Creating a piece of music Named after 3.5 players from the modern Chelsea team, the 'Sambacudi-Gallasoterry-Lampardo' was created after 5 weeks of creation, imagination and uninterrupted notation. Our goal was to create a new dance to perform. The course was led by the famous Michael Finnessy of the University of Southampton, who is what you might call a music expert. Our piece needed to be under three minutes, but time wasn't a high priority. We were asked to use four different instruments: the piano, the clarinet, any type of saxophone and any type of percussion. My and all the other students who attended this course's final piece was played on 22 November at 'St Michael's And All the Angels' Church, as part of a local music festival, open to all with a ticket. The music was played by the "Tacet Ensemble", who are professional musicians. The composers met them in mid-October, when they took what we had done at that time and played it, and then commented on what could be improved, discarded, added, etc. My piece wasn't played because I didn't include a clarinet part in it. . At that point, I was working in Cubase and the printed notations were very confusing and unplayable. That day, however, I was watching and listening to Sambas and Tangos by other composers and they all seemed like the beginnings of satisfying dances. I gathered some ideas and suggestions from musicians, other students' music and of course Michael Finnessy; explaining that telephone poles are not just ugly for the countryside, they can symbolize the phases of a melody, saying that one must lead to another, which leads to another, as a dance should. On October 4th I joined the group, a week after they found out what it was. With a perplexed, panicked look on his face, Mr. Kerney sat me down next to a piano and said, "G, F, C. See what you can make of it!" This is where I thought of other songs