eleison. I was trying for something in an early 18th Century Italian “antique”� style emulating Palestrina, but through the prism of 300 years ended up with something that at times sounds more like Rheinberger than Albinoni. Whatever the case, here ‘tis...and it is what it is.

I found this subject challenging to work (especially in a choral context), but also amenable to such bells and whistles as simultaneous harmonic statements of the subject, inversion, and the longest stretto I’ve ever written. Fun stuff.

I’ve included a PDF in case someone would like to see the text underlay.

Very nice job, J. Lee! Always love choral fugues!

I was actually thinking of doing the same with Bmin, but as I said before, it hasn't really gotten off the ground (past the exposition). Maybe this next weekend.....

There's some very impressive work being showcased in this thread.

Wow this topic is growing fast. I haven't had time to listen to any of the newly posted fugues but good job at writing them. I worked some bit on my other compositions. But I think I will have some time later and I will force out something.

Motivation is good, but I think you should just let it come to you gradually and naturally. Don't work too much on fugue in one sitting if it is beginning to frustrate you. Just take a break and come back the next day. There's really no rush or deadline.