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HS: High School
Created on April 4, 2024
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The composeR's Toolbox
Advanced
rESOURCES
Style
Templates
Treble Clef Notes
Modulation
Dynamics
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Bass Clef Notes
Triplets
Tempo
Unit 1 Project
Rhythms
Articulations
Dotted Rhythms
Unit 2 Quiz
Time Signatures
Compound Meter
Instrumentation
Unit 2 Test
Circle of Fifths & Fourths
Mixed Meter
Timbre
Unit 3 Quiz
Major & Minor Scales
Form
Countermelody
Unit 3 Project
Intervals
Major Keys
Modes
Units 4, 5, and 6 compositions are built off of the Unit 3 Project
Chords
Minor Keys
Melody Examples
Musescore Tutorials
Harmonic Areas
Musescore tutorials
Project Help!
Style
Extra!
Getting Started!
Using the Metronome
Tempo
Time Signatures
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Modulation
Articulations
Key Signatures
Creating a Score
Concert Pitch
Dynamics
Melodic Phrasing
Adding Notes
Bring Back Palettes
Repeats
Labelling Sections
Play Panel
More Palettes!
Swing
Saving Your Project
Adding Harmony
Uploading Your Project
Triplets
Copying & Pasting
Adding Measures
Dotted Rhythms
Changing Text
Changing Instruments
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Major Key Signatures & Moods
Enlarge the image to read some descriptive and aesthetic comments about the major key signatures. This may help you decide on a key to evoke a particular emotion, story, or mood in your piece!
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Instruments
Using different instruments can add a lot to a piece of music! Check out the different categories below!
- Any instruments in YELLOW are transposing instruments - you must check "Concert Pitch" to use these instruments!
- Any instruments in PURPLE are only to be used supplementally. They do not include a treble or bass clef. For your grade, you must compose with treble and/or bass clef. You may add these other instruments additionally, but they will not contribute to your grade.
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Plucked Strings 1
Plucked Strings 2
Keyboards
Orchestral Strings
Brass
Percussion
Voice
Woodwinds
Palettes (Left)
RED -SIMPLE METER
BLUE - COMPOUND
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Minor Key Signatures & Moods
Enlarge the image to read some descriptive and aesthetic comments about the minor key signatures. This may help you decide on a key to evoke a particular emotion, story, or mood in your piece! Remember - minor keys are overall more dissonant than major keys. You can use natural minor, harmonic minor, or melodic minor.
Rounded Binary
Form with three sections Can repeat the individual sections A may be varied as A' in the second occurrence
Ternary
Form with two sections Can repeat the individual sections
Binary
Form with two sections utilizing repeats A may be varied as A' in the second occurrence
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Notes are played long, full value
Tenuto
Different pitches are played by connected without rearticulating
Slur
Articulations
Articulations are style markings used to define the way in which each note is played. articulations can be used to make music smoother or more powerful and can be mixed and matched for additional effects
Notes are played short
Notes are played "marked", emphasized and a bit shoarter
Marcato
Staccato
Notes are emphasized, more power at the beginning of the note
Accent
Notes are played really short
Staccatissimo
Contextualize your topic
medium quiet
mezzo piano
quiet
piano
quietest
pianissimo
dynamics
create moments of impact and interest by adding dynamic contrast contrast quiet and loud dynamics OR gradually transition between the two!
loudest
fortissimo
loud
forte
medium loud
mezzo forte
get quieter
diminuendo
get louder