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COMA
is a nationwide association that exists to
promote contemporary musicmaking at an amateur
level. It was felt necessary in the face of
extreme difficulty that most contemporary music
seemed to hold for performers at the time. There
are regional ensembles. The Birmingham one, for
example, meets about once a month, and as well as
some professional composers who produce a volume
of pieces for them (nationally), a number of
local amateur composers also contribute pieces.
Particularly successful pieces can get passed
around between regions. Since the composition of
an ensemble on any particular day in any region
is unpredictable, COMA seeks pieces of flexible
scoring and this can be a serious challenge for
the composer. A "COMA piece" can
therefore be totally graphic, include staves with
dots etc. but no clef, or specified pitch with
many transpositions of parts available etc. |
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