Any Melody Can Be A Spooky Tune Halloween is here again, and with it comes a time for all things spooky and mysterious! It's a night when ghouls, ghosts, and gremlins walk the amongst us and for things that go bump in the night. As composers, we can take part in the fun and practice our composition skills by transforming any melody, especially traditional folk and children's songs into mysterious melodues and frightening refrains. We can infuse them with an eerie touches that

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