Writing a composition experiment – a compound mirror fugue
Writing a composition experiment – a compound mirror fugue

Summary/Abstract: This is the first of a number of studies devoted to the music-theoretic and composition experiment whose aim is to study and write complex fugues (fugues with more than one theme). This article’s emphasis is to write an asymmetric-mirror fugue, with one modulating and one non-modulating theme. Additional condition is to have a binary element in the fugue’s form, i. e., the first part of the piece (rectus) to begin on the tonic key and to end on the dominant one, while in the second part (inversus) – the opposite. This fugue is not a symmetric-mirror one, meaning that the order of the voices’ entering in inversus is not the same as in rectus.

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