Project due Friday, December 10th, in class

Your composition(s) should be 1-2 minutes long in total, and contain at least 500 notes.  Compositions will be graded on satisfaction of requirements, completeness and neatness of documentation, and originality.

Each composition must contain the following

• an introduction
• a tihai ending
• an underlying rhythm cycle throughout the composition, with the possible exception of the introduction
• a solo by at least two instruments
• an arithmetic series
• a polyrhythm

• repetition
• variations in density
• complementary patterns
• expansion or contraction of patterns
• translation of patterns

• The composition must maintain the same time signature throughout
• All instruments must end on the same beat, even if the instruments have a rest on that beat.  The ending beat must be the first beat of the measure.
• No two instruments may duplicate the same part for the entire composition.

Example

• A printout of your abcdrums entry
• The printout of the PDF file generated by Convert-o-matic  Change:  A PDF file won't be generated if your composition has more than 4 parts (it probably will).  So instead, e-mail me the ABC source generated by Convert-o-matic.  Just send the file itself--don't convert to a Word document.
• The MIDI file generated by Convert-o-matic, which should be e-mailed to me (rhall@sju.edu)
• A graph paper diagram of your rhythm cycle
• A computation of the density of your rhythm cycle, in notes per cycle and notes per minute