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110.166Mini-project 1 — 16-Bar Development Section

Take a motif from one of your original pieces.

Requirements:

  • first 4 bars: near transformation
  • next 4: fragmentation
  • next 4: harmonic or tonal displacement
  • last 4: reconstruction into cadence
  • no unrelated new motif
  • one register climax
  • one silence