Louigi Verona
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One Voice Compo
Rules.
1. The tune must be a one voice melody, which means that only one note can be played at a time. You can use a second instrument to denote chords.
2. The tune can be of any length and can be presented in the following formats: midi, mod, s3m, xm, it, mp3, ogg.
3. The tune submitted should be composed by you and never before released.
4. The tune must be submitted before March the 1-st, 2006.
For more details, visit the site.
One Voice Compo Site (4842 hits)
For those wishing to get inspiration and/or learning from listening to music that is great, being just a melody and chords, here are the four links for you. These are English, Irish, Scottish and American folk tunes in midi format.
English
Scottish
Welsh
American
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DDspeed
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Hey! That's cool! 
I'll see what I can do.
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PartySan
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Cool, but I don't understand what to do... 
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Louigi Verona
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xTr1m
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Are PC Speaker tunes allowed? Theoretically yes, since the PC speaker can only play back one note at the time.
But applying the trick of playing CEGCEG...CEG 200 times in a second, makes a nice C major chord, so I don't know if this is allowed.
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Louigi Verona
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Don't make things complicated, guys. The purpose of this compo is to challenge your composing skills, not cheat the rules with original technical tricks. I doubt you can write CEG played 200 times a second into a score.
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1up
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Louigi Verona
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1. Are only monophonic instruments allowed? |
you are looking too technically into the matter. any instrument is allowed. however, you'll have to compose a monophonic melody with it, so...
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2. Are only a melody _and_ a chord line allowed? |
A melody and denoted chords. This is very important. You got a monophonic melody. The second instrument is used only to denote chords. Don't use the second instrument to draw a background theme of some kind. As said on the site, your melody should be easily put down to a score - a lead and chords written above it.
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3. Can an unlimited amount of monophonic instruments be used for the chords? |
that's a trick question, is it not?
why would you want to use an unlimited number of monophonic instrument to play chords? just use one polyphonic and all's well.
Since that simple idea seems very tricky to many, I'll explain what an OVC entry should be like with an example:
You sing a tune (your voice is monophonic) and with a guitar play the chords. there is no need to play fancy riffs, just play the chords at places when there is a chord change. as simple as that.
or play a flute melody and with a piano denote chords. for those who are not native English speakers, look up the word 'denote' in the dictionary for precise meaning.
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1up
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Louigi Verona wrote on 30 Jan. (13:02) :
1. Are only monophonic instruments allowed? |
you are looking too technically into the matter. any instrument is allowed. however, you'll have to compose a monophonic melody with it, so...
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2. Are only a melody _and_ a chord line allowed? |
A melody and denoted chords. This is very important. You got a monophonic melody. The second instrument is used only to denote chords. Don't use the second instrument to draw a background theme of some kind. As said on the site, your melody should be easily put down to a score - a lead and chords written above it.
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3. Can an unlimited amount of monophonic instruments be used for the chords? |
that's a trick question, is it not?
why would you want to use an unlimited number of monophonic instrument to play chords? just use one polyphonic and all's well.
Since that simple idea seems very tricky to many, I'll explain what an OVC entry should be like with an example:
You sing a tune (your voice is monophonic) and with a guitar play the chords. there is no need to play fancy riffs, just play the chords at places when there is a chord change. as simple as that.
or play a flute melody and with a piano denote chords. for those who are not native English speakers, look up the word 'denote' in the dictionary for precise meaning.
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Ok, now I understand what you want. But why is the deadline so far away.  The compo will be forgotten when the deadline is due.
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Provos
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Ahh, now I get it, for a second there I thought you were talking about using several monophonic instruments to play the chords  Sounds fun, I might enter...
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