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43.85Mini-composition exercise
Write a 24-bar piece.
Structure:
- 8 bars 9/8, grouped 2+2+2+3
- 8 bars 4/4
- 8 bars return to 9/8
Requirements:
- one main riff
- one 3+3+3 cross-grouping passage
- one full-bar silence
- one chord anticipation from final 3-group into next bar
- same melodic motif recognizable in both meters
- no more than three harmonic roots
The goal is metric architecture.