Grade 6 Music Theory, Unit 8, Lesson 3 of 3
Brainlag Music

Writing a melody for an instrument

Music theory, Modulation and melody writing, 20 minutes

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Question 3: continuing an opening into eight bars that modulate, shaped for a named instrument, with performance directions.

Continue the opening

An opening for violin, as the paper might give it: two bars in D major

The paper gives you an opening, usually two bars, for a named instrument: continue it to about eight bars.

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  • 4 exam-style questions, marked as you go, each with a worked solution
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