I rarely compose imitative pieces, but I got a book from the juilliard library on writing counterpoint in the style of Bach, so I spent a good chunk of today writing a 2 voice harpsichord piece which attempts to do that. The mp3 is here and the score is here. the mp3 is just sibelius playback, which actually isn’t terrible for pieces like this.

this was pretty interesting to write in that I had to make a lot of choices I would not have usually made to try and stay with the style of the piece. the modulation from C major to G major strikes me as very baroque, it’s the first time I have written a tune with a modulation of a fifth like that. there is also a brief foray into A minor in the first half of the tune. once I was in G, I found it trickier than I thought to get back to C.