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Let's begin immediately! I'm quite excited for this!!!! Here are some raw "ideas" for the competitions. As the previous ones have not been that successful (because, well, people didn't finish their works), I thought of some simpler guidelines for the next ones. 1) A small fugue on a "famous" subject (something commercial, or from a movie, or a game, or a dead composer...); 2) Solo melodic instrument work; 3) A 1-movement concertino alla Vivaldi, but with some "updates" that differs this one from the baroque one; 4) A suite of dances, not the ones from the past (minuet, sarabande, allemande...), but things from the XXI century (or even invented dances); 5) A capella choir work on a certain text (maybe something not religious); 6) A stage music for a scene or dance (we can chose a "musicless" video from youtube or something like that); 7) Variations on a theme (what do you think of Seikilos epitaph?) 8) A second movement for Austenite's "Northanger Sonata" =D; 9) We simply chose a genre (nocturne, ballade, fugue, sonata, arabesque, villancico, tombeau, passacaglia) and people compose.

This piece is about the suffering and the passion of Jesus Christ. " Tenebrae (Latin for "shadows" or "darkness") is a Christian religious service celebrated in the Holy Week within Western Christianity, on the evening before or early morning of Monday, Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday." (Read more at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenebrae) With this composition, I'm trying to let pure emotions lead the melody and the harmonies. The first part is about the suffering, but from the middle part to the last (repeated) canon-like part of the piece, I tried to draw up the salvation.

Numbers 1 and 3 scare me. Numbers 2, 7, and 9 strike me as the easiest and most appealing. Numbers 4, 5, and 6 sound challenging but fun. And Number 8 seems downright sacrilegious. Of course those are my own perceptions and I'm sure the company I'm in on this forum wouldn't balk at any of these in future competitions!

This is a suite made of some new and not-so-new material. The name "Lake Suite" (Suíte Lacustre) comes from the surname of my friend Deborah Lago (lago = lake, in Portuguese), to whom this suite is dedicated. The movements are: 1 - Prelude 2 - Cantabile 3 - Elegy 4 - Ricercare 5 - Interlude 6 - Toccata

Ok so if Danish is running the competitions does that basically entail starting the thread and setting up the parameters of the competition? And does this mean that if I enter and lose to him that I can file a complaint citing bias and/or foul play?

I must have missed this on the first pass as I would have definitely remembered such a memorable work. A lovely piece!

Yet we need that feedback. We don't want to look like a board of dilettantes who believe to know what we are doing but aren't able to appreciate when someone else does. Of course we need the guidance of truly experienced and knowledgeable composers, who will not look down to us but rather help us to learn and grow.

Maybe it's time to restart the whole monthly (or w/e) competitions again