After everything was complete, I had to label all the non-chord tones, cadences, and chords that I had used. Reading the instructions, I labeled the chords, the non-chord tones, dynamics, tempo-changes, and other things I added to my music. But, I was unable to upload it because one of my clefs were muted, and I had to wait until music class to solve it as I had completed the entire composition rather late at night. After I had fixed my technical difficulties, the composition was complete.

Since the melodic part was complete, I started with the clarinet part of the song. I kept it in treble clef since the instrument list did not provide bass clarinet. I tested multiple chords, and used them to harmonize with the piano part. I didn’t have perfect cadences and plagals on the clarinet, because I did them on the piano part. This stage took a rather long time because there was a lot of confusion between the auto-transpose on Finale and the transposing pitch. But, in the end, I was able to put in chords that matched with the piano section.

Today I started with the treble clef (melody) of the song. I attempted to add as many non-chord tones in the song to complete the requirements of the song, and to create a melody then add chords at the very end to make the song sound as lively as possible. With the melody in place, I tried to find 1-3-5 chords (eg: CEG) and octaves to make the song sound as perfect as possible. I also had to take into account cadences for the end of every 4 bars since it was implemented into the instructions.

Until today, I still haven’t really started my music composition. I was looking at the instructions, and searching up words I did not understand. Examples would be plagal, cadences, RET, ANT, etc… After learning more about them and bookmarking some helpful websites, I went to the piano to find some chords that worked well. I decided on my two instruments: the piano and the clarinet. I was hoping that the clarinet would sound bass-like and would provide a nice bass clef and accompaniment to the piano melody. Afterwards, I decided on my key signature and further experimented with some chords using the piano. I plan on commencing the final product the next day or during the next class.

An escape tone, is extremely similar to an unaccented neighbour tone. Firstly, we would start off with a note, and naturally, the note would go up by one tone. Afterwards, the next note, instead of dropping by one tone, will drop by two tones. This is called a skip. When put into context, it would be something like C, D, B(in C Major).

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