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29.95Your first polyphonic arrangement

Take an 8-bar melody.

Rules:

  • melody always audible
  • bass has a recognizable contour
  • one inner voice appears only during long melody notes
  • no more than three voices most of the time
  • one contrary-motion passage
  • one suspension
  • one imitative phrase

This will teach far more than filling every chord with six notes.