Fugue

Very exciting -- unfinished sounding, keep adding measures! The reverb is maybe a bit too much, and there could be a little relief from the excitement in an episode or two. By 'breaking the rules' you use up harmonic space more quickly than might be necessary -- could you rein yourself in at about 0:10 and keep to the key a little longer, giving a counter-exposition and then a first episode before heading away into the horizon harmonically? One -- of the many -- beauties of fugue is the opportunity for dramatic contrast under the heading of episode. The trills, toward the end of your excerpt, don't work so well for me.

I happen to love fugues so, for me, please keep posting.

Very nice, as the other posters have said. As "gugliel" said, it does kind of end on an "unfinished" note, so hope you will continue adding to it.
Without understanding anything about classical music theory, I think it's remarkable that a piece can consist of just a single instrument (organ) -- and yet contain so much intricacy and variation that it can fully captivate one's interest...

gugliel,

Thanks for your input.

...there could be a little relief from the excitement in an episode or two.

I'm not sure what an episode is--I need to learn more about what a fugue actually is...

By 'breaking the rules' you use up harmonic space more quickly than might be necessary -- could you rein yourself in at about 0:10 and keep to the key a little longer, giving a counter-exposition and then a first episode before heading away into the horizon harmonically?

I understand your comment about the key change right in the opening of the piece--it's not necessary at all. I'm going to try removing the trills.

At one point, this was twice as long as it currently is, but I lost the second half to a hard disk crash. Fortunately, I had this part of it backed up, and was able to import into Sonar. I'm still amazed by the sounds that you can get from VSampler. The organ sample was a freebie, and it sounds great to me.

I understand your comment about the key change right in the opening of the piece--it's not
necessary at all. I'm going to try removing the trills.

Dave, are you using multiple screen names, then?

The key changes are characteristic of the genre - they sounded "right" to me. Another personal opinion: I liked the trills when they came up! It definitely didn't seem out of place to me.

This was fun. I immediately started it again when it ended. Occasionally, I've threatened to go back to some classical studies, myself; I'm impressed that you're actually doing it!

Cool exercise.

M

Yes, I was trying to log in from work, and couldn't remember my password. Tried to go through a password change, but never received the final email in the process. My original handle was dave_c. Obviously, I was able to get that ID working again.

Yeah, I've found this to be a cool exercise. I've always loved Bach, and grew up hearing great organ sounds every Sunday morning. My primary area of interest is Jazz; I'm thinking of trying to take some of the principles that go into writing a piece like this and use them with extended harmonies. I really like what Lyle Mays did in his piece "The Slink"--very contrapuntal and very, very cool.

That is cool... It like it!

I'm 50/50 on the trills myself. I think they kind of fit, but perhaps they're not as defined as they could be. But I'm not sure that a real pipe organ could be all the defined anyway...