Arranging A Beginners Guide (Softcover Book)

<p>Need to adapt an SATB work for your small SAB choir? Have sopranos who can’t 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 Beginner’s 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 tips—plus humor and insight—this engaging and practical workbook is designed to make the arranging process simple and fun.