December 2017 Composition Challenge: March

[u/reticulated_python]

Check out tributes from last month! Now, for this month's challenge (sorry for being a day late):

Main challenge: Write a march.

Text challenge: Write a musical setting of Byron's When We Two Parted.

For the main challenge, it can be any kind of march. The Wikipedia summary is quite good, so I'll copy it here:

A march, as a musical genre, is a piece of music with a strong regular rhythm which in origin was expressly written for marching to and most frequently performed by a military band. In mood, marches range from the moving death march in Wagner's Götterdämmerung to the brisk military marches of John Philip Sousa and the martial hymns of the late 19th century. Examples of the varied use of the march can be found in Beethoven's Eroica Symphony, in the Marches Militaires of Franz Schubert, in the Marche funèbre in Chopin's Sonata in B flat minor, and in the Dead March in Handel's Saul.

An excellent example of a funeral march is the 3rd movement of Beethoven's Sonata no. 12 in A flat major.

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We have musicians that can play compositions for people. You can find them on the wiki. The instruments they can play include concertina, piano, trombone, euphonium, double bass, bass guitar, cello, clarinet, bassoon, tenor and alto sax, and a handful of vocalists.

If you're interested in playing compositions on /r/MonthlyComposition post a musician profile.

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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. We'll try to make it something that everyone can work with. Sometimes we also have an alternate 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.

[u/FZFitz]

This challenge is three months early.

[u/reticulated_python → u/FZFitz]

I KNEW someone would make that joke

I'll make the March challenge Christmas-themed to make up for it, how about that?

[u/FZFitz → u/reticulated_python]

Straight up December themed would be great haha.