So I've been doing these daily composition exercises in a similar vein to the Mikrokosmos by Bartok. It's been a lot of fun so far. These are short pieces for piano that are derived from a small amount of material but that meticulously monitor each parameter of the composition (range, dynamics, number of notes used in certain sections ext.) For the exercise I'm going to show you today (written a few weeks ago) I tried to focus on chromatic saturation, thematic transformation, and stretto. If you don't know what these terms mean, don't worry! I'm going to explain them tomorrow (in a hopefully non-boring way.) Hurray! You get to learn something over the summer! I know you are all thrilled :P

For those of you who already know what the previous three terms mean, see if you can hear them in this little piece I wrote. 

The piece is only 43 seconds long so give it a listen!!! Bear in mind that this is an exercise