Compositional Features

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These are the building blocks with which the composer builds up the melody.

Features include:

  • Inversion of a Musical Idea
    • Turning a musical idea upside down
  • Antiphony
    • Call and Response between instruments
  • Canon
    • Imitation at a fixed distance
  • Imitation
    • One instrument copying exactly another one
  • Modulation
    • Changing Keys
  • Retrograde of a Musical Idea
    • Turning a musical idea backwards
  • Stretto
    • Overlapping the diferrent entries of a theme
  • Unison
    • All instruments play the same thing
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