I don't know how to compose beyond the 32-bar AABA or AABA song. I can write an intro to one of those, so that's another 8 measures, or a tag ending of another 4, but I don't know how to develop thematic material. The best I've come up with is 3 32 bar structures in a row, with related material. As I've said before, I'm surprised that I can write music at all, so I should be happy with that.
Maybe I should do a rondo, with an "ABACABA" form, or stick to my suites, or simply write phrases longer than 8 measures.
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If you don't have a teacher working with you on this, I would suggest picking a model that you can study in detail and imitating it more or less closely. (Example: the familiar Clementi sonatina in C, op. 36 no. 1.)
I don't have a composition teacher. I like the Clementi idea. It takes me back to childhood piano lessons.
It's short enough that you can work out what literally every note is doing.
I can hear it just by looking at it for me most part and can see immediately what is happening in some parts. I think my own music is more complex since this is most just I, V, and IV. That's the best place to start for me, though, precisely because I haven't analyzed classical music before. Short and simple.
Well, complexity doesn't reside only in harmony. Note for example how the right hand in bars 5-7 is rewritten in the recapitulation -- two basic transformations.
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