New Year's Competition

er, and tell me whoever it is if you find someone :P

Who ME?

Fine... *runs off in search of someone*

oh, I thought Alan was specifically asking you to find a judge :P

but thanks ;)

I PM'ed somebody who might like to do it, we'll see....

er, I kind of wanted to post my piece up for others to listen :P. Did you make a decision yet, Alan? Or can I just post it? Or should I not? Maybe I shouldn't? But I want to, right? Perhaps I'll do it anyway? No, I wouldn't do that....would I? Would you understand? Does it even matter? Does anything?

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The answer is.

It was Abadoss. I'm sure he will be fair! :P

So who won :P?

We'll see. I wasn't sure if Abadoss would do it, but I knew he would be fair, so I asked him anyways. Apparently it was okay with him. :D

By the way, was it just the two of us, or was there another entry?

Sorry for the delay... I've begun as of about ten minutes ago. I should be able to scratch away at this fairly quickly...

{edit} Alrighty. Done. It's 2:30 AM, so I'm going to bed...

Alright! The scores are in! I will be posting the final scores shortly!

Here is a link to the results page!

Thank you to everyone who participated!

Results for New Year's Competition.rtf

hmmm...congrats to James for winning (I heard your piece, it was indeed well written) :D

To the complaints on my piece, though: I thought I'd just say that I thought that the piece was supposed to be our feelings at the New Year, not a "New Year's theme" and for me that meant the piece was supposed to be suspenseful, and apprehensive. I thought I pulled this off on some level :huh:.

and my piece was not atonal at all :P. A lot of chromatic notes, sure, and I don't necessarily establish the tonal center right away (I start on a suspension, after all, and hold/repeat it for a while), but it is in F-minor ;) (with an section in F major, of course). I was indeed experimenting with some more dissonant harmonies, more so than I would normally, perhaps, but I thought with a score it would've been obvious as to what's happening.

so are these pieces going to be posted or what

yeah, I'm posting up mine in the chamber music section...

Yay! I won!! :D

Close race, congrats Dave!

Just thought I'd back up a few things... about the Cb vs. B major.... I wasn't really sure, and it made more sense harmonically to put it in Cb, so I left it as is. Personally, I love Cb and hate B (even on violin, which I play), so that had some influence. I did look at it in B major, and I didn't like how it looked. :P I know it wasn't the smartest decision.

About extended techniques, I wasn't to hot about using them, I was trying to make it rather traditional with as little flare as possible (with the exception of the bluesy gospel moments tossed in). At one point I did have a pizzicato section, but it didn't work out well, so I changed it completely (this is the original material right before Auld Lang Syne comes back the second time).

And about how I should be proud of my arrangement/harmonization of the melodies, I am, rest assured. =]

Anyways, thank you, Abadoss. :)

And you heard my piece, Dave? Where? :huh:

yeah, I'm posting up mine in the chamber music section...

I suppose I'll do the same.

Saw it on your esnips thing. I thought it was nice, but a bit too traditional for my taste....well-written, good technique and all but I thought a bit more originality would've been nice.

You peeked! :angry:

:P

Anyways, here's mine: http://www.youngcomposers.com/forum/reflections-new-years-three-celli-two-contrabasses-12867.html#post204049

... and Dave's: http://www.youngcomposers.com/forum/new-years-trio-12866.html