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103.166Conceptual exercise from “The Bare Necessities”

Extract only abstract principles:

  • playful rhythmic identity
  • call-response
  • bass personality
  • comic pauses
  • one exaggerated contrasting section
  • false ending

Create a completely original tune using those principles.

This is how repertoire study becomes compositional vocabulary.