Composing With Constraints 5-8

Written By Rebecca Hass

Here’s the next set of experiments using the prompts from Jorge Variego's book Composing with Constraints: 100 Practical Exercises in Music Composition, using various sets of parameters limiting different types of musical elements!

Exercise 5: Compose a melody for solo trumpet using a given scale and applying simple transformations to it.

 

Exercise 6: Compose a melody for solo vibraphone using a given ordered scale and rhythmic structure.

 

Exercise 7: Compose a melody for solo French horn using concatenated major and minor triads.

 

Exercise 8: Compose a melody for solo bass clarinet using concatenated triads (major, minor, augmented, or diminished).

Rebecca Hass

Pianist and composer

http://www.rebeccahass.com
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