Young Composers' Fugue Challenge

Incredable fugues i see!

This is my 4 voice fugue for the theme in E minor.
It can also be executed by a choir.

Lee: Suprisingly enough, your writing is very idiomatic!

Ok, i'll try one. Anyone willing to teach me the basics here?

Nice job, Bach88!

Letehn: I think this should help you get started:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugue

I know I posted it on the other thread, but it does give a good outline of the styles and structures of a fugue. Hope it helps!

Lee: Suprisingly enough, your writing is very idiomatic!

You could have paid me no greater compliment!

Ok this is what I have halfway through. The last part is just bits I already had for use somewhere, added to the finished part.


Click.

Any tips on development? I never really know where to go, which road to take and none reveal themselves to me after finishing the exposition. I think this subject is too dominant and recognisable to really milk like I did. But I do want to get it in the texture someway. I guess I'll add new thematic material with the subject in diminution when I get time to rewrite this piece. Any suggestions on using canrizans in a fugue development? Or any examples? And could someone give me your personal comments and opinions on useage of cadenses anywhere in a fugue?

Nice job so far. I noticed that you altered the subject in its first statement though. I dont know if this was intentional or accidental; check out the original one more time.

Any suggestions on using canrizans in a fugue development? Or any examples? And could someone give me your personal comments and opinions on useage of cadenses anywhere in a fugue?

Well, I've never heard of a canziran (though I will proceed to look that up shortly). As for cadences, they should flow, so there is no interruption of the fugue. Its hard to explain without an example: check out my Cm one though, you can hear it in there (sorta). With each entrance of the "false" subject, there is a small cadence.....but that usually goes right into another subject entrance immediately after.

I'm not sure if thats what you were asking about, and I doubt I explained it clearly either, so take from it what you will.

I guess you mean 'in modo cancrizante' and that is basically the same as retrograde motion, if I'm not mistaken. It roughly translates to 'in crab motion', and I'm sure that Bach would have examples. Wouldn't know which, though

God! This thing is giving me a pain! I have 30 seconds so far, arr!!

Yet another baroque blooper by me
Something strange happening, Im of key almost instantly, What key is it?
I just abandoned this particular efford but I'm not giving up writing a fuge, no, no.

I'm not satisfied with this attempt, apart from the key issue the music is incoherent to my taste. If you know were I've gone wrong, please help.

Thanks in advance, your frusty croq Artisimo
subject6.mp3

Something strange happening, Im of key almost instantly, What key is it?

Well you start in E min, and by the last measure you wind up in B min: there's really nothing wrong with that and the chord progression that got you there, it's actually quite nice!

I'm not satisfied with this attempt, apart from the key issue the music is incoherent to my taste. If you know were I've gone wrong, please help.

The only thing I'd really say is that after the intial entrances, you place the melody in the soprano and lose the contrapuntal feel (it's kinda homophonic, melody with chords), but thats not too bad; you can break out of that easily. Besides that, its pretty solid.

I just abandoned this particular efford

Oh come on! This subject is very nice! Keep working with it, I'm sure it'll turn out for the best!