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The October Competition:

Halloween Contest!

Composing from October 5-October 25th. Judging from October 25th-October30th.

Winner announced on October 31st and featured on the Radio. :D

The Premise: Composers will write a Halloween themed piece in a CLASSICAL form. Sonata-Allegro (in a minor key). Toccata and Fugue was popular for making dramatic sounds that we NOW use as Horror-style scores. It should be for SOLO KEYBOARD INSTRUMENT. Piano. Harpsichord. Organ. All available to you. IF you are feeling adventurous, I will also allow the use of an auxiliary instrument as a solo line. Maybe a bass clarinet, trumpet, whatever you want. But, I feel like that would be harder to do with some classical forms. If you have a question about whether something is a classical form (I mean from the 1700s (Late Baroque) - late 1800s (Romantic)). But many forms were solidified and became obsolete in the 20th century. They have become novelty, but they have also become VERY cool! I was going to have a fugue competition, but I didn't want to force people to learn HOW to write a fugue. While it's not terribly difficult, it requires a week or so of research if you aren't familiar with the style.

Scoring

Classical Form? x/10

Idiomatic use of Keyboard instrument? x/25

Musical content? (is is based on a theme that could be considered halloweeny? Is the music developed well? Good arc?) x/25

Score!!! And, NEAT score!!! x/15

Paragraph doing a DETAILED analysis of your piece: x/25

You will be presenting a theoretical paper on your piece as well. One page (double spaced) of all the ideas you used and how you treated them. This will help the judges understand how you treated the compositional process and can help you to better your process by suggesting different methods.

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What is this a piano composition in which i am excited about. Before I enter myself here, without knowing what i am getting involved with, one question: Are we excluding the romantic waltzes of Chopin and the like in this composition?

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Man, I would really like to participate... However, i'm really not that familiar with Fugue unfortunately. And considering that I -just- joined, and only have one composition up, I'm not sure if i'm even allowed to try. But, if you are fine with me giving a swing at it, i'll try my best.

Out of curiosity.. By "Classical" do you mean a Sonata format? Also, can we do multiple Movements?

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Another question: Are tonal poems out of this competition, connor?

And i terrible forget about something imperative: I will be away from the 20-26 of this month, which means I can not enjoy the merriment of this competition.

Grrr...stupid vacations.

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Classical form + piano is something I could try. A good pretext for writing for my instrument in a solo context, which I seldom do. The descriptive side of the competition leaves me cold, though, but at the end of the day, it would be a matter of choosing a suitable halloween title such as "Romanza of the rotten corpses", regardless the musical content, and being prepared to be detracted points because it evokes dead butterflies or mutant grazing and gazing sheeps or whatever; no big deal... ;-)

However, the timing is terrible for this one, no way I could possibly write something this month. Still, I sure will enjoy listening to the entries. Hopefully, there will be something I can play.

Good luck to the competitors!

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In this case you may want to help us as a judge... I'm pretty sure you could easily handle that job.

Tempting, but I must decline to commit myself to that responsibility. Thanks for thinking I could be a judge, though; much appreciated. Still, I will be happy to give unofficial comments and reviews on the entries; only I can't realistically undertake in-depth analysis and judging to a deadline for the time being.

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