Another way to spread the phrase across the instrumentation would be to have
the two instruments take turns “soloing,” as shown in Figures 7-8 and 7-9.Spicing It Up by Varying the Phrase ............................................................
If you were a minstrel living in the Middle Ages, the information provided so
far in this chapter would probably be all you would need to know to make
your compositions minimally palatable to an audience. However, modern
audiences want more from a composition than the same musical motifs and
phrases repeated over and over.&b 4
(^4) ∑ ∑ ∑
œ
̇ œ# œ œ œ
œ œ ̇#.
Œ
Figure 7-9:
... And
instrument
number
two picks
up where
instrument
number one
leaves off.
&b 4
4
œ̇ œ# œ œ œ
œ œ ̇#. œœ̇ Ó ∑ ∑
Figure 7-8:
Instrument
number one
plays the
phrase while
instrument
number two
rests...&b 4
(^4) ∑
œ
̇ œ# œ œ œ
œ œ ̇#.
Œ∑ ∑
Figure 7-7:
... While
instrument
number two
plays this
melody.
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