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75.99Mini-composition exercise
Write 32 bars over a relatively simple harmonic framework, where melodic interval design creates most of the development.
Requirements:
- first 8 bars mostly stepwise
- one recurring fourth+step motif
- one sixth-based lyrical phrase
- one seventh or ninth used as dramatic structural leap
- one scalar phrase transformed only by octave displacement
- one guide-tone target reached by a wide leap
- one side-slipped intervallic motif
- one triad-pair-derived intervallic phrase
- one pentatonic-derived intervallic phrase
- widest register at the climax
- final 4 bars contract into mostly steps
The harmony should remain simple enough that contour is clearly the main event.