In music, an air is the term used to refer to a melody for a single voice; here is an example written by the author:
The performance is by Maestro Héctor Pérez, a flutist—a young master originally from the city of Puebla.
This composition was created following recommendation number three by Maestro Macías in his book Doce Maneras de Abordar la Composición Musical. The reader can access it at the following link:
In this case, we made use of Bach’s famous Badinerie, shown below. Variations were applied to that composition, resulting in the following idea:
In Chapter III, Gonzalo Macías proposes that in order to compose a melody for an instrument we are not familiar with, we can start from an existing musical fragment written for that instrument and then make modifications.
To gain a better understanding of the instrument’s range, we also reviewed—as the book suggests—a fragment from Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune.
After seeing this, one might think that we are plagiarizing another author, but many musical works that are celebrated today derive from earlier compositions. This is a common practice.
In this way, we can confidently create compositions that we know will work well in practice.
Carlos, siendo franco 