I have had some pops at melody writing, but unfortunately not enough time to have a good focussed attack at it, write everything down and complete your assignments, sorry about that
The exams aren't affording me as much free time as I'd hoped. I shall hopefully have some spare time tomorrow to work at it, though I have an exam on Monday - so whether or not my parents will let me on the computer is a completely different matter! However, following my exam on Monday I have a whole week before my next one - which should hopefully be time enough to get some proper work done.
You comments on my Sarabande are interesting. Is your objection to the 7th in the first bar stylistic or musical? If the former then it's just because I treat 7ths and 9ths much more liberally than anyone in the Baroque era - to me, the only dissonances that need resolution are fourths and tritones. This is more of a personal issue, the treatmeant of dissonance, and to me the sound of a 7th that doesn't necessary resolve is quite beautiful - but I know this is a definite no no in Baroque style, and so I shall stick to being stylistically faithful as far as possible in exercises - this was just a bit of music I wanted to write, and as we'd been looking at Sarabandes I chose that idiom to work in, but with more elements of my own style.
If, however, the latter - you think it's a musical problem then I should perhaps use a few more, so it doesn't stick out so much
As for the Dnat -> D# - I don't feel that's that much of a problem in this case, but I understand how it could be slightly jarring, I shall avoid that sort of thing in exercises in the future.
As far as continuing it is going, I may have my 16 bar B section finished in the next few days - this would constitute my longest (and in my opinion best) composition to date
Mark