December 15, 20196 yr Just (hopefully to be) a chorale with a great lack of homophony (which I once read to be a pretty characteristic attribute of chorales as a whole) so I'm not really sure whether to call it a somewhat heterodox chorale or something else I might be utterly missing. I began it just today and have spent most time this day finishing and arranging it for a string quartet, whose version I'll probably be uploading in a few minutes. Annyway, here it is:
December 16, 20196 yr It sounds good. I love the sound of the harpsichord. I don't care very much about parallels and that, if it sounds nice to me.... I love the final part when te lower voice takes the G# in m. 22.Nice change to prepare the end.
December 21, 20196 yr Author Thank you so much. Are there really so many parallels? If so, I'm either blind or deaf. Besides how unlearned I am in harmony, thank you.
January 3, 20206 yr On 12/21/2019 at 1:32 PM, Nloki said: Thank you so much. Are there really so many parallels? If so, I'm either blind or deaf. Besides how unlearned I am in harmony, thank you. That's okay, you aren't the first one to run into the issue of parallels. I run into parallel fifths and octaves all the time in my canons and fugues, even when I try to avoid those parallels. I also run into parallel fourths a lot, though not as much as parallel fifths or parallel octaves. Parallel thirds and sixths are okay as long as there aren't so many in a row that the 2 voices in parallel motion don't sound independent anymore(I usually try to stick to 4 or fewer thirds or sixths in a run of parallels before going back to contrary and oblique motion in my contrapuntal works).
January 7, 20206 yr This certainly is an active, contrapuntally rich chorale. I quite like it. The parallel octaves and fifths are all over the piece -but... I'm not bothered by them in the least. Nice work.
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