Music Theory and Composition - Lesson Two

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Here is another example of the previous lesson without personal motif explanations. In this composition I am using the all the white notes on the piano.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  







When you are ready then it is time for you to start playing with motifs made from your pitch approximations, rhythmic ideas and tone rows and then start composing your own music. Once you have a manuscript filled with pitch approximations and rhythmic ideas you can start dropping in notes from you tone row using up the notes in such a way as to maintain the integrity of your schematic and emotions while using the row notes evenly throughout the composition.