Composing Tools Tutorial Introduction
The composing tools of Music Discovery help you to create fragments of melody or harmony, in various ways, and put them together to make a complete composition.
At the right of the front screen there is a large button with a hammer and spanner on it, which you can click for quick access to a screen with the composing tools flow-chart on it. This flow chart is illustrated below. All the composing tools are accessible from here by clicking the appropriate rectangle 

There are 6 green rectangles representing 6 ways of creating a fragment. Then the large pink rectangle represents the composing board, which  permits you to assemble fragments of tunes horizontally into a longer piece of music, or vertically to create multi-track scores.  Fragments are accumulated into a special collection in memory, so that they may be used on the Composing Board .  They are represented on the composing board by a series of alphabetic icons in the panels on the bottom of the screen. Once your fragments have been assembled, you can listen to your composition, save it to the database, or go to the accompaniment generator to harmonize it with chords and generate a new track with an accompaniment. Also, you may save your music as a MIDI file, so it can be used in other software, such as a music printing program.