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omg OMG OMGOMGOMG Thanks everyone....this is my first time getting awards at YC's Award Ceremony... I am so honored! (Saw your shoutout, Austy) Wierdest Ensemble, Most Improved and Staff's Pet...hahahaha. I will continue to strive hard! And Austenite my goodness you won 7 Compositional awards and 2 Member awards...9 YC Oscars... Congratulations to you! And everyone else too! ^Congratulations to Ian for not winning the Annoying Member award hehe :) p.s Was Phil THAT bad...? =/

Austenite deserved it. He's a great composer and a real contributor to YC. Well done champ!

Anyone who has an agenda could argue anything from anything to anything.

I'm with Ravel's law on this one: the starting points and the compositional thought processes are pretty much the same for serial, tonal and other musics, but I would add that serial music, for the most part, isn't even that far removed from past music as people seem to think. The focus is still very much on motivic development and variation. There are also similar melodic principles to those found in tonal music in play for the most part such as period form melodies, wave and arch-shaped melodic contours, sequential writing etc. In terms of form, most serial music isn't that far removed from the past either. Every single serial piece written by Webern is in either sonata, rondo, binary, ternary or variation form, except for his vocal music which still makes heavy use of imitative writing and canon. I'll grant you that some of the Darmstadt composers created some absolute monstrosities that aren't worth the paper they're written on, but they are not representative of all, or even most, serial music.

I'm not sure how creating your own rules makes you prioritize them over the resulting music. It certainly takes a lot more time (unless you have a means to generate entire pieces of 'music' and are willing to consistently recycle them, as Wuorinen does).After you have a plan to accomplish whatever it is you want to do (precomposition), then you can write music. You're starting from the same place as someone who might choose to write a piece in the style of Mozart (though maybe a little exhausted).

Serialism is more maths than music. I like maths, but I prefer music.

Thanks everybody!!!! It's really significant for me to have the first place in a competition here, as this is my first^^ Congratulations to all the other participants too!

Finalists: We will be going back to school tomorrow. I am re auditioning the students upon their return and will read the pieces sometime between tomorrow and next Thursday

Hey maaaan congratulations, really well done.

I'm still stunned. But let me make a try... *shows up late, runs through the red carpet, is greeted by a mocking Billy Crystal and a thrilled Anne Hathaway, while Christian Bale shows up pushing a cart full of statuettes* Acceptance Speech Follows :facepalm: : This comes as a major surprise for me, as there were so many quality compositions on the run :blush: . I can barely find any words :happytears:, except for a really big and heartily Thank You to the whole YC community, especially for those whose support showed up through the vote. I must also congratulate the other winners, esp. Sojar Voglar, who justly carried the coveted award for YC's Best Composer, as well as the (very fitting) Old Timer's Award and the Most Underrated Piece (I should add that his music as a whole is still underrated in this site). I also celebrate that our Rookie of the Year is very deservedly going to Sarastro, a very helpful and knowledgeable musician who has made a significant contribution despite having been a member for such a short time. And I must note the breakout year for CJplumblossom, who got not only the Weirdest Ensemble award but also the Most Improved Composer in 2012 (hey, you're also Staff's Pet :toothygrin:!) HeckelphoneNYC will surely go bananas about finally carrying an award - Most Reasonable Member, nothing less! (BTW, the fact that one of our youngest members is also deemed as the most reasonable should tell us something about the average maturity level of YC :pinch: ). And Jaap Cramer just can't stop winning, this time getting the Most Skilled Debater. I'd like also to congratulate Tokkemon for being outspoken in his political views ;) no matter if they are shared or not by the rest of us. On the less bright side, it's a pity that we're losing our just-named Best Moderator, as Morivou has announced his intention to leave YC :( - as did Elizabeth, last year's winner and hands-down our Most Missed Member. And also that Wayne-Scales has managed to retain his Most Disliked Staff Member title, despite a stiff challenge from the actively campaigning Ananth :P . But 2012 has been also the year of the Triple Crown for Composer Phil (aka Ravel's law): Most Annoying, Least Missed and Staff Nightmare awards (although I wonder if he could have pulled out the feat if Dominus Vobiscum hadn't dropped out from the race :evil: ). Nevertheless, I have little less to add. Congrats to everyone else - and a million thanks! *waves one statuette, hugs and kisses Anne Hathaway again until pushed back by Adam Shulman, winks at Jennifer Lawrence, bows out*