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Originally Posted by Morivou
Now, understand here, the competition WILL NOT begin until Feb. 14th at 12:00. I will not post the competition we are doing or the rules before then. THAT way (if you haven't noticed, it is leap year), you have a month and a HALF. Which narrows it down even more. So yeah, like last time... 5 nominations, nothing too big like a symphony, but nothing small enough that a month and a half will be not enough of a challenge.
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I would personally love to participate to a challenge, but unfortunately I don't have a LOT of time to devote to it. Writing for instance a 16-bar long theme and 3 variations on it is about the maximum I can do in a month.
If you request too large pieces, then of course it is more interesting for the people who have time to invest in this, but otherwise this is discriminating against a more useful form of "competition" which would be trying to do something on the basis of an imposed framework.
A short fugue with an imposed subject is acceptable for instance, or a string quartet (not too long, like a pair of menuets). Or harmonization contests, where a melody is given (e.g. violin 1) and one has to realize the 3 other parts to make a quartet.
Saying one has to compose a symphony movement is not acceptable (to me) because it is too demanding.