Example of division of a figure

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As I cannot seem to write anything that I like well enough to finish off, I've been doing some exercises.

The following is an expansion of the ancient La Folia pattern by a method similar to making divisions.

I. Two measures: the theme as used by Corelli and others.

II. Two measures: change the theme to push the high point towards the back.

III. Eight measures: moved from quarter-notes to whole-notes (crotchets to semi-breves) and added a stereotyped tango-habanera accompaniment.

IV. Eight measures: (first real expansion of melody) added notes on the third beat a third above the main note, measures 1,3, third below in measure 7. Measures 5 gets a second and measure 6 gets a drop of a fourth. Measure 8's note is dropped a third. The melody is still an arch shape.

V. Eight measures: neighboring+passing note figure used to connect first and third beats of measures 1,3,7; different figure for measure 5. A turn added on the fourth beat of measures 1,3,5,7.

VI: Eight measures: minor rhythmic modifications and a couple of notes added in measure 8.

The idea was to have sort of an AABA' kind of structure over a Folia base. I chose La Folia so as to have some circular harmonic motion ending on the dominant (which makes it easy to couple these together.) Circle-of-fifths patterns also work as do others like the one in Pachbel's canon (and other pieces.) Maybe I'll expand this into an entire piece later.

http://www.mediamax.com/sudoplatov/Hosted/test811zz.MUS

http://www.mediamax.com/sudoplatov/Hosted/test811zz.pdf

(Couldn't attach so here are links.)