Michaelyus

OK, I've composed this over the last 2 days (1.5 hrs each) but I haven't been on the forum nor seen the crash course, so I'm going on what little of counterpoint I know already. To be honest, after the exposition I tried to "explore tonal space" by just outlining the tonalities. So I haven't used much of the subject except to "comment" on the progression of the music. YC_fug_1.mid

OK, thank you both for the replies. That strange pause - well, I don't think it should be filled in, but I did change it slightly. There was a 2nd inversion chord somewhere that I fixed. And I agree thst the harmonic rhythm changed too quickly; but should I re-scan these "secondary dominants" as I harmonised them to "appogiaturas".

I have a little melody: wt3.MID I have a string accompaniment: Tango.mid But there is something dubious about this harmony. I cannot figure out what exactly it is. Maybe it's not even an issue of my harmony per se but chord spacing instead - I need to check that. Someone direct me to point(s) that they find. Melody_in_Question.mid Questionable_Harmony.mid

Thank you all for your comments. It appears as though I need to start form scratch... What I really need to work out is to structure my fugue, but how do I do that?

Yes, my bass entry is wrong. But the rest, they are all acceptable - aren't they? Middle entries of the subject may be on any note within the key - may they not? Sorry, I don't know how to make it meaningful - do you mean that I should add a sequence or free counterpoint before the bass? Fuga_sol_minore.MUS

The midi: Fuga_in_sol_minore.mid

Well, I know next to nothing about composition. But I can tell you that this does seem to be very gigue-like in its 6/8 time and very dance-like rhythm. As for a form; gigues are normally two-reprise binary forms, and as with many other dances, this is all it really needs to be "formally".

This took me about a week. To be fair, it is no masterpiece of a fugue, it relies on little moments of "tunefulness". My counterpoint requires clean-up, so any useful tips I'd be glad to take on. Sorry for not having a midi, I'll try and come up with one. Fuga_sol_minore.MUS

Music is intimately related to mathematics. E.g.: the nature of sound the nature of timbre the nature of the octave the notion of tonality the intricacies of temperament numerology and symbolism the proportionality of instrument resonating bodies There are many more. However, people do not think consciously think of mathematics in music. The relationship is there though. For examples of the Golden Mean in music: http://www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Kno...nArt.html#music As for the Golden Mean, my pet theory is that it is a nice balance between the familiar and the unfamiliar. It is not the exact number of beauty though. Anything around 1.6 will be averaged out to 1.6 by statisticians. So I do not think the Golden Mean should be heralded as a foundation block for music. It may be there, but it is no more than the unconscious desire to balance contrast/variety and repetition/familiarity.

This orchestral pastiche (of melodies by (J.S.) Bach, Mozart and one Beethoven melody), as the title suggests ("defragmentendum" being a made-up Latin word for "to be defragmented"), needs some serious help in its transitions. I would like to read your comments on it and its many improvements to-be-done. Pasticcio_Defragmentendum.mid