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112.179Mini-project 5 — Maximum-to-Minimum Climax
Build:
increasing density
wider register
stronger bass.
Immediately before global peak:
remove everything except melody.
Make that single note the climax.
Then resolve with sparse harmony.
This trains contrast thinking.