December Competition

I have provided a couple of sources: Monologues - Sonnets

HOWEVER, you need not use material merely from these two websites. If you would like to do a segment not featured on either, as long as it is Shakespeare, it is perfectly acceptable. Be sure to make known which segment you are doing, either via copy/paste, or posting a link. Your segment MUST be at least the length of a sonnet - Fourteen lines.

Now, as you can probably tell, this direction is a bit vague. You may utilize voice, and have the words sung, or you may not, and express the words and emotion merely through the notes - Your call. It must be written for at least two instruments. If you use voice, at least one instrument must not be voice. Your piece must also be between one and three minutes long.

This MUST include a music file (either MIDI or mp3, with the latter being preferred) and score in PDF format. (If, for some reason, you are unable to complete either of these requirements due to technological issues, please PM me.)

I'll compete

I'll judge :)

I'll enter. Maybe I'll finish this entry on time. :)

Count me in to compete. I need a distraction from the orchestral piece I'm trying to finish.

I'll compete

I'll compete

Ill give it a shot

I would like to judge, please :)

I would really like to take part in this for 2 reasons- 1- i love writng music and 2- i love shakespeare but i DO NOT like writing on computer programs, so my suggestion is to let people have an option of either writing it on a computer or writing it on staff paper and scanning it to the website.

Sounds very interesting. I'd like to enter. ^_^

PoW

I would really like to take part in this for 2 reasons- 1- i love writng music and 2- i love shakespeare but i DO NOT like writing on computer programs, so my suggestion is to let people have an option of either writing it on a computer or writing it on staff paper and scanning it to the website.

That's fine, you can scan it to PDF, as long as we have a recording of some sort...

Just a reminder- this competition deadline is coming up quickly!!

sonetto 7.MP3Finale 2008 - Sonetto 7.pdfThis is my piece for competition: I've used Oboe and piano, the piece is on "Sonnets number seven"

http://www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/sonn01.htm

Here's my entry: from The Merry Wives of Windsor. Rather than set the text as an aria, it is recited by the speaker as if he were acting it in the play. Accompaniment is horn and piano, aiming for something of a silent-movie feel. I'm afraid I lack the technical know-how to combine a recording of the voice with the MIDI realisation, but you get the idea.

The text is from Act 2 Scene 2, where Ford has disguised himself as a gentleman called Brook in order to find out what cuckoldry Falstaff has been planning with his wife. After Falstaff leaves, Ford mithers about what will happen to his reputation if this becomes publicly known, and how to get revenge.

Ford: 'What a dammed Epicurean rascal is this! My heart is ready to crack with impatience. Who says this is improvident jealousy? my wife hath sent to him, the hour is fixed, the match is made. Would any man have thought this? See the hell of having a false woman! My bed shall be abused,my coffers ransacked, my reputation gnawn at; and I shall not only receive this villainous wrong, but stand by the adoption of abominable terms, and by him that does me this wrong. Terms! Names! Amaimon sounds well; Lucifer, well; Barbason, well; yet they are the devil's additions, the names of fiends: but Cuckold! Wittol!-Cuckold! the devil himself hath not such a name. Page is an donkey, a secure donkey: he will trust his wife; he will not be jealous. I will rather trust a Fleming with my butter, Parson Hugh the Welshman with my cheese, an Irishman with my aqua-vitae bottle, or a thief to walk my ambling gelding, than my wife with herself: then she plots, then she devises; and what they think in their hearts they may effect, they will break their hearts but they will effect. God be praised for my jealousy! Eleven o'clock the hour: I will prevent this, detect my wife, be revenged on Falstaff, and laugh at Page. I will be about it; better three hours too soon than a minute too late. Fie! fie! fie! Cuckold! cuckold! cuckold!

Ford\'s Monologue.pdf

Ford\'s Monologue.mp3

is it too late to sumit an entry for this? I saw it kind of late and did not want to ask untill I was almost done with something?

So now that I am almost done with what would be my entry, is it too late?

is it too late to sumit an entry for this? I saw it kind of late and did not want to ask untill I was almost done with something?

So now that I am almost done with what would be my entry, is it too late?

You have until the end of the year :)

So... Siwi... There is meant to be a monologue along with it?

The monologue is the text from the play reproduced here, which is recited by a speaker over the music, like in Walton's Facade. I would love to provide a realisation of this but don't know how to combine a midi with a recording of the reciter - and I don't sound like Brian Blessed or Simon Callow when reading it either.

The monologue is the text from the play reproduced here, which is recited by a speaker over the music, like in Walton's Facade. I would love to provide a realisation of this but don't know how to combine a midi with a recording of the reciter - and I don't sound like Brian Blessed or Simon Callow when reading it either.

Very cool!

All right guys!! Tonight's it!!

My entry for the competition

Summer's Day

The description and details can be found on the page through the link.

Good job, you guys that got it in! If anyone has a piece they forgot to post... I MIGHT be willing to extend the deadline a bit. :3 Only three entries is lame. Come one guys.

I thought I would've had time for this. But the holidays got busier for me. So, I'll have to sit out.

Hey... uh... judges...?

Any word on whats going on with the judging?