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112.176Mini-project 2 — Texture-First Composition
Write 24 bars where:
harmonic vocabulary is deliberately simple.
Form must be created primarily through:
- layer count
- register
- foreground rotation
- articulation
- density
- resonance
Requirements:
- one 8-bar section without bass
- one 4-bar section with only two voices
- one maximum-density event
- one complete bar of silence
- one return to opening texture