For this project, you will compose your own melody and
create an accompaniment for it.
Following are the given parameters for the melody:
- It must be 8-16 measures long.
- You can use the meter of your choice.
- It can be based on one of the melodies you composed for
an earlier project, or be completely new.
- The melody needs to be tonal--based on either the major
or minor scale of your choice.
- Your melody needs to end on tonic.
- All notes of your melody need to be accounted for--either
as a member of the accompanying chord, or a nonharmonic
tone.
Following are the given parameters for the accompaniment:
- You may use any diatonic (within the scale) triad or 7th
chord, in root position or in inversion.
- Primary triads will probably dominate your accompaniment,
but at least one chord that is not a primary triad must
be used.
- At least one 7th chord must be used. (The dominant 7th
is the most commonly used.)
- Your last two chords should be dominant to tonic.
- Your accompaniment cannot consist of simple block chords
as it was in Project C. You may use one of the accompanimental
patterns found in Lesson 12, Topic 5 ("Accompanimental
Patterns"), or you can create your own (better yet!).
Keep in mind that the patterns provided in Lesson 12 include
only the primary chords. You need to add at least one additional
chord to your accompaniment.
Timbre
The instrumentation you use for this project is entirely
up to you. It can be written for solo piano or for an ensemble
of instruments (perhaps even including percussion). The melody
could be written on a single staff, or perhaps written for
several instruments. The same is true of the accompaniment. |
When you have completed this project, save
it as a Finale NotePad file and send it to the instructor
as an e-mail attachment. Name each file by the project name
and your name. Include both your first and
last names with your last name first. Please follow the example
for uppercase/lowercase letters:
Example: CPD LastFirst
Your instructor may wish for you to print your project and
submit a hard copy. |