Cool! I think it's great that you're taking this step. Music is a language with it's own patterns of behavior, and those patterns will change depending one what era and what genre you're looking at. For SCA purposes, I'd suggest making a study of those Playford tunes that are period and other dance tunes that fall within our period, to see what the trends are there (much period popular vocal music is based on dance tunes and rhythms). I'd do some reading on the topic of melodic mode and affect. I might even read some period treatises on musical composition, though those often addresses polyphonic and/or sacred music. Then I'd chuck all that and write something that pleases me, or at least that's what I'd do if I had an iota of talent for composition. Which I don't.
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Music is a language with it's own patterns of behavior, and those patterns will change depending one what era and what genre you're looking at. For SCA purposes, I'd suggest making a study of those Playford tunes that are period and other dance tunes that fall within our period, to see what the trends are there (much period popular vocal music is based on dance tunes and rhythms). I'd do some reading on the topic of melodic mode and affect. I might even read some period treatises on musical composition, though those often addresses polyphonic and/or sacred music. Then I'd chuck all that and write something that pleases me, or at least that's what I'd do if I had an iota of talent for composition. Which I don't.