unrelated fiddling

(Unrelated to anything in the previous post) I wrote a little piano piece. Very little -- about a minute of repetitive music. It roughly follows pop-song form (AABA) and uses a sort of modal scale (F-G-A-B-C#-D-E) that I've used before and like to fiddle with. This is nothing special, but I suppose there is something to occasionally writing little songs that don't try too hard.

Anyway, picking up from last time, I mentioned that I wanted to do something modular. For whatever reason I started thinking about a hypothetical modular piece as monophonic. (I seem to naturally gravitate to monody, which might seem strange, but whatever.) I was going to write a long melody which I would then divide into segments which I could move about into new contexts; the first part of the piece would be the melody, the second (presumably much longer) part would be the playing around with it. Then I thought, as long as I insist on emulating Medieval music, I might as well go all the way and write my melody as an elaborate counterpoint to a chunk of plainchant. I quite like juxtaposing that ancient, organic approach with the modern, modular approach. Also, it would give the "segments" a context out of which to be taken without muddling with modern harmonic ideas (that would be irrelevant to the piece).

Meanwhile, I have given no further thought to the problem posed in the last post. The drive to create randomly-generated music comes and goes inexplicably, and I guess it's backed off for now.