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Composer's Toolbox

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

DOWNLOAD THE TEMPLATE, ADD YOUR NOTES/COMPOSITION, UPLOAD IN EDIO

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

Download Musescore!

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

Back

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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

Click note, add tempo, double click to change, type in box
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

crescendo

Triplets

Three notes fitting in the space of two!Ctrl + 3 keyboard shortcut to createtriplets in Musescore OR Use tuplet tool
Mixing groupings of two and three notes creates hemiola