Create a top-scoring composition with strong harmonic structure and modulations, with well-crafted, musical phrases.

If you are taking the ABRSM Grade 8 Music Theory exam, this course is for you. This question is worth 20% of the whole exam, but since it seems rather "subjective" - how can you know whether your composition is any good?

In this course, you'll learn exactly how to craft a high-scoring composition, which will please the examiners and please you too!

In this course you will learn:

How to adapt the ideas of the given opening in the exam question, using techniques such as sequences, imitation, augmentation/diminution and others, to produce a coherent whole.
How to plan a strong, balanced structure for your composition, using clear phrases and appropriate cadences.
How to modulate - through which keys, and precisely how to do that, using a variety of methods.
How to make your performance directions meaningful and idiomatic (suitable for the instrument you're writing for).