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Composition Task 4
Aleatoric and Extended Techniques
'Extend' your composition to be 2 minutes long, with some extended techniques and aleatoric aspects.
Step 1
What type of aleatoricism would suit from your composition?
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Set the pitches, but leave the duration and order of playing open.
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Set the rhythm, but leave the pitches open.
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Create cells of musical material, but leave order of playing them open.
Step 2
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In your Sibelius project, notate the chosen aleatoric section appropriately.
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Set pitch, free rhythm and order:
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Set rhythm, free pitch
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Set musical cells, free order.
Step 3
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Choose extended techniques appropriate for the instruments in your composition.
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Notate your extended techniques using appropriate notation.
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