Tutorial No.9. Assemble a ternary form melody, set the harmony, then generate an accompaniment

In this tutorials we shall utilize the  fragment list from tutorial No 5, but we shall only use the violin melody fragments,  change this to a clarinet, then write out the harmony, and generate a piano accompaniment in the style of a Chopin   waltz.
  1. Open the Musical Discovery Composing Board from the main MENU :-
    Create ->  Compositions -> Composing Board.
  2. Click the drop-down box labeled Fragment Lists at the top of the screen, and select Tutorial 5 - Ternary Form. You should see 9 fragment icons at the foot of the screen
  3. Assemble the top violin melody part onto the top row of the grid, by dragging the icons for the violin fragments onto it. The ternary form for this piece will be A A B A2, so  drag the Theme A icon twice, into the first and second squares. Then drag theme B, lastly drag theme A2
  4. Click the orange button Assemble fragments,  then hit the play button to listen to the melody of this piece.
  5. In order to change the instrument to a clarinet, go to the main MENU  Create -> Compositions -> Bulk Changes to Tunes
  6. Under the bottom red heading Bulk Parameter Changes, check Change Instrument  and select clarinet from the drop-down box below this. Hit the pink button Perform Bulk Changes, then click the play button to listen. You should hear the melody played on a clarinet.
  7. Before you can generate an accompaniment, you need to write in the chords, so go to the main MENU Create -> Accompaniments.  If you are confident about harmony and cadences, fill in the chord names as you see fit. If you want a suggestion, try the following sequence:-

Here are suggested chords for the 8 bars of theme A, which starts in A major and modulates to E major. This theme is repeated, so the chords for bars 9-16 will need to be the same again.

Bar 1 2 3 4 5 5 6 6 7 8
Beat 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 3 1 1
Chord A E F#m E A D C#m D B7 E
Bass   G#           F#    

Here are suggested chords for the middle section,  the 8 bars of theme B.

Bar 17 18 19 19 20 20 21 21 22 23 23 24 24
Beat 1 1 1 3 F#m 3 1 3 2 1 3 1 3
Chord D A Bm C#7   A D A Bm F#m Bm E E
Bass           C#   C#     D   G#

Lastly here are suggested chords for theme A2, which starts out the same as theme A, but stays in the home key of A major, and ends on a 6:4 cadence leading to the final tonic chord of A major in the last bar.

Bar 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32
Beat 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Chord A E F#m E D A E7 A
Bass   G#     F# E    

Click the green button Select Accompaniment Pattern at top left of the screen. In the drop-down box labeled Upper Accompaniment Instrument, at left of screen, select piano. Then click on the Chopin Waltz/Nocturne button in the first column of patterns. Click on the Play button to hear your results.