This arose one evening at a Dartington summer school when three of us were left with nothing much to do so we decided just to write a two or three part fugue, see how we got on.
This was my effort.
A Little fugue-050612 - 160.mp3
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Very enjoyable piece! I really like the subject, it feels very playful and bouncy.
I enjoyed this as well. I like your harmonic movement. (I do remember this from sometime back when you had posted, so it retained a presence in my memory!)
Very nice! I remember hearing this a long time ago on the old version of this forum. Quirky and lighthearted, lots of fun to listen to. I liked it very much, and still do. Thanks for posting it again!
the weird and wonderful modulations early on make this highly entertaining in a way more conventional fugues are, to my untrained ears, not
May I be forgiven just doing a single reply, please? Otherwise identical individual replies build up the thread unnecessarily!
Just to say thank you all for these most encouraging comments and for listening.
It looks like I did submit the piece in the earlier forum manifestation, I can't remember. Problem is, there's no easy way of checking. I suppose it takes an inspiration to do something like this piece (as I normally write more chromatically) in this case an evening with a couple of others hoping to compose at least something on a composers' summer school.
Again, many thanks.