Fugue Challenge

Yeah well why dont you ******* arrange it for the ******* organ yourself. You're really struggling to come up with a complaint, aren't you, ******? Right now I am too sick and have no money for food so you can just **** off as far as I am concerned.

?? I didn't mean any harm. Calm down, man. I really think you did a good job on the fugue. I don't have any complaints. It was just a suggestion. I thought the point of this thing was to give each other suggestions?!

......Not cool man....

Recursion is now officially on my blacklist. One more outlash like that, and banning will be considered.

All righty then...

Here's my attempt at the C-minor subject, for string quartet.

It's not very long, but I didn't have tons of time to work on it. With a subject this good, you could go on forever. It does what it needs to do, I guess.

Amazing stuff here, J. Lee. Its not baroque, but I still love it. I love what you did at the beginning of the episodic section (from 0:22 to 0:30, about), and the surprise entrances from 0:53 to 1:05 are great as well. Amazing job, man :D

Oh man. That was so cool. Yay!

Oh no! Parallel fifths between the violin and viola in measure 33!!!! :excl:

Considering I wrote that passage at about 2:00 this morning, I suppose it's forgiveable. :D *smacks his own knuckles with a ruler* Oww!

Now that I've been suitably chastened, it's easily fixed, thank God. I've reattached the slightly-revised version in my original post. Must practice what we preach, after all.

Thanks, you guys, for your compliments. Glad you enjoyed it. I was going more for something Beethoven or Schubert might have done on a bad day than for baroque. I might have to use that as an Intermezzo Fugato in a Quartet I've got ideas for at the moment.

I might try a stricter baroque setting of the C-major. That's a very difficult subject. Pity Brandon removed his...I hadn't had a chance to listen to it. I hope he reconsiders.

Come on, you guys! Some more of you give this a try! Like Brandon said quite rightly, it's great exercise, and it'll improve your technique faster than almost anything else.

:: Edit, 9/6/05: Sigh...parallel fifths between violin I and cello in measure 38, and a careless error in violin II in measure 39...I must really have been getting tired. Anyway, fixed, and you'd hardly notice the change...but I HAD to fix it.

I guess you could say I'm a little bit of a perfectionist...

Oh my God! I just noticed that Brandon deleted ALL the subjects! :D :excl: :lol:

Did anyone save them all?... :(

Yea, I saved most of them........but it might not be the best idea to use them just yet. Maybe we should come up with new ones???

Considering I wrote that passage at about 2:00 this morning

Forgive for asking, but... WHAT THE HECK were you doing writing that passage 2:00 in the morning?

Oh, don't worry. I'm not going to be contributing to your asinine website in the future. I'm sure you'll all be relieved to be rid of the comparison.

Brandon Homayouni

Please, Brandon...don't do this. Please.

I don't know what happened here but I am just informing you guys I am still working on mine.

I am usually horribly slow but after rewriting the exposition 20 times I am kind of stuck at this point. I tried something but I had to delete because it was no good.

I am always so slow, I hate it. Well, I also have two other fugues kind of stuck after the exposition.

The Baroque Enthusiast, you wrote yours amazingly fast. Some really good moments. Same for J. Lee Graham's, you added some nice new thematic material. It's long enough. Maybe not in time but in measures. I noticed one thing, I set my speed to 104 BPM while most of you picked something a lot faster for the Cm subject.

When I look at both of those works I get the feeling I don't have the natural talent and that I am too critical of what I write. Ack. Well I will keep on it.

BTW, I didn't meant to say that my exposition is really great but that I really liked the subject.

Come on guys get along. Moderators, you shouldn't threaten to ban anyone, ever! Simply deleting profanity is all that is necessary. We need to get the rules straight so this may partly be my fault.

Brandon, we wish for you to keep participating! Seriously. We all like you and have nothing against you. All I ask is just be cautious on your language and try not to be hurt, these guys are just giving advice...

...but mods...please do not go ballistic on our members or threaten them. This is bad behavior on your part, not Recursion's.

Yeah well why dont you ******* arrange it for the ******* organ yourself.

For those of you who wish to continue participating in Fugue Challenge, it will soon be hosted on a new website, for which I will give you the url once the page has been built.

there's something about the subject that bothers me. I think its that skip from the second note to the third, and I can't put my finger on why

..Perhaps you would have said the same thing of the finale movement to Mozart's Symphony No. 41 "Jupiter" which uses a very similar subject.

Hey guys this thread is coming to a close, per request of Recursion, who started this topic. He wants to start fresh again.

I talked to Recursion, and he is a really cool guy. Obviously the bad language was uncalled for, and it was good that the language was deleted. Very good thing. Now:

The reason he got mad......was because he did not ask for a critique. There is another forum specifically for that. This was a competition thread. Obviously not everyone will have the same tastes, but do not give someone negative criticsm if they did not ask for it. We composers are very sensitive. This is why we have other forums on this site!

Another thing is, he was crabby. We all get crabby! But that was fixed by deletion of his post. Thats all that was necessary. I am sad that there is some hatred on this forum, but contain yourselves and try to get along. Everyone is equal and no one is perfect...I am FAR from perfect myself! This website is way too high quality for this nonsense ok??

Last thing is, Recursion would like to feel accepted and he would like to apologize for the rude behavior on his part. He meant no harm at all, and he just wants to have fun! Ok, so everyone be nice...any form of hatred on this site will be deleted and not be tolerated...becuase I am a nice guy and want to promote music, and talent...not hatred :)

That's good news. Thanks for the clarification. I'm relieved.

When I look at both of those works I get the feeling I don't have the natural talent and that I am too critical of what I write. Ack. Well I will keep on it.

Prometheus, writing fugues is one of the most difficult things to accomplish in all of composition. That's why we're practicing it here. Naturally, you'll make some mistakes at first no matter how hard you try. Please, don't be too hard on yourself. :)

Forgive and forget, i say. :)

Yep, same. I'm sorry Brandon, I didn't realize you didn't want criticism. Though I'm still a little upset over some of your remarks, let's just put it all behind us, ok? Truce?

It's fine. It all came out in the wash. I'm sorry for my petty outburst.

I was going to suggest that since all of you were interested in the C-Minor subject of the Fugue Challenge, and none of the others, that I'd repost the C-Minor, and invite someone else to provide the next subject for Fugue Challenge. Maybe one subject at a time would be more interesting anyway. Thoughts?

BH

The C Minor was just a really interesting place to start, in my opinion. I had every intention of taking a stab at all of them, time permitting and the creek don't rise.

The next one I wanted to try was the C Major.

It's your thread, Brandon - do as you think is best - but my vote would be for all of them to come back.

Of course, another thing to think about: they do take up some space in your personal quota of global disk space, though not much.

Forgive for asking, but... WHAT THE HECK were you doing writing that passage 2:00 in the morning?

I'm definitely a night-owl. I do some of my best composing at night between 10:00pm and 4:00am. For some reason, I'm able to concentrate better. I'm not able to indulge myself very often, but when I do, interesting things happen.

Yea, either way is good Brandon. I'd like to take a crack at the C maj, too though :P