Posted by Annonymous on September 09, 19101 at 23:23:28:

In Reply to: Fugue posted by Jay Foster on June 09, 19101 at 21:02:21:

Some Fugues are shorter than four bars. The reason to avoid parallel fourths is not only that they sound bad, but that when inverted (the top and bottom melodies switched) parallel fourths become parallel fifths. Read Johann Joseph Fux's Gradus Ad Parnum (The study of Counterpoint) and do the exercises (the same exercises that Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Brahms, just to name a few, did, although Beethoven used a different addition that used major and minor keys as opposed to modes, popular in the Romantic ere), and visit http://www.interlog.com/~abel/composing.html

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: Some Fugues are shorter than four bars. The reason to avoid parallel fourths is not only that they sound bad, but that when inverted (the top and bottom melodies switched) parallel fourths become parallel fifths. Read Johann Joseph Fux's Gradus Ad Parnum (The study of Counterpoint) and do the exercises (the same exercises that Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Brahms, just to name a few, did, although Beethoven used a different addition that used major and minor keys as opposed to modes, popular in the Romantic ere), and visit http://www.interlog.com/~abel/composing.html

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