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125.279Apply to “Happy Birthday” as a parallel capstone

If you want a familiar control experiment, create:

3-minute arrangement.

Possible form:

Intro Theme A Variation 1 Interlude Variation 2 Climax Final theme Coda.

Because tune itself is known:

you can focus on arrangement architecture.