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Pastoral

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Pastoral

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Pastoral

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1 – To express the beauty of nature in your music, use lush strings to provide the harmony and delicate woodwinds to play the melody. Using the full-bodied tone of the clarinet for the melody helps to balance the richness of the strings.

2 –  For the harmony, use a lush chord structure such as the Major 6/9 chord with a Major 7th. This chord structure can be used throughout the piece by simply modulating to different keys. In the key of F major, start with the F note an octave and a half below Middle C. Immediately above that F, add a C, and then an A. Above that A, add the notes D, G, C and E.  Modulating this chord structure down a whole step, and then back up again, works very well.

3 – After all your chord changes have been chosen, compose a melody using only the notes from the harmony. Make the rhythm of the melody a combination of slow and fast moving notes. This mirrors the duality of nature – it is both restful and active. To continue this element of duality, place pauses in the melody. These pauses can be filled with ascending and descending violin lines played in bowed tremolo fashion. This will allow one group of instruments to remain active while another group rests.

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