My sonata fugue and 4 part chorale

[rachmaninoff_forever]

The fugue sucks, the 4 part chorale is boring, and the sonata is freaking difficult to play.

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Damn it!!!

[j_menz]

I'm struggling to see that the "fugue" is a fugue - lots of "entrances" but no expositions or development. And it really should start on the tonic.

The chorale does lack a certain wow factor, but lots do.  I get the feeling your heart wasn't really in that one. I tried to find parallel fifths in it btw. Luck (or good management) was with you. 

The sonata has some really good bits in it (and the reworked "fugue" excerpt is much more effective there), though it also has bits that seem to lack direction.  Acres of long rapid arps are often the refuge of the desperate. Sibelius doesn't, I think, do a good job on them, so they may be better under real hands.

Your attraction to Dm is eccentric, I must say.

Oh and ON A MAC? 

[rachmaninoff_forever]

I'm struggling to see that the "fugue" is a fugue - lots of "entrances" but no expositions or development. And it really should start on the tonic.

The chorale does lack a certain wow factor, but lots do.  I get the feeling your heart wasn't really in that one. I tried to find parallel fifths in it btw. Luck (or good management) was with you. 

The sonata has some really good bits in it (and the reworked "fugue" excerpt is much more effective there), though it also has bits that seem to lack direction.  Acres of long rapid arps are often the refuge of the desperate. Sibelius doesn't, I think, do a good job on them, so they may be better under real hands.

Your attraction to Dm is eccentric, I must say.

Oh and ON A MAC? 

The fugue does has an exposition and development.

This was all for music theory class.

The one that I actually cared about was the sonata.  But still we had a due date.

And for the fugue, I tried to stray away from Bach as far as possible.

Macs suck!!!

What do you use for PC?

[rachmaninoff_forever]

I'm struggling to see that the "fugue" is a fugue - lots of "entrances" but no expositions or development. And it really should start on the tonic.

The chorale does lack a certain wow factor, but lots do.  I get the feeling your heart wasn't really in that one. I tried to find parallel fifths in it btw. Luck (or good management) was with you. 

The sonata has some really good bits in it (and the reworked "fugue" excerpt is much more effective there), though it also has bits that seem to lack direction.  Acres of long rapid arps are often the refuge of the desperate. Sibelius doesn't, I think, do a good job on them, so they may be better under real hands.

Your attraction to Dm is eccentric, I must say.

Oh and ON A MAC? 

And I love D minor...

[j_menz]

The fugue does has an exposition and development.
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And for the fugue, I tried to stray away from Bach as far as possible.

I'm struggling to see either, I must say.  I'm quite familiar with non-Bach fugues, by the way.  If you're interested I can point you at some modern examples to give you ideas.

The one that I actually cared about was the sonata.  But still we had a due date.

The bits that were good reflect that. Apart from its class assignment value, you should revisit it and fix up/redo the rushed bits. It has potential.

Macs suck!!!
What do you use for PC?

Windows 7.  I'm more surprised you didn't ask how I knew the Mac thing.

And I love D minor...

Bleah!!! It could be worse, but Cm is the key of champions.

[cabbynum]

Bleah!!! It could be worse, but Cm is the key of champions.

Cm is number 1 (glad someone agrees, people in my music theory class found it stupid that I had a favorite key signature, if only the knew I have them all rated and for what I think they can be used best for)
Closely followed by Gm
And then Em

Thought I'd but in my two cents

[furtwaengler]

Haha, I read the comments before listening and some though this is totally gonna be Rachmaninov's 1st sonata. And I listen? Well, wouldn't Valentina be proud?  

Also the separate statements brought me to stories Richter told of Prokofiev's hatred for Rachmaninov's music, which to Richter's mind had everything to do with Rachmaninov's real influence on Prokofiev's music. "Listen to the Etudes Tableaux!"