Composing With Constraints 5-8
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).