Fugue in G minor

a video done by www.musanim.com

of one of my fugues at

www.davideccles.net (no longer DavidChristian.net)

This was done when I didn't truly understand the ins and outs of the form that well. Oftentimes, I used a natural ear to substitute for my shaky theory. Many of the minor mistakes, parallel fifths and octaves, etc., were identified by a friend of mine--a much better music theory nerd than I am, well, nerdy in other ways than I am perhaps. In any case, the end result you see here is the result of a lot of tinkering. Probably I should do some more, however I'll leave it for now.

There have been some requests: That i should write an "inversus" of this fugue (turning the voices upside down) Although, I have started such a fugue--and found that this puppy inverts very nicely--my shaky theory is not yet up to the task. Also There is a notion that it might be too short--that the development section should be longer and explore more combinations of the voices.

Both these ideas, and a few others, are very interesting, and I may try them at some future date. One minor note: In order to make this piece longer it adaptes to a "DC al fine" type of repeat structure very easily with the changing of only a few notes.

I'll leave it to you to figure out how to do that :)

Category:

Music

Tags:

• fugue
• baroque

[gsarci2011]

Maybe a little difficult, sir, this is a four-voice fugue, and I don't know if I can play this with a speed like that while trying to hit the notes correctly... but, a nice job in composing this one, anyway, although your friend composed much of this...

[curvycom]

@gsarci2011 Ah well, I didn't really write it with a particular instrument in mind. Also perhaps I wasn't clear in the explanation area? My friend didn't "Compose much of this" he merely pointed out the parallel fifths and octaves that I missed.

I think you could probably play this if you added your feet (organ or pedal harpsichord, or something electronic) I usually write my fugues out for two keyboardists, which always works: four voices, four hands.

[curvycom]

@gsarci2011 UPDATE: I reread my explanation section and realized that you are absolutely correct in pointing out my unclear meaning. I have edited my explanation section to make it more clear. Thanks very much for helping me to do that!

[Le0Fender]

Man, you should have ended it in G major, not in G minor.

[curvycom]

@Le0Fender naw, the picardy third, as it's called, is a device people use lately when writing minor counterpoint. That doesn't mean one has to do it every time. Bach used it, for example, but certainly not every time--not even close to half the time. I thought about doing it, but decided I liked it the minor better. If I had done it, I might have rendered the motiv in a major key and/or played around with the 3rd of picardy concept in some other way. Good idea you must be a good musician!!

[curvycom]

To whom it may concern:

It seems that youtube has corrected the sync problems -- or the new version of flash perhaps deals better with badly converted video, maybe?

Either way, the video seems to be syncing up now for everyone

[DrKorn5]

Well of course it sounds chaotic and repetative its a Fugue with several themes in counterpoint.

[tnix80]

it's not bach but nothing is. it's very nice

[gsarci2011]

@curvycom no problem!...hey, any plans of uploading more videos like this?

[Chefodeath]

Ah, what a fun fugue

[monsterrockenergy]

Precious music! Very nice one!

[UsagiTsunami]

Wow. I think this is brilliant. Would love to hear the live performance, but it's great to watch the graphics. Makes me want to do a weaving!