WEEK NO. 2

I WROTE THE REFRAIN.

Yeah, I went with the Rondo.

    I did try to write a sonata, I wrote out the form:

These are just the first pages of each section, I just wrote out the measures for each section making each about 28 measures, the recap would have had a coda making it about 8 measures longer.

I began to write the exposition, which would have a short 4 measures introduction. We are in the key of A Major and the introduction takes us from an Amaj chord voiced 1-5-1-3. The middle Tonic note begins to descend in each measure of the introduction leading us and finally landing on an Amaj7 chord voiced 1-5-7-3.

I should point out that when playing this I was filling out the chord when sustaining long notes—an accompaniment would be in the lower voices (just didn’t notate it at the time) In the final beat of m. 4, we get the pick up to the First Tonal Area (FTA). We get the beginning of the transitional phrase at measure 9, and we go to V/V which is B7 and the Second Tonal Area (STA) would have been in E Major. I could not think of a good theme for the STA, or at least one I was pleased with.

I did, however, come up with the refrain for the Rondo.

It’s in D Minor. During this week I did listen to A LOT of Symphonie Fantastique. Berlioz is a genius. In this refrain, I wanted to evoke a sense of this hopeful darkness we get in the ladder half of the Symphonie Fantastique.

Writing the first half of the melody wasn’t too difficult, it is merely an ascending sale—harmonizing it was straight forward as well, I kept it very guitaristic. The melody repeats and leads us to a deceptive cadence, there we get a sequence before we settle again on the major 6. The progression then goes Bb-C-Bb-C7-F, we go from D Minor to its relative major (F Major)—leaving it at a feeling of contentment.

NEXT WEEK, WE’LL WRITE THE 1ST EPISODE. SEE YA THEN!