Description
Need to adapt an SATB work for your small SAB choir? Have sopranos who canÂ’t sing divisiÂ…but know a great trumpet player who is happy to help out? Need to simplify a viola part for a beginner?
In straightforward, step-by-step fashion, authors Blake Henson and Gerald Custer show how to take a piece of existing music and craft a workable, polished arrangement that meets the needs of your ensemble in the real world.
Arranging: A BeginnerÂ’s Guide is full of ideas, examples, and exercises to try out and adapt, grounded in the belief that arranging is not only a necessary skill, it is one that is relatively easy to learn and master. This book is written for conductors, church musicians, teachers, and students at all levels.
Learn how to:
• reconfigure a piece to fit your choral circumstances
• translate your ideas into practical, performable music
• turn a solo song into a choral piece
• write a descant
• transform a piano part into an arrangement for band or strings
• extend a hymn into an anthem with introduction, interludes, and coda
• create within copyright law
With numerous examples and helpful tips—plus humor and insight—this engaging and practical workbook is designed to make the arranging process simple and fun.