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Annotation on Blues Composition Brief I have been asked to compose a piece of music that would be suitable to be played in a cocktail bar of a cruise ship. The piece must be composed for Piano and have a minimum length of 1 minute 30 seconds. It must have a blues theme and have one contrasting section. I have chosen to write in C major, as it is an easy key to play in. I chose 4:4 time as this is a characteristic of blues music. One blues/jazz piano piece which inspired my composition was George Gershwin's 'Rhapsody in blue'. It is mainly a jazz piece and has many blues characteristics. For this piece I wrote an 8 bar long introduction. I composed 4 bars of blues music and then adapted it to make a further 4 bars. The music is syncopated, and the position of the accents enforces this, thus adding a...

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