- Hi, my name is Fatima and I am a 7th grade student at Franklin Classical Middle School.
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To create the music project (part 1), I had to understand the concept of major and minor scales and triads based on the tonic of the scale. I used the major and minor scales based on the tonic D. I figured out the scales by using the major and minor scale formulas. The major scale formulas is (WWH)W(WWH). The minor scale formula is (WHW)W(HWW).
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For the major melody, I used the major D scale which included two sharps (F and C). I play in alto clef however, I had to put the notes in treble clef. The same process occurred in the minor melody in the minor D scale but this scale had one flat (B flat). To create the melody, I added random notes that ascend and descend in the order of the scale. I listened to the notes to try and figure out which notes sounded bad and which notes sounded good.
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For this part of the project, i had to take the melody i originally created in Project Part 2 and incorporated triads as the harmony to make it sound like an actual song. The triads were in bass clef, which are lower sounding notes, which complemented the higher sounding notes in the melody. I believe that my song sounded pretty great.
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