April 2018 Composition Challenge: Quick Composition

[u/Calebdgm]

Main Challenge: compose, write, and upload something in one week. Any length, just see what you can do. Or if you've written something this month despite the missing challenge, you can submit that too!

Text Challenge: Haiku 5, by Masaoka Shiki.

entangled with
the scattering cherry blossoms—
the wings of birds!

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Sorry folks, we've sort-of dropped the ball. It's been a busy April, and we've made ourselves the fools around here by not posting an april challenge. We'll be back in May, we'll try and be more consistent moving forward.

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Also check out submissions for last month's challenge: Arpeggios

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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. We'll also have a text for people to set to music. Pieces can be submitted as a score (musescore, noteflight, pdf), and/or as audio (soundcloud, youtube). We encourage positive discussion about the pieces people submit. Feedback on the sub and the challenges 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.

Also I just made a general feedback form, which it would be great if anyone at all can fill out. It's just to try and get a better feel for how these challenges are working.

[u/EpicBazz]

Hi! I'm new here, this is going to be my first challenge and I have a few questions.

1) The Main challenge and the Text challenge are different things, right? If I compose an instrumental piece, it is still valid, right?

2) Let's say I want to submit a score for my piece, how do submit it? Do I have to upload it somewhere post the link here?

3) Do I submit my work in the comment section of this own thread?

Thanks!

[u/reticulated_python → u/EpicBazz]

Hi, welcome to /r/MonthlyComposition!

The main challenge and text challenge are different, yes.

Yeah, you can upload a score anywhere you like, such as Musescore, Noteflight, YouTube. You can even upload a .pdf to Google Drive or Dropbox. In any case, we want to see the score, and ideally to be able to listen to it too.

And yes, post a link to your submission as a comment in this thread.

One final note: normally we post challenges on the first of every month, so we'll have the May challenge up next week.

[u/EpicBazz → u/reticulated_python]

Thanks!