Post by jazzking on Mar 1, 2006 21:49:34 GMT
Hi. Don't know if this will help much, but what happens to you when putting your composition together is a really common problem! Don't sweat, here are a few breif tips, we could do this all night... Modulation, after the statement of your theme I expect you move to a development before the recapitulation period of your piece. During the development section, try using dim sevenths behind your theme to modulate the sense of key to the listener, I don't mean just to the relative major or minor, but experiment a little. Next changes of mood by using a few suspensions on say, the 9th to resolve, but to the relative minor, creating interesting cadences. Say your theme wants to naturally fall to the tonic during the development section, then change the underlying chord base, but a warning, do this too much and it can be wearing on the ear, you do need to resolve at some point. Therefore your piece has a built in interesting change in the middle. The back end of a piece is the simple part, like riding a cycle downhill. Don't let it run away with you, and why not suprise everyone, if your piece is in a minor key end with tierce de picade. (in the major). Avoid too many repeats, counterpoint, contrapuntal, mirror effects for example during the piece. Imagine the music as if you were writing an essay for English Language. The book is more interesting when something suprising happens. YOU make that happen, but it is not the melody, or counter melody alonr. Try using 6ths instead of major 3rds, think of the tones of the instrumentation and the intervals. Consider using a pedal bass to make tension in the development section, I bet you won't keep resolving the piece then! Anyway, good luck.