Fugue a4 in 8ET

What's a Fantasia without a Fugue? The 8ET organist requires both! So here it is, a fugue in 4 voices to follow the Fantasia, written over the past few days, rendered in the jeux soundfont and uploaded here:

<http://www.h-pi.com/mp3/Fugue8ET.mp3>

I worked with the narrow-major / wide-minor seconds, using more scalar passages and more suspensions in this piece. The voiceleading could probably be improved in several places... but my brain hurts, I need to sleep and this is good enough for a first version. Enjoy!

Yours,
Aaron Hunt
H-Pi Instruments

That sounds like it's probably a good fugue. I say probably
because I had real difficulty wanting to subject my ear to
the sounds enough to follow everything. Hate to be a prude,
but that level of dissonance is a real challenge for me when
it comes to fugue-level listening. On one hand, it's nice to
have a tuning that's so out there it cannot be mistaken for
normal. But on the other, I'm starting to narrow in on my
place of interest in the spectrum (perhaps).

I'll give it one more go in a few days, though.

-Carl

At 02:49 AM 5/30/2007, you wrote:
>What's a Fantasia without a Fugue? The 8ET organist requires both! So
>here it is, a fugue in 4 voices to follow the Fantasia, written over
>the past few days, rendered in the jeux soundfont and uploaded here:
>
><http://www.h-pi.com/mp3/Fugue8ET.mp3>
>
>I worked with the narrow-major / wide-minor seconds, using more scalar
>passages and more suspensions in this piece. The voiceleading could
>probably be improved in several places... but my brain hurts, I need to
>sleep and this is good enough for a first version. Enjoy!
>
>Yours,
>Aaron Hunt
>H-Pi Instruments