Guidelines:
Composers can participate without limits of age and nationality.
Each composer can send one or more works of a maximum duration of 3 minutes relating to the offer-tory rite. Each work, despite the freedom of form, style and language, must necessarily fully understand one of the texts proposed in the document attached 1 and reflect those characteristics that the liturgi-cal moment prescribes, as suggested by the General Instruction of the Roman Missal 74: ” The singing to the offertory accompanies the procession with which the gifts are brought; it lasts at least until the gifts have been placed on the altar. The rules governing this chant are the same as those provided for the entrance hymn (cf.n.48 [: The hymn is performed alternately by the choir and the people, or by the cantor and the people, or everything by the people or by the people alone. schola. You can use either the antiphon with its psalm, as found in the Graduale romanum or in the Graduale simplex, or another chant suitable for the sacred action, for the character of the day or time, and whose text has been approved by the Episcopal Conference]). It is always possi-ble to accompany the offertory rites with song, even if the procession with the gifts does not take place ”.
Works may be submitted in the following categories:
A) Monodic and organ accompaniment.
B) 4 voices a cappella (without subdivisions) in organic mixed or even voices: SATB / SSAA / TTBB
C) 4 voices (without subdivisions) in mixed or even voices: SATB / SSAA / TTBB with organ accompaniment
Candidates must submit an application to the email address: callforscores@simc-italia.com at-taching:
• the full score (or scores if you send more than one) in PDF format,
• duly completed registration form,
• receipt of the participation fee.
The participation fee for non-registered SIMC composers is € 40 while for SIMC members regular-ly registered, for PIAMS students and for students of Italian Conservatories the fee is € 20. For each additional work presented, the candidate must integrate with half of the fee (for each composition).
The payment of the registration fee will be made by bank transfer (causal: Call Nuova Musica Corale per la Liturgia Eucaristica 2020), using the following data:
Società Italiana Musica Contemporanea
IBAN: IT 38 Z 05034 12700 0000 00005765
The scores must be received no later than 11.59pm (Italian time) on January 31st, 2021.
The SIMC will then communicate the first 6 selected works that will be performed by the Mu-sical Chapel of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Bergamo, directed by the master Cristian Gen-tilini, during the liturgical year 2020-2021 with the possibility of further subsequent performances. , al-so in concert form.
For information: segreteria.simc@gmail.com
Deadline 31 January 2021
Website simc-italia.com
