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Composing for Violin

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  • 16-10-2015 9:26pm
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    ramonarosie
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    Hi I'm wondering if anyone can help me! Basically I've been given an assignment to do for college, a one minute composition for the violin but our lecturer has literally told us nothing about how to go abut it! He mentioned something that we can only use four pitches so does that mean literally four notes? Could we play a D and the a D an octave higher? I'm so so confused! Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!


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    ramonarosie wrote: »
    Hi I'm wondering if anyone can help me! Basically I've been given an assignment to do for college, a one minute composition for the violin but our lecturer has literally told us nothing about how to go abut it! He mentioned something that we can only use four pitches so does that mean literally four notes? Could we play a D and the a D an octave higher? I'm so so confused! Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

    It's probably a bit late to reply now, and I'm not expert, but yeah, that's exactly how I understand it. According to Google, pitch is more or less equal to frequency, so in your case high D and middle D would count as 2 separate notes. It should be doable over a minute.

    EDIT: Consider whether they NEED to be consecutive or not. That may open some melodic doors.


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