<p>Need to adapt an SATB work for your small SAB choir? Have sopranos who cant sing divisi…but know a great trumpet player who is happy to help out? Need to simplify a viola part for a beginner?</p><p>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.</p><p><em>Arranging: A Beginners Guide</em> 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.</p><br>Learn how to:<br> • reconfigure a piece to fit your choral circumstances<br> • translate your ideas into practical, performable music<br> • turn a solo song into a choral piece<br> • write a descant<br> • transform a piano part into an arrangement for band or strings<br> • extend a hymn into an anthem with introduction, interludes, and coda<br> • create within copyright law<br><br>With numerous examples and helpful tipsplus humor and insightthis engaging and practical workbook is designed to make the arranging process simple and fun.

Publisher

GIA Publications

Arranger

Gerald Custer

Instrument

Reference

Pages

278

Stock code

G9124

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