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Hello, Thought I would share my latest work on this site. It is baroque... well sort of. It certainly starts that way, but I tend to experiment a little in the development section particularly. I would like to hear what others' think, whether it all hangs together well. I am quite pleased with it, although feel the end could be strengthened somewhat. https://musescore.com/user/69480886/scores/21582616?fbclid=IwY2xjawGWJ6lleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHeNUdrVQGEgy90N_5lHmQbv8ilNVtpJ1AO_uyDPsiUO8hZvIbRE8NEe2vw_aem_tXcb7Kla6S2gw7gwODAioA

I'm admittedly not as familiar with the movement as you are and so can't really tell just by listening to this updated version what changes you might have made. There's definitely places in the movement where development takes place and places where one would expect an exposition of themes, with a typical ostinato vamp preceding the entrance of the thematic material. But the themes themselves aren't given enough breathing room and space to shine and to let them become established in the listeners mind from my perspective. So from my perspective the movement is definitely motivically driven, but thematically diffuse, but I do understand now that that is the way you intended to write the piece. I just think that it could be much more lucid and musically significant to your listeners (or at least to myself as the listener) if you took care to exposit the themes first to make them memorable to your audience which would make your development of those themes that much more interesting and exciting! Thanks for sharing.

I've made some revisions to the first movement, clarifying the orchestration and form to hopefully make what the movement is striving for a bit clearer. @PeterthePapercomPoser let me know what you think!

Hi @Fugax Contrapunctus I like the catchy subject in this fugue! I don't personally think the modulation to A major is that surprising or unprepared. Since you first arrived in A minor which is the relative minor of C and hence closely related I didn't find it that sudden to then go to A major and even F# minor. Besides, in Bartok's Axis System, C, Eb, F#, and A are all tonic functions as applied to this piece. I like how you include a full re-exposition in this fugue. The ending however, I felt like could have been better prepared by starting the ritardando a little earlier. Thanks for sharing!