This composition is DUE on TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17.
The composition must be written in Finale Notepad or other composition software. You may use the handout as a place to write a first draft, if needed.
Here are the instructions:
1. The composition should be written in TREBLE CLEF (or violin, if you are choosing an instrument);
2. The first four measures of your composition are the ones provided on the sheet, with the 4 ties added;
3. Your four personally-composed, additional measures should be added AFTER those first four;
4. The four measures you create should include at least TWO ties (that would be a minimum of 4 notes);
5. The composition should end on a D since the piece is in D Major. Rules for good composition are listed below.
Here are nine ways to help you write a good, cohesive melody.
1. Stepwise Motion: using notes that move only by step (few skips or leaps).
2. Contour: creating a musical shape, moving up and down in music. The melody may rise to a certain point, and then come back down.
3. Contrast: using different rhythms in each section. Two measures may be one rhythm, the next two measures would be another rhythm.
4. Rhythmic Repetition: restating the rhythm of a musical idea
5. Melodic Repetition: restating a melodic segment or musical idea.
6. Retrograde: restating a musical idea backwards
7. Augmentation: changing an idea by increasing the time value of all the notes
8. Diminution: changing an idea by decreasing the time value of the notes
9. Riff/Motif: a short musical idea or pattern that appears throughout the composition
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