ASSIGNMENTS

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CREATE A MOOD

Composition A
Writing a Great Melody

Composition B
Retrograde and Inversion

Composition C
Renaissance Music Compositions

Composition D
Ground Bass

Composition E
Arrangement Project 

Composition F
Stylistic Techniques Project

Composition G
Indian Raga Composition Project

Composition H
Twelve Tone Composition Project

Composition I
Aleatoric Random Composition Project 
al la John Cage

Composition J
Ostinato Composition

Composition K
Harmonic Sequence

Composition L
Cycle of 5th and Key Changes



TIPS FOR COMPOSERS

The Rule of Three and Music 
- THIS IS SO IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER - composition technique
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Composition and Forms

Music Composition and Theory by Rowy

Composition Assessment

Resources
What is Melody - part one, theme, motive, counterpoint
 What is Melody - part two, scales and intervals, contours, steps, skips, leaps
Harmony - Guide to Proper Voice Leading 
“MELODY” COMPOSITION
Bach Cadences - 4 part writing - go to the “Guide and         Resources” page and click on “download all the resources”.  This will     give you everything you need for this site.
Renaissance Gregorian Chant and Sacred Music
Bach’s Puzzle Canon Workshop
SIBELIUS Academy -Composing
***Learn how to make Species Counterpoint - also Cantus Firmus, Gregorian Chant and Modes, Exercises 
Counterpoint - Wikipedia
Music Composition Resource
Ground Bass - Sequence - Pachelbel’s Canon
Canon’s of Musical Offering - Sojurn, Timothy Smith
Anatomy of a Fugue - Interactive
Art of the Fugue - Bach - Contrapunctus, Canon
How to Analyze a Fugue
Study Musical Forms - Thinkquest - The Symphony interactive
ARRANGING MUSIC
12 Tone Row - Wikipedia
12 Tone Row - Kenneth R. Rumery  Part One,   Part Two
The Process of Score Composition 
Part 1    Part 2    Part 3    Part 4
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