Composing an own piece... I need tips!

[opus57]

Seid gegrüsst! Hi together

I got a very interesting homework in school: Compose an own work for a melodious instrument, form and lenght doesn't matter. So I threw myself in the mysterious swamps of creativity and I'm trying out some things and so on. I borrowed some books about harmonics but the most things are easier to learn when you find them out by yourself...

So I wanted to ask here for some tips for composing an own piece. I want to do it in the classical "Sonatenhauptsatzform" (no idea what this means in english. "typical form of the sonatas main movement"?) However: Has anybody truly whisdom in his pianists soul and wants to share this with me? I would be very pleased!

And there is one question at the moment: How can I build a bridge passage from f sharp minor to g minor? on three ways: with one chord, with 4 single tones and with 8 single tones...

thx very much and good night
opus57

[ramseytheii]

Sonatenhauptsatzform means in englisch, first-movement sonata form.  The meaning is debatable, but academically it usually refers to an exposition with a main theme (sometimes an introduction), a second theme in the dominant (or relative major if it begins in a minor key); a development which is harmonically unstable and usually breaks up the themes into small pieces; and an exposition that resolves the development and presents the second theme in the main key.

To get from f-sharp minor to g minor, use A major as a pivot chord (III in f#, V/V in g minor).

Walter Ramsey

[opus57]

OK thank you. I'll test it...

[steve jones]

You could try a direct modulation and create a vivid juxtaposition between the two themes.

Or use the +6 as a secondary dominant. Might be interesting.

SJ

[opus57]

So there is another question: I'd like to create a tremolo-passage (tremolo in octaves) and I'm not sure what's the smoothest way to form the bass in triplets (triole/tercet/however they are named in english) into the main voice with the mirrored main theme and the sopran changes to tremoli... I can't imagine a good solution. I listened to Beethoven and others but it didn't helped me much.

So if somebody has an idea... (and if nobody has any idea--> ask for further explanation  ) I HOPE their is a rule of thumb or something...

[pianowolfi]

Can you mail me the thing? I have difficulties to imagine what exactly you want to do. 

[term]

I'm not sure what's the smoothest way to form the bass in triplets (triole/tercet/however they are named in english) into the main voice with the mirrored main theme and the sopran changes to tremoli... I can't imagine a good solution

holy sh*t! 

you're asking for help in composition and what you do is to transform a triplet figure into a mirrored main subject while transforming the soprano voice into a tremolo?
yeeesss....i don't know what you need, but for a first composition you're flying pretty high^^