Hey !Mark!
Yeah I get what your saying. I've always wanted to work on the competitions section but think I'm just 'not ready' to compete with people I know on these forums who make far better music. Perhaps we could have 'Amateur competitions', having certain prerequisites to competing that can be enforced by the judges. E.g. having only started composing under 2 years, having a basic knowledge of music theory only, etc. It could be a good way of leaning the formal features of a sonata - which everyone seems to just *know* and I'm always like  If I could have formal feedback and encouragment on stylistic and formal features I would *very* much like to write a violin sonata, and a much better string quartet. Well - keep us updated. I would like to know what we should petition to the YCF admin  All the best,
Pravin
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"Some Beauties yet, no Precepts can declare,
For there's a Happiness as well as Care.
Musick resembles Poetry, in each
Are nameless Graces which no Methods teach,
And which a Master-Hand alone can reach.
If, where the Rules not far enough extend,
(Since Rules were made but to promote their End)
Some Lucky LICENCE answers to the full
Th' Intent propos'd, that Licence is a Rule."
- Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, I.141-149
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