Structuring variations

Now it’s your turn!

Make a 1 minute arrangement (or longer) of "Happy birthday" in C major, using some of the concepts learnt in chapter 1, following the below criteria

  • The melody can be looser but still needs to be recognisable
  • You can use any meter you like
  • You can write additional material to connect sections, create an intro/outro as long as it is still derivative from the original melody

Additionally the arrangement should feature all of the below techniques:

  1. Simple diatonic substitutions of any kind
  2. Non diatonic substitutions and borrowed chords for any key
  3. One modulation to any key


(Make sure to post on Discord if you want to get feedback from Mattia and other students)

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