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Snoerr's Introduction to Composition
From A Tale in the Desert
Basic Overview
The basic steps in composing a piece for your orchestra are:
- Build a Music Stand. This is the construction used by the composer
- Find musicians to play in your orchestra. It may be easiest if the composer builds the instruments needed for their composition and provides them to the players. A composer cannot also be a musician in the orchestra.
- Drop the Music Stand on the ground. A musician with an instrument in their inventory uses the stand and tunes their instrument to the stand. A musician may only be tuned to one stand with one instrument. This tuning lasts for 24 hours, and can be removed before that time by the composer. If an instrument is detuned, the composed part for that instrument is erased.
- Bring up the composition interface
- Select the instrument button at the bottom of the interface to edit the composition for that instrument.
- Place dots for the notes in the instruments. Time in the piece moves forward as the composition scrolls downward, and pitches go from left-to-right. You can place multiple pitches at the same time to form chords. Each increment moving to the right is a half step. The heavy bars mark an octave. See the examples below.
Examples
A chromatic scale would look like:
A major scale would look like:
