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The days are getting shorter, the first snow has fallen...

What better time to snuggle up next to the fire, grab a mug of hot cocoa, and sing some...

SHAKESPEARE!

That's right, ladies and gentlemen, December's competition will be to set some of the world's most renown playwright to MUSIC! And here are the details:

Select a portion of Shakespeare's writing.

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.

Set desired portion to music.

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.

Attach piece to a post in this thread.

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.)

~JUDGING~

There will be a committee appointed to judge this competition. Anyone else wishing to participate as a judge should express their interest in this thread.

JUDGES:

1. MusicFiend

2. JohnPax

3. HeckelphoneNYC

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The judging will be based on the following criteria:

20 points - Use of Material (How well you used and expressed the segment you selected)

15 points - Overall Music (Based upon musical fluency, development, and overall sound and feel)

10 points - Score (Cleanliness, legibility, professional quality)

5 points - Originality

In order for your entry to be valid, it MUST be posted here BEFORE your time zone enters the year 2011!

The judging will be complete before Monday, January 10, 2011, at 12:00 A.M. (GMT -7)

GOOD LUCK!!!

COMPETITORS

1. Jawoodruff

2. TheWannabeChopin

3. Siwi

4. Andreavezzoli

5. SefanPalen

6. Slothfat

7. PianoOnWheels

8. Nicksticks91

And, the winner is...

SIWI!

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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.

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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...

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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

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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

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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.

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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!

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