Fife Festival of
Music
Regulations
There are 14 general regulations categorised below. Click on a word to see the details of a specific regulation.
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1 ENTRY QUALIFICATION
Participants should enter the class appropriate to their standard and should
only perform music at the correct level for that class.
Participants may not enter more than one class in any section.
INTRODUCTORY: |
Up to and including Associated Board Grade 1 |
ELEMENTARY: |
Covering Associated Board Grades 2 + 3 |
INTERMEDIATE: |
Covering Associated Board Grades 4 + 5 |
ADVANCED: |
Covering Associated Board Grades 6 +7 |
OPEN: |
Minimum Standard Associated Board Grade 8 |
NON-COMPETITIVE: |
For musicians of any standard and any age |
Where age restriction applies, qualifying date is the first day of the Festival.
2 ENTRIES
(a) All entries must be accompanied by two stamped, addressed
envelopes to cover return of acknowledgement and admission slips.
Entries will not be accepted without the envelopes.
(b) No entry is valid unless the entry form has been fully completed and
is accompanied by the appropriate entry fee which is non-returnable. Cash
should not be sent through the post and cheques and postal orders should
be made payable to the "Fife Festival of Music". The entry fee
for individual or duet class is £12; for all other classes the fee
is £15.
(c) (i) Each entry, on a separate entry form, must be received no later
than 1st October by the Fife Festival Entry Office, P.O. Box 26800, Kirkcaldy
KY2 5UG
Entries received by 15th September will attract a discount of £2
per entry.
(ii) Entries will be acknowledged by 1st November: if by then you
have not received an acknowledgement, you should contact the Entry Office
as above.
(d) Additional entry forms can be obtained from the Fife Festival Entry
Office as above or be downloaded from the Festival
Entry page. Entry forms are not available from Auchterderran Centre.
Entry forms may be photocopied.
(e) Admission slips, showing the date, time and place of each class entered,
will be sent to each participant before the festival, and these must be
handed in to the check-in Steward on arrival at the venue. These will also
give, where possible, an approximate indication of the anticipated time
of the end of the class.
(f) The committee reserves the right to accept or reject any entry without
assigning any reasons.
3 COMPETITIVE CLASSES
(a) Any choir, group or competitor not present at the beginning of a class
may be disqualified, except in circumstances over which there is no control.
Participants are strongly advised to check the details which they have been
given with the timetable in the printed programme, and to query any discrepancy
in good time.
(b) In any competitive class, no competitor may play the same instrument
or sing in more than one ensemble/group or choir within the class. However,
substitution in a choir or an instrument group is permitted in the case
of illness or other sudden unavoidable reason but only where a musical presentation
would suffer as a result of a missing player/singer, any such substitution
could be found from within another ensemble/group or choir within the same
class. Such dispensation is included to avoid any ensemble/group or choir
being excluded form competition through no fault of their own.
c) Every effort must be made to ensure that participants are entered for
the class appropriate to their standard. Should it be necessary to enquire
about any issue regarding standards or judging, the enquiry should be directed
to a member of the Executive, e.g. Chairman, Vice Chairman, Administrator.
Neither Adjudicators nor Stewards should be engaged upon such activities.
d) Choirs/Vocal Ensembles should not present the same programme/items in
more than one class.
4 REGULATIONS FOR NON-COMPETITIVE CLASSES
(a) In non-competitive classes, neither marks nor order of merit or prizes
will be awarded. If time permits there may some discussion of general points
with participants.
(b) For each entry there will be an individual confidential report from
the adjudicator, together with a certificate.
(c) In Primary School classes, two 10 minute entries will be permitted from
any one school.
However, large schools may enter more than two groups on the understanding
that only two groups from any one school will be timetabled in any one session.
Separate entry forms must be completed.
NB Maximum number of performers in one group is 66.
(d) In Secondary School classes, total performance time of groups
from one school must not exceed 30 minutes including set-up time.
5 CLASSES WITH LARGE NUMBER OF ENTRIES
Such classes may be split into smaller sections so that each entrant is
given the opportunity to perform all prepared material. Where a trophy is
to be awarded in a class which has been thus split, the adjudicator will
decide on the best performance over both or all sections.
6 ACCOMPANISTS/ACCOMPANIMENTS
Participants must provide their own accompanists. In competitive classes,
accompaniments must be live. Where a group accompaniment is appropriate,
the maximum number of players is three. The Festival will aim to eradicate
any clashes of participants being scheduled in two classes at the same time
(such things happen when a solo and a group event coincide for a participant
and the Festival has no knowledge of the membership of any group). However,
the Festival cannot give any undertaking to avoid or reschedule clashes
where an accompanist has such a problem.
7 TEST PIECES
(a) Printed repeats must be played unless otherwise stated in the Set Piece
list.
(b) Any edition specified MUST be adhered to, and no transposition
from the key in which any test piece is written will be allowed.
(c) Availability of music has been checked.
8 OWN CHOICE
Participants in classes with "own choice" tests are instructed
that:
(a) (i) for competitive classes, a copy of own choice music must
be handed to the Check-in Steward and should be clearly marked with the
competitor's name and class number.
(ii) while not essential for non-competitive classes, it is desirable that
for these classes this is also done.
(b) at the conclusion of the class, participants will be responsible for
uplifting their own music from the Adjudicator's Clerk.
(c) maximum performance times stated will be strictly observed in the interest
of accurate timing of classes.
9 THE COPYRIGHT REGULATIONS MUST BE OBSERVED
Copies of Own Choice Works for the Adjudicator
The Music Publishers Association has issued a revised Code of Practice on
copying copyright works, and the following concession is made for copying
own choice pieces from volumes only for the adjudicator.
Other items must not be photocopied without the permission of the copyright
holder in each case.
"When an Own Choice work is selected from a publication containing several different works which is not published separately, one copy may be made for the use of an adjudicator at a competition or festival provided that the competitor or participant has already purchased his/her own copy and that the copy made is retained and destroyed by the Administrator of the Competition or Festival immediately after the event. This permission specifically does not apply to set works."
10 ADJUDICATOR'S COMMENTS/MARK SHEET
The adjudicator's report will normally be available to each participant
at the end of the class and can be uplifted from the Adjudicator's Clerk.
The adjudicator's decision will be final. Categories of achievement are
explained on the Festival Entry page.
NB Where a trophy is to be awarded over two or more classes, the adjudicator may retain the comment sheets until the decision on the award is made.
11 CERTIFICATES
Certificates will be awarded to all participants and for competitive classes
will show the category awarded by the adjudicator.
12 TROPHIES
Where a trophy is available in a class, it will be awarded for the most
meritorious performance in the adjudicator's opinion. Where a trophy is
available over several classes, the most meritorious performance overall,
in the adjudicator's opinion, will gain the award. In either case, performances
in the O and V categories only will be considered for the award of a trophy.
NB Trophies will be presented at the end of the class or classes for which they are awarded. There will be no presentations of trophies at the Festival Concert.
13 FESTIVAL CONCERT
Invitations may be extended to certain entrants to participate in the Festival
Concert. This will be entirely at the discretion of the Committee.
14 MISCELLANEOUS
Members of the public are admitted to all classes.
The Festival programme is published in January.
Any question arising which is not covered by these regulations, or the notes
against individual classes in the syllabus, should be addressed to the Administrator,
who will if necessary, refer it to the Committee. The Committee's decision
will be final.
Festival contact details are available on the Contact Us page.
Enquiries are neither dealt with at nor should be directed to the Auchterderran Centre or Lochgelly High School.