Film Music Competition

Can't pass up this.

Makes two of us .

I have a question :

I would like to participate but the problem is this:

Pieces must end up in both notation file...

How do I do this please? Oh and I'm not familiar with PDF; only RTF . The actual song is not a problem, but I don't know how I could write the notation. I really hope this doesn't put me at a disadvantage. Unfortunately, I can't do music from a visual aspect; only by ear.

Oh and are multiple entries accepted?

Kind regards.

Um, Tozzy, are you an orchestral composer? I seem to be getting the idea from your post that you compose with synth and perhaps not notation. But for this competition, the composition needs to be notated, and written for the specified orchestra, i.e. real players.

Go ahead and sign me up, I can try it. I can always drop out later, but I don't have much to do this summer. ^^

Ooh this is gonna be hard, no horns...

...just no funny scales or whatever.

What if the piece is slower, but has alot of accidentals from frequent modulation. Not bizzare modulation, but slowly moving through the keys?

When I write in this style I modulate alot. Is that Ok? As slow as they are I don't see even younger players getting tripped up by frequent accidentals.

I'd like to try this out under the consideration that I might pursue other projects that may move this one down in terms of priority.

What interests me about this is the Film Scoring idea. Perhaps we should hold a seperate competition in which the orchestration and abilities of the orchestra are not so strict. It would be interesting to see what people crank out when faced with a certain scene to play music to. Just an idea.

What interests me about this is the Film Scoring idea. Perhaps we should hold a seperate competition in which the orchestration and abilities of the orchestra are not so strict. It would be interesting to see what people crank out when faced with a certain scene to play music to. Just an idea.

We tried that before. For some reason people weren't pleased enough or something.
I even wrote out three good scenes for people to choose from!

The reason the rules are so strict is because there is an orchestra this time

Moving slowly through the keys, that should be fine. I would recommend keeping the key signature throughout and use accidentals when you're changing key, not changing key signature every so often. For many orchestras, that can be very annoying!

I'm in

Um, Tozzy, are you an orchestral composer? I seem to be getting the idea from your post that you compose with synth and perhaps not notation. But for this competition, the composition needs to be notated, and written for the specified orchestra, i.e. real players.

I'm not an orchestral composer but, I've made a song which definitely seems suitable for this competition but, I only have the MP3 without notation in PDF .

But for this competition, the composition needs to be notated, and written for the specified orchestra, i.e. real players.

Dang, in that case, looks like I won't qualify then . Don't worry. Maybe I can submit for any future competions instead.

Good luck in the competion everyone.

What size are the timpani?