Halloween Fugue in G-sharp minor.

Following a relatively long pause in my compositional schedule over the summer, I have once more set myself to work, and to my surprise, my contrapuntal skills haven't been as affected as I would have otherwise expected. Thus I have spent the Halloween eve composing this fugue, based on a previously abandoned yet still fairly recent subject.

I would say I'm rather happy with how this one in particular turned out: four different pedal points, two stretti, and a number of episodes I haven't even bothered to count, perhaps fearing that I might come to unfoundedly disdain it as too repetitive. Who knows.

Anyhow, here it is. Happy Halloween everyone!

Halloween Fugue in G-sharp minor. - YouTube

excellent, just excellent! Hearing your score felt like it was 8 minutes not 3 shows how into your score I was

Wonderful fugue 🙂
Would you call that ending stylus fantasticus?

I enjoyed this piece a lot. The subject is very catchy and has personality.

However my overall feeling is that there is a high dense texture. I thin this is because the three voices are in the score all the time, it's usual to let some of them rest here and there to change the texture. Also, the figures are similar, and quick, perhaps one voice in some moments could take longer notes. In fact, when the bass works in octaves (why not in a fixed note?) there is some relief. 

The final part (tempo di cadenza) has no sense to me...

Fugues are always difficult....

No words can tell how great this fugue is. Terrific contrapuntal writing! This is something that I cannot achieve at the moment.

Very impressive fugue! You have a great theme and sense of counterpoint. Love the ending as well, a good break for the fugual texutre. Where you really shine is in your episodes. My only cirtic is:

- This soundes baroque, is there a reason for that key?

- I agree with Luis, the reason why your episodes are perfect is because you dont overuse the counterpoint, its mor immitative and calm. The rest of the fugue your counterpoint is very heavy, draw some inspiration form buxtehude 😉

Overall great work, im very impressed

On 11/19/2022 at 11:18 PM, Simen-N said:

- This sounds baroque, is there a reason for that key?

My fugal subjects generally come to mind with a specific key already associated with them, regardless of whether it would be more stylistically acurate to transpose them to less daunting keys. In this case, I guess it could simply be transposed to G minor. On the other hand, however, I generally try to balance out between keys I may have already finished fugues for and those that I haven't devised any compositions for, therefore, since I already have a couple fugues in G minor, I saw no reason to transpose this fugue to said key and instead left it at G-sharp minor.

Thank you so much for your feedback!