Composition

Composition is a full contact sport.  Don't just read this material.  WRITE!!  Write bad stuff.  Write good stuff.  Start small - only a phrase.  Get some music writing software.  Enter your composition and play it back to hear your composition. 

Creating Melody from Words

Variations - On Top of Old Smokey

On Top of Old Smokey in All Modes

Creating Melody from Contour Lines

Composition on Commission I

Composition on Commission II

Composition from Harmonic Progression

Examples of Motives

Sunset on Big Gut

South Wind Waltz - Air

Banks of the Scamander

Common Ground Waltz

Spring Tide on the Tump

The Rat and the Raven

Accomac Roots

Sundial