96.152Mini-composition exercise

Create an 8-bar melody first, with no planned chords.

Requirements:

• mostly diatonic melody
• one long non-triad scale degree
• one chromatic approach note
• one phrase ending on tonic
• one phrase ending away from tonic
• one sustained note lasting at least a bar

Then harmonize it five times:

Version 1

tonic pedal only.

Version 2

I-IV-V.

Version 3

I-vi-ii-IV-V family.

Version 4

bass-line-first reharmonization.

Version 5

jazzier version with secondary dominant/borrowed/tritone color.

The goal is to hear:

one melody does not possess one correct chord progression.

It contains a field of harmonic possibilities.