1. Long Sound
Single pitches, held for a long time (full breaths, full bows, etc.)
Timbral evolution definitely allowed.
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7. Short Attacks
Isolated sounds with short attacks, like the diagram.
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2. Accented Long Sound
Long sounds, as above, but with an accented, assertive attack.
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8. Angular Attacks
(Like the diagram?)
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3. Trills
Quickly alternate two pitches, not necessarily adjacent, not necessarily regular rhythm.
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9. Legato Formings
Melodic lines with legato articulation.
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4. Staccato Line Formings
Melodic lines with staccato articulation.
(Not a single pitch, despite the diagram!)
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10. Diatonic Formings
Melodic lines made up of notes chosen from a scale (of your choice.)
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5. Intervallic Line Formings
Melodic lines made up of large intervals.
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11. Gradient Formings
One or more musical elements--volume, tempo, pitch, timbre--gradually
changes.
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6. Multiphonics
If your instrument doesn't really do multiphonics, any other sort of
skronky noises will do.
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12. Sub-identity Formings
Something begins as a part of something else, then digresses into an
independent identity--for example, a snatch of some familiar tune
develops as a submotif out of a diatonic forming, ends and
then yields to the latter; or a section of trills set within a piece
primarily comprising long tones.
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