This was the first time that I had ever composed music. Not including the time it took me to familiarize myself with MuseScore, the actual composition took an hour. MuseScore is a downloaded program that allows the user to create sheet music for a variety of instruments and play the sheet music using pre-saved sounds for each note of each instrument. I added 5 instruments, but only used 3, and one more at the very end. It was nice to be able to create sheet music that would be difficult for an average musician, but calculated and easy for a computer program. 

In relation to the work, I used Kandinsky's color theory to find the right instruments and pitches. The violin, a bright and high-pitched instrument, was used to represent the smaller circles especially the yellow/orange circles. Kandinsky found yellow to be bright and high sounding. The oboe represented a lot of the reds and browns that were in the main cluster of circles around the large blue circle. Red was more of a middle-level color to Kandinsky. Since they were so present, I ended up creating a recurring portion of oboe in the work to make it a tonal main theme. The large blue circle is one of the most prominent portions in the piece, and therefore should be as well in the song. The blue circle is the double bass, providing a structure for the piece, and a sense of stability.

(source: http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/~g.legrady/academic/courses/12w259/Kandinsky_%20Color%20Theory.pdf )