The Nightfly

Steve,

It seems like I need to be more specific on what I ask from you to do. For now, your work shows that you are taking this class seriously and I appreciate that. So far I am liking your work and it shows a lot of potential to be a nice piece.

I need you to decide a main theme for your song and be more economic on your themes. This is another golden rule you should understand. Being economic in your melodic materials not only makes it easier for you to organize your piece but also makes it easier for the listener to understand your music. Ultimately it helps your piece to be more coherent. For your next assignement choose a melodic material from your recent sketches and try to be more faithful to the original material when you make the transformations and alternations. I am going to be more specific: on the staff paper write the theme that you choose and after that write 3-4 different alternations of it. It will be also a good idea to choose a contrasting theme to be the 2nd theme of the song. You can also write alternations for that one. Please indicate everything with text on the finale file.