a short fugue I wrote

• Aug 5, 2011 - 20:02

3 parts in open score

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• Aug 9, 2011 - 14:26

To me, this sounds like an organ piece. So, maybe, it should be scored that way ... not for "violin" and so-on, and, perhaps not in three separate staves.

One other thought: play it very fast. Turn the tempo up so fast that the notes begin to blur together, and listen. "They do, indeed, 'blur together.' " Here we have three parallel lines of music that are as chock-full of notes as they could be, generally moving in the same direction, generally at the same time. Whew!!

You describe it as "open score," but it's dense. What if... it weren't?

I wonder what would happen if "these woods were trimmed a little bit?" Just go in there and (as we say in the Tennessee (USA) summertime) chop out the privet, trim the sucker-branches off the trees, and so on. What if one or another part just laid-off completely for a few measures, letting the others state the current theme while they remained silent? It might give the composition a little more "room to breathe." It would certainly be an idea worth exploring, maybe, of course in a copy of the very fine piece of music that you have here.

I certainly find this to be true in creative-writing. (Uh huh, and I should apply it to this post... oh well...) You write a bunch of stuff. Then, you thin it out, and when you do, you find it's stronger.

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• Sep 7, 2011 - 20:17

Thank you "shutter freak" for your kind works of appreciation. I know some see no point in writing music in the baroque style --- but I just love writing in this way.

And musecore even allows me to write choral works in the style of Bach's cantatas --- what a wonderful program.

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• Jan 5, 2013 - 15:26

wow, nice piece you made there! i think its quite hard to make baroque style look genuine, and you pulled it out really well :)

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