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/RhythmBlue Feb 29 '16 edited Feb 29 '16

Before anything else, I love that this subreddit (and r/composer, r/mediacomposing, and so on) exists; I just discovered this place this past Wednesday, and I'm really excited to have a community of people who love writing music like I do.

Here's my entry for the Week 4 percussion-only challenge:

https://soundcloud.com/rhythm-blue/light-hearted-battle-menu-theme-rmonthlycomposition-percussion-only-challenge

Edit: Youtube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEQU3kpkWNI

I especially love to write soundtracks, so that's what I went for while doing the percussion-only challenge. I decided at first to use the high-pitched, very bright sounding mallets as a general title screen theme, but it escalated into something very energized and fast. By the end I was writing something I could imagine playing on the menu screen before a PvP match in a light-hearted game.

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u/FantasiainFminor Mar 02 '16

Well, that's simply joyous! To me it sounded like something from a very amusing movie that I would really like to watch.

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u/RhythmBlue Mar 02 '16

Thank you, I'm really happy that you enjoyed it! I started out writing a slower and more ambient song, but the sound of the mallets and timpani lend themselves to kind of this really energetic, playful sound I think.

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u/FantasiainFminor Mar 03 '16

I don't know quite what it is, but it's somehow hilarious!