77.97Mini-composition exercise

Write a 32-bar solo étude over a moderately active jazz progression.

Requirements:

• identify no more than 8 structural harmonic landmarks
• at least one five-chord passage reduced to a single guide-tone path
• one secondary dominant treated as an arrow toward its destination
• one passing diminished receiving only a brief melodic acknowledgment
• one tritone-sub dominant treated as part of the same larger dominant region
• one common-tone line surviving three chords
• one temporary tonicization
• one motif continuing through that tonicization
• one phrase that ignores an intermediate tonic cadence
• one passage where altered tension appears only at the most important dominant
• one intentional two-bar silence followed by recovery at the next landmark
• final phrase planned from its destination backward

The étude should feel easier to navigate after reduction than the chord chart initially suggests.