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Writing a Haydn Menuetto: Step Three
First Four Bars
I have followed the plan in the violins exactly with motifs X and Y transposed to appear in the relevant bars.
I have written an accompanying counter melody to be played in unison in the lower two parts. Notice that in two part writing often uses the third of the chord plus either the root or the fifth so there are no bare fifths in the texture. On a whim, I have doubled at the octave all the way through rather than just on the first note. As suggested in Step Four, you can make this sort of change as you see fit.
Second Four Bars
I have stayed as close as possible to the original in the second four bars.
the first violins, as in the original, hold the tonic note.
the lower two parts are in thirds, and I have also included the minor seventh inflection of the tonic chord in bar 6.
it wasn't practical to use the rhythm of X and the contour of Y so I have just used Y but moved to the second two beats of the bar and preceded by the two crotchets from X
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