PeterthePapercomPoser

Here is @Dima's submission to the competition!

@Dima I can't access your links - it says access is denied.

And @Micah has posted their submission as well!

Just a reminder for everyone that the competition doesn't close until Friday October 31st, 11:59 pm PST and more music can still be submitted by then! The following people have declared their intent to participate but have not yet submitted music: @ferrum.wav @Wieland Handke @Micah Do you still intend to submit music before the deadline?

The next competition/challenge will probably be the Christmas music Event and that will be completely open with no particular requirements in terms of instrumentation, or duration.

I just listened to the piece and the only thing keeping it from meeting the requirements for the competition is that you're using ensemble strings patches instead of solo strings. If you use solo strings, this would be a great string quintet and would meet the requirement of being for 3 to 5 instruments!

Your piece is for orchestra. This is a competition for chamber works for between 3 to 5 instruments total.

And here is @MK_Piano's first submission both to the contest and to the forum!

Luigi Cherubini - String Quartet No. 2 in C major - Scherzo

Hook - Exit music

Luigi Cherubini - String Quartet No. 1 in Eb major - Scherzo

You might be interested in this:

I couldn't pass up another chance to do another Muzoracle casting for a friend. (Muzoracle is a storytelling/divination tool similar to the Tarot card deck, but with cards with musical concepts and 12-sided Musician's dice and Solfege dice.) This time, Kat asked the Muzoracle if she will be financially stable. My interpretation of the cards and dice are displayed below. The instrumentation of the piece was guided by the suits of the cards drawn. Since the triad on the left is in the suit of strings, I chose Harp. The triad in the middle is in the suit of brass, so I chose Trumpet and French Horn. And finally, the Conductor card on the right is in the suit of voices, so I chose a 4-part women's choir. If you'd like to find out more about Muzoracle and how castings are interpreted go here: https://muzoracle.net/ This short musical representation of Kat's casting is about 2 and half minutes long. The piece is in Bb, since the black 12-sided musicians die landed on Bb. I then made harmonic/melodic underdrawings that I used in the composition of the music. Since the first solfege die landed on FA and the card drawn was a triad of strings. I start off with Eb major triads in the harp. Then I included an Agitato brass passage based around RA (the RE in the image below should be a RA - it's a mistake). Then I switched to a triad based on MI, before moving the music to G minor through a D7 b5 kind of harmony. Then, in order to end up back in Bb major at the end I transposed the whole pattern up a 5th and retraced my steps in a retrograde, back to the beginning chord. If you've gotten this far, thanks for reading! And I hope you enjoy listening to this short chamber work I wrote to represent Kat's casting. Comments, suggestions, or critiques are of course, always welcome. Thanks for listening.

Hi again @Alex Weidmann! There's a few things that I notice about this. I think that rhythmically, you're not writing for human performers but rather for the strict metronomic execution of a sequencer. Many of your wacky rhythms could be rewritten with rit.'s or accel.'s or fermatas to get the same results with a much simpler and cleaner looking rhythm. Also, some of the rhythms are so quick that you're not able to even hear them (for example the Flute part in measure 64, right before B). Another thing is that the Solo Violin is currently being played by the ensemble strings patch. I think it would sound much more like a concerto if you let us hear it with the Solo Violin sounds! Thanks for sharing!

I agree as well. And the way to get around the system is to use dollar signs instead of s's: a$$. LoL .. now we just need a forum AI to detect this kind of clever bypass.