Alternative Summer Competition - Post Your Entries Here

[adrianallan]

Please use this thread to post your entries (and no other messages)

Follow this format

Your full name

The name of your piece

A brief description of the music (optional)

A link to the piece (eg, score exchange and/ or soundcloud) or a PDF of the music as an attachment or an attached Sibelius Score (Sibelius 5 as well if posting in higher versions - as some of us are not on 6 or 7).

I wll give a week for us to all post a piece on this thread (until Sat 22) and then I will open up the voting

[adrianallan]

Here is my entry

Adrian Allan

Name of piece: Beware. A duet for violin and piano.

This expressive tonal piece features bossa nova rhythms. The ottavia e butler reference on the score is due to the fact that the melody was originally inspired by a piece of prose. You can hear the word "beware" on the first notes. It features mild dissonances and extended chords. This is the "spice" that i often use to make my harmonies more interesting. If I was to edit this piece I might make the piano a bit less busy on the left hand. But overall I'm fairly happy with this short piece.

Beware for violin and piano

[wizzarts]

I am not sure whether or not I can participate with this. If not just remove the post

Andrew Noah Cap
Title: Ahvos Lied d-moll opus 543 (2013)

Ahvos Lied - Partitur.pdf (95.63 KB)

https%3A//soundcloud.com/andrew-noah-cap/ahvos-lied-d-moll-opus-543

[John Biggs]

Composer:John Biggs


A programmatic work inspired by the Lincolnshire landscape.


Under Lincolnshire Skies

[Deleted]

Anne Goodwin

Gloria

An unaccompanied choral piece (SATB) for use in the liturgy of today.

Gloria

[David Stowell]

David Stowell

4 Brief Moments for percussion.

4 short pieces for 2 percussion players


http%3A//www.soundcloud.com/dstowd/sets/brief-moments

Brief Moments -Score

[Kevin]

Kevin Riley

A fun piece for Wind Quintet


With a spring in his step

Just for fun!

[Deleted]

Tony Jefferson



This is a duet for viola and guitar, which I wrote ages ago but I still have a soft spot for it.


Summer evening by the river

[ceg]

Charles Gaskell

"They Told Me", for Baritone and Piano

Words are a fairly accurate translation by William Cory of an Ancient Greek poem by Kallimakhos. Written as part of a song-cycle called "Endings", the piece can also stand alone (as here).

Attachments:

They Told Me (Sib 5).sib (110.75 KB)

They Told Me.sib (45.22 KB)

[Ed Sharpe]

Ed Sharpe


59,620 Years (The Return of Mars)
59,620 Years (The Return of Mars)


The title is in reference to the fact that the planet Mars is made its closest approach to Earth this year (2003), which last occurred some 59,620 years ago. Aldo Vitagliano, of the University of Naples in Italy, calculated that Mars hasn’t had as close a brush with Earth since September 12, 57,617 B.C., when Neanderthals ruled but modern man had begun to make inroads.

When I was writing this piece I was envisioning in my mind short ballet to go with the music.

The form of the piece is a simple arch, A (slow introduction in 4/4 time), B (the "chant" section of alternating time signatures and a slow increase in tempo), C (the central calm section in 11/4 time, basically a passacaglia that build ups as each voice is added then slows thins out as each voice drops out), The return of the B section and finally the return of the A section acting as a coda

Ballet Outline

Section A (4/4)

o Through the void of space Mars approached ancient Earth.

Section B (Mixed Meters)

o Fearful a Neanderthal shaman prays to the clan’s gods.
o Slowly the clan joins the shaman in praying to their gods.
o The prayer becomes a chant
o The chanting breaks into a chaotic dance
o The shaman starts to pray again.

Section C (11/4)

o While the clan sleeps the red star waxes and wanes in the autumn sky.

Section B (mixed meters) (Return of)

o The Shaman starts to pray again.
o Slowly the clan joins the shaman in praying to their gods.
o The prayer becomes a chant
o The chanting breaks into a chaotic dance

Section A (4/4) (Return of) (Coda)

o Through the void of space Mars returns.

59,620 Years (The Return of Mars)

[paoloeriani]

Paolo Eriani
Rondeau Prestige for wind quintet.

Rondeau Prestige

On the same page there is a link to youtube with the recorded piece.
Cheers, I hope you'll enjoy.

[davidmonks]

Me: David Monks

Piece: Crux Fidelis

Description:

The text is an extract from the Latin hymn Pange Lingua Gloriosi, attributed St. Venantius Fortunatus, 6th century Bishop of Poitiers, in what is now France. It is suitable for use in Passion tide.

This is a choral arranement for SATB

Link: Crux Fidelis This includes the MP3 file.


Adrian, forgive me, but I am not clear. Do you require a Sib 5 file with a Score Exchange entry?

[Kevin]

Jun 15, 2013 9:31:31 GMT John Biggs said:

Composer:John Biggs

Composition: Under Lincolnshire Skies

A programmatic work inspired by the Lincolnshire landscape.


www.scoreexchange.com/scores/141180.html

I see you are only charging for your score and not the parts John. Is that what you wanted?

[adrianallan]

Jun 17, 2013 17:51:01 GMT davidmonks said:

Me: David Monks



Adrian, forgive me, but I am not clear. Do you require a Sib 5 file with a Score Exchange entry?

No David, just the Score Exchange link is fine

[djh255]

David Howard

Oriental Soup

Here's my entry - a bit of nonsense that started out with me playing around on the black notes of the piano when I was a kid and the tune has stuck with me over the years. Now with the advent of notational software I have been able to develop it and also move it to a more accessible key.

[Deleted]

John Summers

Solitary Music

For string quartet and Alto

A representative selection from this 9-movement work, inspired by the poem 'Ten City Poems' written in the late'80s by English poet/novelist Elaine Feinstein.

[adrianallan]

Jun 19, 2013 5:03:02 GMT @johnsummers said:

John Summers

"Solitary Music," 7th Movement

For string quartet and Alto

A representative selection from this 9-movement work, inspired by the poem 'Ten City Poems' written in the late'80s by English poet/novelist Elaine Feinstein.

www.scoreexchange.com/scores/137267.html

Have you also got an audio file for that, John? There is not an mp3 on the score exchange page.

[allanh]

Allan H. Jones

Meditation for Peace

Trying something different.

[Deleted]

David Harrison

Fanfare

A short piece for a brass quintet. No real inspiration beyond the harmonies themselves.

Fanfare sib 5.sib (102.76 KB)

EDIT: For those with troubles opening the Sibelius file (and because of the limit on data size for attachments), here is a link to the score:

www.scoreexchange.com/scores/141391.html

[Deleted]

"Have you also got an audio file for that, John? There is not an mp3 on the score exchange page."

Thanks, I'll organise something in the next 24-48.

John

[Deleted]

Well, I debated long and hard with myself about whether, on grounds of fairness, I should enter. My connection is so bad that listening to works of others here is so lengthy you would not believe it. Downloading an mp3 could take an hour or more, so I just don't do it. And now, I think Score Exchange only allows streaming of mp3's, no downloading, and that is impossible for me. Before Garritan improved it's GPO by taking away one of it's very useful functions, I could listen to Scorch using GPO on some files, but now I am simply out of the picture. Thus, since I can not listen to someone else's music, I think it may be unfair to ask them to consider mine.


With this in mind, here is my offering, 10:13


Flitteracy

The mp3 is pretty good. Not always my favorite, but today it is, mostly because it is rather uncharacteristic of me.

Richard

[adrianallan]

Jun 20, 2013 7:04:35 GMT @richard said:

Well, I debated long and hard with myself about whether, on grounds of fairness, I should enter. My connection is so bad that listening to works of others here is so lengthy you would not believe it. Downloading an mp3 could take an hour or more, so I just don't do it. And now, I think Score Exchange only allows streaming of mp3's, no downloading, and that is impossible for me. Before Garritan improved it's GPO by taking away one of it's very useful functions, I could listen to Scorch using GPO on some files, but now I am simply out of the picture. Thus, since I can not listen to someone else's music, I think it may be unfair to ask them to consider mine.


With this in mind, here is my offering, 10:13


Flitteracy

The mp3 is pretty good. Not always my favorite, but today it is, mostly because it is rather uncharacteristic of me.

Richard

Richard, you don't have to vote if it is too hard to download all the scores. However, you can still enter your piece, and I have added it to the list.

[John Biggs]

Hi David - I cant access your piece 'Fanfare' throough the sib file have you a link to the mp3 so I can hear this,

Thanks John.

[Deleted]

My name: Kedarnath Awati

My favorite piece:  Three Impertinences for Solo Piano


About these short pieces:  The first, Irony, was my first piece using serial technique...the title explains the mood.  The second, Innocence, was composed from an image of two children playing in a park, then running around before returning to the swing.  The title of the third (my real favorite!) Impatience again explains itself.

Attachments:

3 Impertinences 1 Irony.sib (108.3 KB)

3 Impertinences 2 Innocence.sib (112.82 KB)

3 Impertinences 3 Impatience.sib (119.42 KB)

[Deleted]

Wow, That was a tough decision to make... and I had to make 5 of them!!

A big thanks to Adrian for reminding me to vote last night. I am glad to have spent this evening appreciating all the music submitted.

[Kevin]

I expect that it was Jamie, there is so much great music to get through in this competition. I hope that other members and/or voters are enjoying this.

[Kevin]

Jun 19, 2013 21:45:21 GMT @hdavidm said:

David Harrison

Fanfare

A short piece for a brass quintet. No real inspiration beyond the harmonies themselves.

View Attachment

EDIT: For those with troubles opening the Sibelius file (and because of the limit on data size for attachments)l

You are no where near the 1MB limit!

[Deleted]

The mp3 file is apparently 1.33 MB, so it wouldn't let me attach it.

[Kevin]

Something to be said for allowing bigger attachments.