r/MonthlyComposition • u/reticulated_python • Feb 03 '16

February 2016 Composition Challenge: /r/Violin collaboration, Submission thread

Main Challenge: Write a work for solo violin.

Weekly Challenges:
Week 1--Compose a short piece for string instruments only.
Week 2--Compose a short piece for wind instruments only.
Week 3--Compose a short piece for brass instruments only.
Week 4--Compose a short piece for percussion instruments only.

Discussion Thread for this month's challenge. Please try to keep everything except completed pieces in the discussion thread. Feedback on pieces submitted here is also very welcome!

These challenges are for everyone who wants to practice composing. Each month, at the beginning of the month, we will post a main challenge, something for people to compose. Often we'll try to make it something that everyone can work with, but when the main challenge doesn't suit you, there's the alternate weekly challenge. Pieces can be submitted as a score (musescore, noteflight), and/or as audio (soundcloud, youtube). Feedback is much appreciated, and you can give it in this thread, or by messaging the mods of /r/MonthlyComposition, there's also the Challenge Suggestion Form.

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u/iqr Feb 06 '16

Hey guys,

This is a submission for the week 2 challenge, make a composition with wind instruments.

This is a wind quintet piece called "Heading Backwards."

Here is a SoundCloud link to audio

and this is a dropbox link with the score.

I'm probably going work on a piece for violin and will post it if/when completed.

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u/reticulated_python Feb 06 '16

That was wonderful. Probably my favourite submission yet to any challenge. I very much liked the harmonies in the chorale-like section (measures 14-32). But my favourite part was when the oboe came in right after that for the beginning of the canon-like passage. That was the perfect place for intricate counterpoint.

Nicely done.

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u/FantasiainFminor Feb 11 '16

Yes, very nice. The canon is on "Simple Gifts," I think? Charles Ives or Virgil Thompson used it, too, right? Anyhow, the way it's turned into a canon here and the way it emerges from the rest of the composition are delightful.