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A note to Nickthoven:
Some of my favorite choral pieces are fairly dissonant. See what you can do with it and submit it.
A suggestion to Mike and Nickthoven:
I think we are approaching the point where there are too many people wanting to be judges. It's likely to get to a point where there will be more judges than competitors. It's kind of annoyed me to see so many people joining in as judges because they were too late for the deadline to compete. If I had it my way, I would have denied anyone to be a judge who did not express his wish to do so by the same deadline the competitors had to join in. As it stands, I think we should lock the judges as they are. If you decide to drop out, drop out, but don't continue to add on.
A suggestion to Sapphire:
I think those principles work out pretty well, but I think they can be revised some. For instance, a very important part of Choral writing is voice leading. Singability should be an important criterium for this competition. Also, text setting is also important. Please note that if you have decided not to set a piece to text, this does not exclude you from text settings. Neutral vowel sounds like [u] [o] [a] and humming are all considered text settings. You cannot simply write notes and not tell your chorus what vowels or words to sing.
All these by-laws need to be charted down by the judges and voted on until we reach a standard of requirements for the competition. Until we reach this conclusion NO pieces may be listened to or judged, so as not to give an unfair advantage.
A suggestion to other judges:
I think pieces should be submitted anonymously for fairness. This would require one of the judges to act as the middle man between competitors and judges. All competitors will send him their pieces. He will then label them a-z or 1-90 or however it works best. That way we have no idea who's pieces are whose except the competitors and the middle man (who has no vote with the judges). Competitors should be encouraged to remove their names from the pieces to remain anonymous.
These are merely suggestions, but I think they should prove as a stable foundation for our judging criteria.
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Sean Christopher Stork
Nightingale Incorporated
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