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Just keep in mind that this is a volunteer-based competition with no incentive. So, while we do the best we can, I cannot guarantee that all guidelines will be met. I will post Aniolel's scores on Tuesday, as well as my own (plus reviews). If I don't have JA's scores by then, I will just go without him. Fair? The June competition has been decided. As a primer: it will be a Romantic period style piece for piano and up to 4 more instruments of your choice. There WILL be a melodic motif for you to decide upon using, and the time limit, as per the guidelines of the Monthly Competition, will be 5 minutes as always. HOWEVER, there is a catch: if you end up wanting to do more than one MOVEMENT, each movement can be a separate entry. They will be judged separately, and you can write multimovement works with each movement's time limit as 5 minutes.

Wait, you want to create a competition for a Romantic style piece? You have to make Austentite a judge-no one will want to pit themselves against him in a Romantic-style competition.

Austenite's got the right idea. ;) If you want to "escape" the rules of a 5 minute piece, you'll have to be more creative. Make independent movements. I've seen works where the different movements ONLY shared instrumentation, if that. Movements that depend on one another would defeat the purpose of a five minute limit for development of ideas.

A diamond-shaped notehead is not the correct notation for a natural harmonic. What you have written here are artificial harmonics which will sound two octaves above the pitch of the normal (lower) notehead. Natural harmonics are notated by writing a small circle above the note to be touched lightly. They can only be used for notes within the harmonic series of the string, but the same harmonic may be available in several places and it is generally best to let the player work out the most practical string on which to play each one. Artificial harmonics touched at the third and fifth are not as successful on the cello as on the violin and viola. The passage you show is just about playable but quite difficult. If you mean to write artificial harmonics here, the player must move their entire left hand to a different position for every note and be able to tune it accurately.