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112.178Mini-project 4 — Hidden Orchestra

Assign four imagined instruments:

  1. bass
  2. melody
  3. inner line
  4. rhythmic/background layer

Write 16 bars.

Every four bars:

foreground instrument changes.

At no point should all four demand attention equally.