Fugue in D minor

An early fugue I wrote while trying to get a feel for counterpoint when I started working on my compositional process more seriously.

Fugue in D minor

sound didn't work when I first opened it, now it does work...

well. It looks promising, although there are some unconventional issues. is this fugue intended as a conventianal fugue? or just as excercise to sound contrapunctal? Sometimes the subject and counter subject move paralel, so I wouldn't call it really contrapunctal. In ms 8, the notes on each quarter (D and E in both voices)

The second entry of the subject is usually in the dominant. You repeat it in the tonic. The pedal is pretty fast. Hard to play, not impossible but not easy. The Bes in ms 16 and further is out of range, since the pedal goes to a low C...

Unfortunately you do not really maintain the countersubject

The LH is quite high. Its usualy written in the bass clef.

A nicely modelled fugue, although some formal quirks are present relating to S / CS. There are a few notational errors that need to be corrected, as well as some range and technique considerations to be taken into account (jc pretty much beat me to it.)

Yeah, this was an early piece, more as an exercise for myself. Some of the notational stuff, I have to correct since I imported it from a midi file and still need to clean some stuff up.

Beautiful.

I listened three times to check. Are you sure this wasn't written by Bach?

If there are technical adjustments needed be made to the organ parts, i'm sure they can be made.

I love fugues. There is artistic expression in yours in my estimation. I say the fugue is a form or idea. If one obeys his or her aesthetic sense, then I say there are no rules one should have to obey so that it may be called a fugue.

Well done!

Great, just check bars 16 and 17 because the pedal is usualy not able to play that low B. The pedal board goes from low c to middle c (2 octaves)

Well, all the ingredients are here: good counterpoint (in my opinion), nice exploration of music by constantly switching between keys (using accidentals and such), and melody takes a back seat to development. Definitely a Bach-like piece :lol: Nice work!I'll give it a 9/10 :)

Thanks for the input, particularly about the pedal being unplayable. This is one of my earliest pieces which I wrote more as an exercise for myself in counterpoint so playability wasn't taken much into consideration. I should go back and edit/expand it sometime, especially since it seems to be one of my more popular pieces here!

NICE!! good job

Okay, but the subject or topic is a bit lengthy, it is my opinion. You should make the subject a bit shorter. The rest is fine.

Regards

Awesome, brings out the feel of fugue.

Awesome, brings out the feel of fugue.

Glad you liked it!

A very, very short fugato here. Some comments, I agree with Manam regarding the length of your subject. That said, I don't see any countersubjects, answers, or any of the other characteristics of fugal writing. It seems you sort of just scrap that entirely. Not a bad thing at all, but definitely not fugal. That said, looking over the counterpoint here.. I see some issues. Bar 7, you have an obvious hidden parallel octave - also the same in bar 10. Further in the piece, you have two voices maintaining parallel 6ths for quite some time - which really deletes the independence of the two separate lines (bars 18 - 20). These aren't bad at all - and given you said this was an early fugue you wrote to give you an idea of counterpoint, I can say you did a good job avoiding some of the common beginner mistakes! You should post a more current fugue... so we can see how you've grown.