76.109Mini-composition exercise

Write a 32-bar improvised-style solo étude.

Requirements:

• no phrase begins on beat 1 during first 8 bars
• one phrase crosses at least three chord boundaries
• one cadence functions as a comma
• one later cadence functions as a period
• one antecedent/consequent pair
• one phrase extension
• one truncated motif
• one elided phrase where ending and beginning overlap
• one target note reserved until bar 24 or later
• one phrase begins before a chorus/section boundary and continues through it
• climax occurs before the final phrase
• last four bars simplify dramatically

The étude should sound like a narrative, not a catalog of devices.