D Minor Prelude and Fugue?

I wrote this piece just today and it's the second real fugue I've composed. It's not amazingly great but I think it's okay. I just wanna know what you think :)

d Prelude.sib

d Fugue.sib

I wrote this piece just today and it's the second real fugue I've composed. It's not amazingly great but I think it's okay. I just wanna know what you think :)

Any of the following formats would help: Midi, MP3, PDF or BMP/JPEG. PDF is slow and bloated so if you can export to BMP or JPEG instead it would be greatly appreciated.

Oh ok, so here's the midi and pdfs (image files won't attach for some reason):

d Fugue.mid

d Prelude.mid

d Fugue.pdf

d Prelude.pdf

Oh ok, so here's the midi and pdfs (image files won't attach for some reason):

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[ATTACH]18693[/ATTACH]

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Prelude: I like the melody and the flow but the melody in the accompaniment could have been pushed a little more with a more defined rhythmic identity of it's own.

Fugue: It loses a clarity and momentum between bars 11 and 18 where it sounds like you've thrown in a few too many ideas cose together. I like the playful ending.

Some ideas (my 2 cents based purely on my personal preferences in music): I think you missed out on an opportunity to bring back the subject at a higher register before breaking out into various elaborations and also to play around a bit more with registers and keys. For example, at measure 21, where the subject responds to measure 19 a couple of octaves below, try coming in at C instead. I feel it would have been a bit more dramatic. Ultimately it's your piece and you have to decide what sounds good to you. This kind of thing is highly subjective and there is no right or wrong.

Any of the following formats would help: Midi, MP3, PDF or BMP/JPEG. PDF is slow and bloated so if you can export to BMP or JPEG instead it would be greatly appreciated.

No it's not. PDF's speed is completely dependent on your reader.

No it's not. PDF's speed is completely dependent on your reader.

We're veering off-topic here but while some readers are faster than others even the fastest PDF reader is slower than a jpeg. PDFs can also be finicky and unstable. Not everyone has an ideal setup.

Fugue: It loses a clarity and momentum between bars 11 and 18 where it sounds like you've thrown in a few too many ideas cose together.

Yeah, after I listened to it again I realised that; it's probably because I wrote everything before around measure 15 one day and the rest the next day, so I didn't know where I was going

Thanks for the comments!

Solid works. They're well paced. In the prelude, at the exact time I was thinking you needed a key change to switch things up, a key change happened! I was quite excited. Also, I liked how you built up the intensity towards the end by raising left hand notes into the ledger lines and then returned it to the main theme for the last 4 bars.

What about experimenting with articulations? I'm sure you could get some cooler sounds and interesting phrasing if you had some staccatos or slurs in your theme.

Fugue:

Cool subject. I like the sequences at bar 24. What if you ended the piece in major? Bach did it.

I'm impressed with how well I can hear the subject throughout all the counterpoint. There were a couple places where the lower two voices kind of blur together and it's less interesting, but that only lasts for a couple of bars.

The prelude reminds me of the D minor & C major from Bach's WTC I...except that I don't think the harmonic changes in your piece are quite interesting enough to justify the repetitiveness in the rhythm. This is not to say that they aren't at all interesting...they are but I just think they may need more rhythmic elaboration.

Similar for the fugue...it is quite solid and demonstrates that you have good command of the material but I think it needs to be fleshed it out with more episodes and thematic development.

That said, I liked both pieces. So a good show...and a good start...but only good! Make it great, I see no reason why you cannot!