Poll: What features do you most want your music to have?

1. What kind of features/aspects do you aspire to have in your music?

• To modulate more frequently or to more distantly related keys to create special moments in my music.
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• To make ostinati in my music that lend themselves well towards creating intensity and/or motion/drive in my music.
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• To have dynamic melodic material in my music that can play multiple roles: theme, ostinato, bass line, pointillistic textures/figurations.
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• To germinate all my melodic material from a small fragment/seed like Beethovens' 5th.
  7
• To use a more adventurous harmonic language/tonality/polytonality/atonality.
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• To strike a balance between unity and variety or between novelty and conservatism in my music.
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• To use more free intermixing of orchestral colors instead of splitting the orchestra into its constituent sections: woodwinds, brass, percussion, strings. To use more unique instrumental combinations/colors.
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• To write for ensembles without copious amounts of doubling, giving each instrument a unique/functional part to play.
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• To write solos in my music for individual instruments to be given a spotlight.
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• To use interrelated themes/leitmotifs in my music.
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• To have plenty of counterpoint or canonical imitation or question/answer juxtaposition in my music.
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• To have interesting countermelodies interwoven into my music.
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• To use catchy rhythms/rhythmic motifs in my music including rhythmic devices such as hocket, syncopation or swing.
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• To be able to write a wide variety of different types of melodies: catchy tune-like melodies, lyrical song-like melodies, motivic melodies that lend themselves to contrapuntal treatment, improvisatory melodies etc.
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• To write more programmatic or incidental music: music that either tells a story, paints a picture, presents a series of events, or portrays a mood.
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• To write in sharply contrasting styles to avoid fatigue in one style or to write more pieces that are themselves poly-stylist or gather many eclectic influences into one presentation.
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• To include as many different textures in my music as possible: homophonic, heterophonic, polyphonic, monophonic.
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