<p>I'm so annoyed at myself right now. Anyway, I submitted my music supplement to Amherst and it says, "Provide a recording of yourself in solo performance (if classical instrumental, voice, or jazz) or group performance (if jazz, rock, pop or other) of 2-4 tracks, no longer than 10 minutes total." I submitted two pieces that are ~13.5 minutes long total because I completely spaced and forgot to cut down the two pieces. Should I attempt to contact the admissions office with pieces that are cut down or just leave it and hope for the best? :(</p>
<p>Send them an email explaining your error and attach the correctly edited file in the same format that they required on the applications. Apologize briefly for your error. I’m sure it won’t be a big deal.</p>
<p>No need to do anything. Music supplement length is different from a strictly enforced word count as it depends on the repertoire. The listener to you recording, most likely a musician, will simply stop listening after 10 minutes, if needed, just like any competition where there is a time limit, the judges will stop you when your time is up but won’t disqualify you because your program is over the time limit. But I don’t think they will listen to the whole thing, probably not even over one minute. They can tell the level of performance after the first few measures, and for some well known pieces, the first chord will be it. My point is, no worry.</p>
<p>If you want a real life example, my son submitted music supplement to most of the schools that he applied. His romantic period piece was 17 minutes. And his claasical sonata first movement was 10 min. He submitted both as at least 2 pieces are required. No the idea of only recording half of the pieces never camp up because it’s not something a musician would do. He has been accepted by his EA school without problem.</p>