MODERN/CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
Entry window October 1 - 31, 2022 You can enter as performer or as a composer
Solo, duos, small and large groups (any number of performers). Your vocals may be on microphone and electronically or digitally enhanced. Any production method accepted: live, solo with piano or guitar accompaniment, back track, electronic music, etc. Your video may have editing. One piece/composition per entry. You will compete in age categories Young Musicians: age 7 and younger Junior 1: age 8 and 9 Junior 2: ages 10 to 13 Senior: ages 14 to 18 Collegiate: age 19 to 26 Open: 27+ Mixed: mixed age groups Your age is calculated as on October 1st.
IYMC is offering an international music composition competition in JUNE 2021.
https://www.internationalyouthmusiccompetitions.org/june.html Get your entries ready composers! From their website: Compose in any style, any genre Compose for vocal, instrumental, solo, small or large groups and electronic compositions Composer "pairs" allowed, e.g. Composer/Lyricist combos Beginner, novice, amateur and professional composers welcome One piece, own choice No time limit, judges reserve the right to evaluate only the first 15 minutes of lengthy compositions You will compete in age categories for 1st, 2nd, 3rd prizes and special awards: Young Musicians: age 7 and younger Junior 1: age 8 and 9 Junior 2: ages 10 to 13 Senior: ages 14 to 18 Amateur: age 19 to 26 Open: 27+ Age calculated as on June 1st. Submission formats: pdf notation file, audio track mp3, mp4, uploaded to YouTube Sheet music pdf preferred but not required Entry June 1-30, 2021 Entry fee USD40 We have had an amazing response in our first International Composition Competition. Thank you for your entries for the 2020 CMC (Creative Music CLass) International Composition Competition. We received entries from across the world: USA, China, Italy, Ukraine, Romania, India, the UK and Bulgaria.
It was delightful and inspiring to see and hear the beautiful, imaginative and creative work of aspiring composers from across the globe. As a reward, CMC (Creative Music Class) is giving the winners free entry into the 2021 International Youth Music Competitions Composition Competition. https://www.internationalyouthmusiccompetitions.org/june.html Again congratulations on this wonderful achievement! Some of the winning entries below: (1) Martin Krystev - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e67FUh9ngNw Ugo Raimondi https://youtu.be/pKpIhW6DJfc Antonina Zhurak ![]() This lesson plan, Community Canvas, builds off the work of an Atlanta based teaching artists, Karin Mervis. Her visual arts murals and whole-school art projects are inspiring in this time of social distance and virtual learning. I adapted some of this and thought about how to do whole-school composition. Why I love this lesson:
community canvas work she did at a local elementary (primary) school. She says: “25 years later... whilst still loving the method of creating Community Canvases with any population ... in this case 5th grade ‘farewell’ legacy piece... I have learnt along the way to “look closer”... “ Hone-in” on best practices and to bring more meaning to the moments with each student... in this case the sky pieces were done as collaborations... finding a common symbol/ logo for each team to include, that represented a part of their school creed:))) The ‘self-portrait’ people were created by brainstorming ‘how to make the world a better place’ and what mattered individually to each student... they then re- interpreted their findings into symbolic representations of line color shape and pattern. Each ‘person’ on the painting has specific meaning; the students went above and beyond...!” Let me highlight a few here so you can make a choice as to the best fit for your situation, program, school or studio. 1. Secret Codes https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/secret-codes-music- composition-lesson-11723170 This idea focuses on having a student use the musical letters of their name to generate a small 3 to 4 note motif. Use this idea and have this piece of “self-identity” as building blocks for a large-scale work. The musical letters can also spell out other aspects of belonging, community, group identity, etc. Layer, align, stagger, harmonize, or link-up all these motifs. Glue down onto large canvas to have a display for website or school site. 2. Virtual Choir by Eric Whitacre https://ericwhitacre.com/the-virtual-choir Those of you who have attended my presentations know that I feature this idea as a more advanced project for large groups. This does require more advanced skills and a big tech effort, but we do have schools and teachers who have done similar projects. 3. Very Variation https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/very-variation-music- composition-lesson-plan-11723849 This lesson explores variation form and is an obvious fit for expanding basic motifs. Students could compose their very basic self-identifying motif and as a build-on this could be passed up along higher classes to compose variations. For example, first grade composes the basic motif, second and third grades set those motifs to rhythm, fourth and fifth grade compose a variation (weaving in their own self-identifying motif), sixth and seventh grades compose another variation, and etc. All of these are then assembled school- wide through linking all contributions into one large composition for display or performance. 4. Chord Cards https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/chord-cards-music- composition-lesson-plan-12274092 A very simple approach to building motifs and composing are to provide small building blocks, i.e., chord cards. Each class could have one chord, e.g., 1st grade has CEG, 2nd grade has DFA, 3rd grade has FAC, etc. Within the grade these three notes are used at their level of rhythm writing to create short melodic fragments. Link the fragments so each grade has a melodic phrase in that particular harmony. Then link the chord-based melodic fragments school-wide in a harmonic design. For example: You can see how we even have a modulation to the dominant major! 5. Word Painting https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/word-painting-music- composition-lesson-plan-12273953 Word Painting provides a more advance level of composing using words/lyrics to make a composition. This is an option for school wide composition as well as each class or grade level could have a topic or verse to contribute towards a large-scale piece. Some groups could simply compose the introduction, others a rhythmic accompaniment, and more advanced classes could compose the melodies set to words. This is also a project that could work well with your Language Arts classes in Arts Integrated schools. Students could write the lyrics/verse in LA and could bring this over to music class to explore setting words to music using word painting. There are many more options using a basic music composition lesson plan and figuring out to link, combine or layer them. Please visit my store at TES for lesson plans in music composition. Many new lesson plans recently uploaded.
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/adri_jvr Fun, engaging instrument building projects have so many benefits and tie right in with STEAM and Arts-Integrated school curriculums. Building an instrument taps into acoustics, science, crafts, art, math, music knowledge, music composition and so much more. Check out this blog for easy projects
https://artsycraftsymom.com/diy-musical-instruments-for-kids-to-make-and-play/ Explore composing with a drone bass
https://ask.audio/articles/how-sound-affects-you-using-drones-in-your-music |
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