Posts from the ‘Arranging’ Category
In part III we began to develop the harmony with some voice leading and got as far as the following. Audio for Figure 4 With a similar approach we could now just harmonise every note of the melody, which you can see in the figure below. Figure 5 – solo piano Figure 5 – piano [...]
As mentioned in the article “Introduction to Orchestration”, the brass section came to the fore during the Romantic period and Beethoven with the development of the valve which allowed chromaticism. Before this, the brass instruments relied on the overtone series and were mainly used as a textural device rather than one for carrying melody. The [...]
In parts I and II of this series we developed the harmony for a well-known melody using the major scale harmony. In part II the triads were extended to seventh chords, giving the harmony a bit more depth and colour, but now let us begin to make things a bit more interesting. It’s time to [...]
Orchestral Instrumentation: Strings The string section is composed of four instrument sections. The orchestral sections are often referred to as choirs stemming from the organisation of the sounds, or rather the pitch range, of the different sections – from higher to lower: soprano, alto, tenor, and bass. The equivalent sections of the strings are divided [...]
Approaches To Arranging: Developing Harmony – Part II In Part I of this article series, I demonstrated how primary triads of the major scale could be applied to a popular melody as functional harmony and how the triads of the rest of the major scale could be used to fill in the gaps to create [...]
A Brief Guide To The Modern Orchestra History The orchestra as you see and hear it today has quite a history behind it; it has evolved, grown, and shrunk over time according to advancement in both technology and music. In the grand scheme of music and it’s history, the establishment of the western orchestral ensemble [...]
Approaches To Arranging: Developing Harmony – Part 1 The starting point of any adventure in producing an arrangement would be to have a good idea on what you wish to achieve. What is the purpose of your arrangement? The answer to this question alone will determine how you can go about arranging and it is [...]
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Introduction to Arranging The process of musical arrangement refers to the adaptation of a melody and/or its harmony for an instrument or suite of instruments. The earliest examples of arrangement can be found in classical music. A popular compositional technique was to arrange or incorporate traditional melodies, or folk tunes, into an original composition. For [...]
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