A music competition is a public event designed to identify and award outstanding musical ensembles , soloists , composers , conductors , musicologists or compositions. Pop music competitions are music competitions which are held to find pop starlets .
14-488: (Redirected from Song Contest ) Song contest may refer to: Singing competition Songwriting competition A popularity contest amongst previously unreleased songs, notably the Sanremo Music Festival upon which many similar contests are based See also [ edit ] Category: Song contests for notable song contests Topics referred to by
28-819: A chance to play at the O2 Academy Leeds, Newcastle and Glasgow. SoundWave Music Competition is a high profile competition and the biggest music competition in Northern England and Scotland where entrants can win radio slots and recording within the best recording studios in the United Kingdom and Scotland. One of the oldest music competitions in the world is the International Naumburg Competition , in New York, which had its first competition in 1926. In recent years,
42-415: A public forum that identifies the strongest young players and helps them start their professional careers (see List of classical music competitions ). Popular instrumental ensembles such as brass bands and school bands have also long relied on competitions and festivals to promote their musical genres and recognize high levels of achievement. In the recent decades, large competitions have also developed in
56-434: Is an extremely competitive three-tiered contest, with local, regional, and national levels of competition. In some categories - middle school for example - the school bands from the most competitive urban districts that manage to reach the national level of competition are statistically among the top 0.5% in all of Japan . The renowned Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra is usually hired to make the definitive premier recordings of
70-569: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Singing competition Examples of music competitions in popular music include the Eurovision Song Contest , the Sanremo Music Festival , Open Mic UK , the All-Japan Band Association annual contest, Live and Unsigned , and American Idol . European classical art music uses competitions to provide
84-657: The genre of popular music , such as the Eurovision Song Contest and American Idol . The Open Mic UK and Live and Unsigned contests in the United Kingdom each garner approximately 10,000 contestants annually, making them the largest contests in the region. According to 2005 statistics, more than 650,000 visitors attend the World Music Contest (Kerkrade, the Netherlands), which has 19,000 contestants from over 30 countries, making it one of
98-786: The annual Great American Song Contest which is open to songwriters and lyric writers internationally. All-Japan Band Association The All Japan Band Association (AJBA) (全日本吹奏楽連盟/Zennihon Suisōgaku Renmei) is an organization that exists solely for the purpose of facilitating annual music competition among Japanese wind bands . This competition has largely promoted the concert band idiom (called buraban in Japanese), but in recent years AJBA has also included separate entries for marching band and smaller chamber music ensembles within its national competition. The AJBA competition includes categories for elementary school, middle school, high school, university, company, and community bands. It
112-460: The field of popular music to showcase performances by pop vocalists and rock bands (e.g. " Idol series " and " Battle of the Bands " events). One of the first and oldest large-scale musical contests is the Sanremo Music Festival which started in 1951 and was also the inspiration for the Eurovision Song Contest . The music competitions with the largest audiences are widely televised events in
126-488: The largest competitions in Europe. The All-Japan Band Association annual contest appears to be the world's largest music competition in terms of the number of active contestants, with approximately 800,000 competing musicians in more than 14,000 bands. A competition which has recently hit the United Kingdom music scene is called SoundWave Music Competition. This competition allows for singers, bands and all acts of all genres
140-577: The largest music competition in terms of number of global genres represented appears to be Sharq Taronalari , an enormous festival sponsored by UNESCO and the government of Uzbekistan. Various online music competitions for young musicians are now gaining popularity, including Unsigned Only, which is a global music contest based in United States, and Machan Music, an open and ongoing music contest based in India. The Songwriters Resource Network organizes
154-469: The number of individual entrants, operating budgets, or fans (as these contests involve popular music, are marketed internationally, and enjoy a much higher global profile). The following chart displays a breakdown of competing wind bands in terms of region and category: 1 October 2010 statistics Since the average Japanese wind band has around 45 to 55 members, the total national figure probably exceeds 800,000 contestants in any given year, and according to
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#1732787463766168-623: The required pieces commissioned each year for AJBA's national competition. The final (national) stage of the competition is regularly held in Fumon Hall, an auditorium located on the campus of the Rissho Kosei Kai religious organization in central Tokyo . Not to be confused with the Japan Marching Band Association (JMBA) (一般社団法人日本マーチングバンド協会) The All Japan Band Association annual contest appears to be
182-420: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Song contest . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Song_contest&oldid=980332011 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
196-526: The world's largest music competition in terms of the number of active contestants, with approximately 800,000 competing musicians in more than 14,000 bands. The other largest music competitions in the world are the Eurovision and American Idol competitions in the field of pop music singing. While these do not exceed the AJBA competition in terms of the number of competitors, they may be larger in terms of
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