Aquatunic

So i've finally begun extensive work on JFTFT's theme. Hopefully i can have it finished by the end of the week, but i have a lot of auditions this weekend so im not making any promises. @JFTFT is it a problem if i change your theme into a major key, or would you like me to keep it how it is?

bkho. I'm not trying to force you into anything, but if you do decide to join in, do you think you could work on JFTF's theme. My normally busy schedule at this time of year has prevented me from doing any kind of composing. Chances are, i won't be ready in time for the big reveal of everyone's pieces and everyone will be waiting for me. i still plan on composing it but if you could do me a huge favor and do JFTF's theme as well it would make my life a lot less stressful.

I personally don't see the point of a deadline since this was never a very formal challenge. I think we should just do this how we've done it in the past and move on whenever everyone is finished. Im not sure about anyone else but all a deadline does is stress me out.

Also a great idea. I'm with Pateceramics, lets just pull names from a hat. Anyway, this is my entry http://www.youngcomposers.com/music/listen/7224/%2216%22%20Bar%20Challenge it's not really 16 bars because it's an old piece that i didn't know what to do with and just left it unfinished to rot in the deepest pits of my file folders.

We could have one person use the random name selector and put the results in the thread. https://www.teachstarter.com/random-name-selector/ i'm not exactly sure how it would work but i'm just throwing around ideas.

Don't start without me, i want to join this too.

I think so. Actually i'm just about positive they could. If they have their hands on an intermediate level flute they could even go down to a low B. so the answer to your question is yes, an intermediate level flute player should be able to comfortably play in a low range.

why don't we just choose a song from the previous pool of songs from the last challenge?

So i'm confused right now. Did anyone else post for the competition? were we supposed to put the compositions somewhere else? was the deadline changed? I just don't understand what the situation is. Is the competition off?

I've never had this happen to me on this scale. i guess what you should do is find the parts that you especially want to keep the same, and tell him/her to play it as written. For example forget about the endings and tell them to play the harmonies correctly. or perhaps what you could do is slowly over a few weeks tell them to change small things until you get it to how you want it and hopefully they will never notice that you changed it on them :P i don't really know if it's normal to feel that way about a piece because i've never had it happen to me on that scale. although i do remember when i was in 5th grade i won a writing contest and got the little skit i wrote performed by a college group, but when i watched it they had completely changed it up on me. So instead of telling everyone that it wasn't very much like what i had written, i just laughed and told everyone i made it like that. Although that was just because they had changed it for the better. so i would say... if you think it sounds better, let the performer do what they want

http://www.youngcomposers.com/music/listen/7108/Flute%20Quartets%20for%20Your%20Students Then it that case i'll post my entry. sorry i couldn't put everything in one PDF.

I have a question. while reading through the rules to make sure i've done everything correctly, i noticed that at the top it states that we must have at least 4 instruments, but then later under "general rules" it says that we must have 6-10 instruments. which one of these is right? (I would really appreciate it if you said 4 instruments was right because i've already just about finished a series of flute quartets) :P

I think the only person still composing their take is danishali, so i guess whenever that one gets finished we move on. Unless somebody else says they are going to join the party.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ecx0hXw3pE8 this is an old favorite of mine. it uses only two instruments, you would have to use 4. because the piece he is playing is easy enough for beginner, i feel like it kind of has the same idea as our challenge. if this still didn't get the point across you could always just look up string quartets or recorder ensembles. if you're into rock music you may be able to make a rock ensemble with a guitar, bass, drumset, and keyboard. you may have to clear it with the judges though.

Eb to G shouldn't be a problem. if the clarinetists are taught the alternate fingerings for Middle C and low Eb, a C minor arpeggio should be no problem. That's the beauty of the clarinet, you can write just about anything for it because it has so many alternate fingerings. Unless you're talking about a C minor scale on a piano in which case the clarinets would be playing a D minor arpeggio which shouldn't be a problem at all. If this wasn't helpful you can always cue the saxophones or flutes.