Fall 2025 Halloween Competition

The members have voted and decided upon a Halloween themed competition!  This is a just-for-fun competition without monetary awards.  But I will be making badges to reward the participants and to give them kudos!  I'm thinking I'll make a badge for "Strangest/Weirdest/Most Outlandish piece", "Spookiest/Scariest piece" and "Overall 2025 Halloween winner" which will all be decided by a popular voting poll.  The participants will also be able to earn an "Ardent Reviewer" badge if they review all the other participants works!  Please reply to this topic to declare your intent to participate in the competition!  The competition has the following constraints:

Instrumentation - Free choice of any of the following ensembles:

1. Piano Quintet/Quartet/Trio
2. String Quintet/Quartet/Trio
3. Woodwind Quintet/Quartet/Trio
4. Brass Quintet/Quartet/Trio
5. Mixed Quintet/Quartet/Trio

      Additionally, the participants are allowed to include Harpsichord, Organ or any other instrument which they believe would facilitate a Halloween-themed piece, as long as they keep the total number of instruments used between 3 and 5.

Duration:  3 - 7 minutes with a sweet spot of 5 minutes.

Deadline:  Friday, October 31st, 2025

Here is the submissions thread for the competition where participants are encouraged to post links to their composition (rather than posting their piece directly into the pre-existing topic - make your own dedicated topic so the members at large can review your music there):

On 10/5/2025 at 7:42 PM, PeterthePapercomPoser said:

Please reply to this topic to declare your intent to participate in the competition!

I declare my intent to participate in the competition