Adding Interest to Your Texture

Changing Time Signatures

Combining Techniques for Developing Melodies

Composing a Melody

Contrasting Musical Ideas

Creating Chords

Creating Chromatic Harmony

Creating Dissonance

Creating Musical Characters

Creating Polyphonic Texture and Counter Melody

Creating Variations in the Melody

Creating Variations Through Melody

Developing a Melody Through Inversion

Developing a Melody Through Retrograde Motion

Developing a Melody Through Sequencing

Diatonic Harmony

Different Types of Texture

Dynamic in a String Quartet

Exploring Rhythm in Jesse Montgomery’s Strum

Glissandos

Homophonic Texture

Imitation in Anna Meredith’s Tuggemo

Imitation within a String Quartet

Introduction to Dmitri Shostakovich’s Quartet No.8

Introduction to Franz Schubert’s Death and the Maiden

Introduction to Harmony

Introduction to Melody

Introduction to Texture

Introduction to the String Quartet

Introduction to Tuggemo

Playing Styles

Theme and Variations Structure

Theme and Variations – Creating Variations Through Accompaniment

Ways of Playing String Instruments

Writing for a String Quartet