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Sponsored by The Dean of the Jacobs School of Music and the
Composition Department
"Dean's Prizes" are awarded in
four categories:
Category A
$500 for a work for orchestra or concert band with or without
electronics, with a minimum duration of 8 minutes. (minimum
orchestra size: 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons; 2 horns,
1 trumpet, 1 trombone; strings [multiple players on each part]). Providing that the winning score does not involve soloist or chorus and has a duration under 15 minutes, the department will make efforts to arrange for the performance of the work during summer or during the following season by one of the school's orchestras or bands.
Category B
$300 for a chamber or ensemble work for three to seventeen instruments, with or without voice or electronics, with a minimum duration of 8 minutes. Additionally, if the chosen student is returning to IU the following year or is graduating from the DM program, the winner of this category will be offered a $700 commission to compose a new work for ensemble which will be premiered by the IU New Music Ensemble. If the Cat. B prize winner is ineligible for the commission, another student will be chosen for that opportunity. Duration, instrumentation and a deadline for the new work are to be decided in consultation with director of the NME and the student's current teacher.
Students entering a work in Category B should indicate whether they wish to be considered for the Georgina Joshi competition. The Composition Department Faculty will choose 2 works from Category B as commission prize winners; one of these commissions will be the Georgina Joshi Commission for a work for solo voice and instruments. During the summer following the award, the director of the NME will meet with both commissioned composers to determine the length and instrumentation of the commissioned works.
Category C (Open to undergraduates only)
$300 for a chamber work for up to ten performers for any combination
of instruments and/or voices, with or without electronics, with a
minimum duration of 5 minutes.
Category D (A NEW PRIZE ESTABLISHED IN HONOR OF MORRIS AND SHEILA HASS)
$300 for a work that is either solely electroacoustic or that uses
electronics as a significant part of its instrumentation and that does
not conform to one of the categories described above. The minimum
duration of the submitted composition should be 7 minutes.
- Entries which fall outside the guidelines stated above for
each category, or which do not follow the conditions below,
cannot be considered.
- All compositions submitted must have been composed during
the student's tenure in the Indiana University School of Music.
- Students may submit different works in several categories,
but no more than two works in any single category. Works
submitted in Category C may not also be entered in Category B,
and vice-versa.
- Submitted scores should be reproduced and bound, and should
demonstrate a high standard of notation, whether copied by hand
or by computer.
- The duration of the composition should be indicated on the
title page.
- If the judges feel that no entry is worthy of the award,
none will be made. Decisions will be announced as soon as
feasible after the deadline.
- Winners from previous years are only allowed to enter
categories they have not yet won.
DEADLINE:
Entries should be left for Professor Dzubay at the School of Music
mailroom no later than 12:00 noon, on the Monday following Spring Break.
ELIGIBILITY:
Categories A,B,C: enrollment in composition. Cat. D: enrollment in composition or electronic music. [Fall enrollment provides eligibility for the following spring.]
The commissioned student (Cat. B) must be returning to IU the following year or graduating from the DM program.
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