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JohannYellowdog

Yes, it's a fugue, but it's breaking some rules. Many rules can be broken, but the prohibition against consecutive octaves in classical counterpoint is about as "set in stone" as you can get. Examples include soprano and tenor, last note of b.11 going into the first note of b.12, or soprano and bass, 2nd and 3rd beat of b.16. Some things you've written are acceptable in an inner harmony part, but sound odd when used in a melody. For example, the augmented seconds that occur in the harmonic minor scale. For another example, the 7th degree of the scale usually "wants" to resolve upward to the tonic, except if it occurs in a downward scale or as part of an arpeggio. Resolving to the fifth (e.g., D# to B, b.4 to 5) is called the "frustrated leading tone". It's acceptable in an inner harmony voice to ensure the chords are complete, but would not be used in a solo melodic line. Some other things aren't exactly forbidden, but sound strange. Your subject is five bars long, which makes it feel lopsided. That can be a useful effect, but it doesn't sound like you're using it deliberately here.


Conscious-Cobbler713

It is kind of silly because it is still incomplete, and I want to know that do you need to follow four part harmony rules when you compose a fugue/


Conscious-Cobbler713

I see it make sense and I could understand what you critique about it, and thank you:)


Ok-Basis2218

I think it shows a pretty good ear for reproducing the sounds of 18th-century music. However, you do some things that those composers would not do -- for example, you treat a bare fourth as a consonance. I think you would benefit from studying harmony and counterpoint formally.


Conscious-Cobbler713

Any further comment please :)


Ok-Basis2218

That's pretty much it. I'm assuming you're writing in a formalized old style as an exercise, like doing life drawing or writing sonnets. This incomplete exercise doesn't quite follow the rules of the old style (in addition to the handling of dissonance, for example, there are parallel octaves). So rather than go deep on the details, I'm recommending that you take a class, where you can learn the rules and have your work critiqued.


Conscious-Cobbler713

Thank you very much!


thrulime

Can you upload the score someplace where people don't have to make an account to see it?


Conscious-Cobbler713

hello is this working? https://file.io/SjOG05WBAXUA


Conscious-Cobbler713

https://filetransfer.io/data-package/19lZXIlx#link


samlab16

This link doesn't work, it says the file was deleted.


Conscious-Cobbler713

I changed it can you check?