Film Music Competition

Alright everyone, 9 DAYS LEFT!!! You all gonna be able to make it? I'll PM everyone, to make sure they're on schedule.

Thomas - my piece shouldn't be too tough. I do have a fair amount of accidentals, even sharps for woodwinds and trumpet sometimes, but those passages are always slow enough, and I could even manage them (I'm worse than HS players, trust me). The key only changes from G minor to C major, though I may change that to F minor/Bb major if you really want me to and it doesn't hurt the tonality too much!

For the original submission, I will be providing and MUS and an MP3. If I should win this, I will need to hunt down a way to convert the MUS to a PDF, as I don't have Acrobat on my computer, just the Reader; in fact, I'd suspect most in this competition don't have Acrobat. Thomas, are you capable of making that conversion, or would I need to find someone who can do it for me?

Also, Thomas, the piano's part is very sparse, only notes here and there for coloristic effects. Is this acceptable? I can add more interesting stuff if it's not. I have the violins up to the D above the E string in one small section - it's an eighth-note triplet arpeggio up and down, and the highest note is the only thing that really goes outside your recommended range, so it might still sound good - they're backed up by the piano and it's not so important for them to stand out like crazy. Is that alright?

Johann, Primo PDF is a free utility that installs onto your computer as a printer. When you hit the print button in Finale, you can select (under the different printer pulldown at the top) Primo PDF and it will 'print' the music file into a PDF, at the specified location.

If you don't care to do this, you could always send me the mus. file, I'd be glad to do it for you if you happened to win.

Thank you so much, Nick! I downloaded it - no sense in making you do it when being able to export to PDF is something that I've wanted to be able to do, since it's extremely useful for distribution purposes.

Johann - that sounds alright. Can't wait to see it.

I use CutePDF for changing files into adobe acrobat but sometimes it can be quite annoying cause it causes the pc to slow down or freeze if I have another printer on or doing something else.

Yeah, only a few days left. Hang in there everyone!

I'm going to need to submit my entry about 2 days early since I'm leaving town. Will that be alright?

I have te same problem I'll leave two days earlier too. So may I submit it earlier?

Yes, you should submit either a MIDI or MP3, AND either a sib., mus., or pdf., to Thomas' e-mail, which is in the first post in this thread. I don't remember it offhand, but it's on page one. I'm sure he won't mind the pieces being early. Good luck!

ONE WEEK!!!

Hmm, I think I'm gonna have to drop out. I barely have even one minute done, and that's only in MIDI. On top of that, I don't have a Notation program readily available for use to transcribe it afterwards, so it'll probably take too long. Sorry. I'll post the piece in the compositions section if I ever finish it, though.

Ooh, I'll have to drop out too. I barely have one movement done (which is only about two minutes) and now I'm stuck. I probably wouldn't win the competition, anyway.

PS: I'm not leaving...