Bill Troxler
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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
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