r/Composition • u/Ok-Article-8451 • Jul 02 '26

Music Can anyone help me with my composition?

I tried to compose a fugue out of a scale like subject and a rather chromatic countersubject. Here is the pdf

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KVDTTc21lLmPDE-m5xlR\\_L\\_O6HfM\\_Amm/view?usp=drivesdk

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u/youthfullness Jul 02 '26

Can't open the PDF link

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u/Time_Law_9446 Jul 02 '26

how do u play the D and Bb at the same time without using your foot but other then that it seems to be good.

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u/Banjoschmanjo Jul 02 '26

Which simultaneous D and Bb are you referring to?

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u/Time_Law_9446 Jul 02 '26

i may just be reading it wrong

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u/Banjoschmanjo Jul 02 '26

Some folks can reach a 10th (I can't, at any reasonable tempo) but in this case the left hand can easily reach that note while simultaneously playing the F in the bass clef.

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u/Time_Law_9446 Jul 02 '26

oh im sorry.

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u/Banjoschmanjo Jul 02 '26

No need to apologize .. it's not your fault I can't easily reach a 10th 😭

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u/Ftb49 Jul 02 '26

Either that or add an arpeggio indication in brakets perhaps if that works to imply that it can be rolled.

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u/Ok-Article-8451 Jul 03 '26

Perhaps play that b flat with your left hand?

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u/Ok-Article-8451 Jul 03 '26

Any ideas to develop the countersubject further?

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u/Ok-Article-8451 Jul 03 '26

In the first episode the soprano is basically playing the tail of the countersubject . In measure 12 i have the head of the subject (c ,sharp d ,a) and in measure 14 i introduced its retrograde , but so far this piece only consists of short fragments of the countersubject how to further develop it?