Quid pro musica
May. 9th, 2007 04:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhuI need to practice my composition skills and get feedback from performers. Since I know that many of you are singers, I thought I'd offer to write a song for you, if you offer to sing it for me. Here's how it would work:
* You pick a text that you'd like to sing. (More detalis on the text are below)
* You tell me your voice part or range, and how difficult a piece you feel up to tackling. (Easy, medium, hard.) If you don't plan to sing it yourself, or if you want a duet, trio, or quartet, please indicate this information for each of the voices.
* Sometime over the summer, I intend (but do not promise) to send you a PDF of your piece and two MP3 files -- one of the accompaniment, and one with the voice part included (for rehearsal, dontcha know).
* You intend (but do not promise) to learn the piece and record yourself (or your designated singers) singing it, and to send me that recording along with your feedback on what about the piece you (dis)liked or found at the wrong difficulty level to learn and sing.
Some boring details:
* The text should be reasonably short; I'm aiming to write songs that're between 1 and 2 minutes long.
* The text should be in a language with whose sounds I am familiar: English, Hebrew, or German. If it's not in English, please include a translation.
* The text can be original or not, but let's keep copyright issues out of this -- if you don't own it, it must be in the public domain.
* You may submit more than one proposal.
* I reserve the right to prioritize based on whatever criteria seem appropriate: first-come-first-served, writing for a variety of voice parts or difficulty levels, whether I know you, whether your text inspires me, the high temperature on June 1, etc. If you propose a text that I feel I cannot set, I will let you know and you may choose another.
Please feel free to post links to this elsewhere; I'll announce a cutoff in the unlikely event that I become swamped....
* You pick a text that you'd like to sing. (More detalis on the text are below)
* You tell me your voice part or range, and how difficult a piece you feel up to tackling. (Easy, medium, hard.) If you don't plan to sing it yourself, or if you want a duet, trio, or quartet, please indicate this information for each of the voices.
* Sometime over the summer, I intend (but do not promise) to send you a PDF of your piece and two MP3 files -- one of the accompaniment, and one with the voice part included (for rehearsal, dontcha know).
* You intend (but do not promise) to learn the piece and record yourself (or your designated singers) singing it, and to send me that recording along with your feedback on what about the piece you (dis)liked or found at the wrong difficulty level to learn and sing.
Some boring details:
* The text should be reasonably short; I'm aiming to write songs that're between 1 and 2 minutes long.
* The text should be in a language with whose sounds I am familiar: English, Hebrew, or German. If it's not in English, please include a translation.
* The text can be original or not, but let's keep copyright issues out of this -- if you don't own it, it must be in the public domain.
* You may submit more than one proposal.
* I reserve the right to prioritize based on whatever criteria seem appropriate: first-come-first-served, writing for a variety of voice parts or difficulty levels, whether I know you, whether your text inspires me, the high temperature on June 1, etc. If you propose a text that I feel I cannot set, I will let you know and you may choose another.
Please feel free to post links to this elsewhere; I'll announce a cutoff in the unlikely event that I become swamped....