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65.93Mini-composition exercise
Write 32 bars from one three-note motif.
Requirements:
- exact statement
- sequence
- fragmentation
- inversion or contour reversal
- augmentation
- diminution
- displacement
- fixed-pitch reharmonization over at least three bass notes
- functional transposition through at least three chords
- one section where motif is absent
- transformed return
- final exact original motif
Restriction:
You may introduce no second primary melodic idea.
If the 32 bars remain interesting, you have understood motivic development.