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"A piece consisting only of a family of instruments (strings, brass, winds, percussion, keyboards) written based on a text."
Does this mean ONLY all strings, or ONLY all brass, or ONLY all woodwinds? Or all together (I.E. orchestra) ... 'tis not very clear. Also... what is a text? Does this mean it must reflect a poem, or story? A novel? A specific theme FROM a book, story or novel (kinda of like themes are specific to certain elements of a movie) or must the text be a compressed form? Like something we can provide (I.E. a poem or speech)? Can the text be original (I.E. written BY us)? Will a passage be provided that we must write to, or would we each make our own choices as for what texts to choose from and use?
"... so the public can vote too, and the results of the poll will account for 50% of the marking of the pieces."
50%? That's quite large. I believe it was I who originally introduced this idea, I didn't have such a balance in mind. Who do WE want voting our piece? The public, or the judges? The judges are the ones who can be trusted for specific... well... judgments, but there are only few of them. Who all are currently judges? Please give us a list, we like to know these things, especially since Morivou has relinquished. OR... do we trust the general appeal to the public? I'm not questioning the fairness of the 50% balance, I'm asking if everybody else knows what this entails and fully agrees.
Can we still make a suggestion to add to the poll? If so, I would like to suggest a non-original composition, an orchestration of any piano sonata. Jair Crawford was doing Beethoven Op.2 and I ran across the thread and thought it would be a novel idea to see who could find the most effective piano sonata to orchestrate, and orchestrate it most effectively.
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