At the end of August, I entered a contest for the best variation of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star". It was sponsored by Noteflight, the company who provides an online music notation software. I use this software for two reasons: 1) it's free; 2) having the software online means I can access it anywhere I have an internet connection.
For the contest, I decided to create a fugue. A fugue is traditionally one of the most difficult forms to compose in. A fugue basically has several independent melody lines (meaning they're not all singing/playing the same melody at the same time), yet the melodies all come from the same idea (in this case, "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star").This is difficult because not only do the individual lines have to be clear, they also have to fit together harmonically.
I ended up writing a string quartet, in part because it was easy for me to keep track of the different lines (as opposed to writing for piano where I would be very concerned about playability) and in part because I had been listening to a lot of music with strings. Their sound was definitely in my ear, and I wanted to see how I could make those instruments work together.
Here is my (non-winning) entry:
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