FF6 WIP: Fuga Kefka

[BardicKnowledge]

I wrote a fugue using Kefka's theme as the subject (link here). I don't think it's long enough to stand alone as a remix, but I feel it's a good start. I will either write a toccata before it, or extend the coda into the chord sequence of Dancing Mad before returning to the fugue to close.

In any case, let me know what you think -- especially you music theory people out there. I'm out of town for a while, but will be back in a week to check messages and advice. Oh, and while there's very little production work done, it's playing back through the GPO/Kontakt player in Finale 2008.

[Sil]

Sounds good, lots of imitation. The only discrepancy I can hear that makes it sound un-Bach-like is the lack of secondary dominants and other chromatic chords, so it's very modal. For example, the retransition to the dominant F minor at 0:40 sounds out of place because there was no C7 chord, just a passing E natural over an A. Other than that it's really intricately arranged. Good work.

Did you get the title from my piece?

[Tensei]

Arrangement is definitely good but IMO it could do with a bit more humanization, it still feels a bit rigid (though this might be because of the sample quality rather than the sequencing). You're lucky rubato's and the like weren't all that popular yet back then

The reverb feels..weird, it sounds like you selected a room reverb with 100% wet ratio, I think it could stand to be a bit drier.