91.106Mini-composition exercise

Write a 32-bar rhythmic-counterpoint étude.

Requirements:

• establish two distinct rhythmic motifs in first 4 bars
• first state them separately
• then overlap them
• one must function as bass material
• one as melody or comping
• one rhythmic canon
• one augmented or diminished imitation
• one 3-against-4 or 3+3+2 layering
• one passage with two different phrase-length cycles
• one synchronized hit used only once before the ending
• one transition achieved by overlapping old and new rhythmic languages
• one layer must disappear for at least 4 bars and later return
• one metric cadence without harmonic cadence
• final four bars must progressively remove rhythmic layers

The piece should sound like:

several rhythmic personalities negotiating one shared pulse.