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85.128Mini-arrangement project
Create a complete 64–96 bar solo-piano arrangement architecture.
Requirements:
- intro of 2–8 bars
- intro must derive from existing melodic/rhythmic/harmonic material
- first melody statement relatively restrained
- one turnaround that clearly launches another section
- one interlude where the main melody disappears
- interlude must transform previously heard material
- one vamp with a deliberately designed exit
- at least one breakdown
- one modulation integrated into either interlude, turnaround, or repeated chorus
- one final melody return with changed orchestration
- one tag with at least three transformations
- one false ending or deliberately withheld final cadence
- one coda recalling the intro
- final texture must be consciously chosen as either maximal or minimal—not accidentally somewhere in between
Before writing exact voicings, make the form map first.