Arranging for the Concert Band Review

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(More customer reviews)Frank Erickson has a rich history of writing music for concert band at all ability levels. Any one in the music education field knows of the wonderful pieces he composed. The book uses ilistrations of his own work to explainbasic scoring concepts. The book is well arranged and easy to understand.If you combine this book with the CD of his music from Walking FrogRecords, you have a good combination of resources for arranging for band.

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Arranging for the Concert Band and the accompanyingworkbook are intended to introduce students to basic techniques ofarranging for the concert band. Arranging can be divided into twoseperate processes.The first deals with scoring andtranscribing. Scoring is concerned with such things as voicing,doubling, balance and color. The term scoring also means the actualwriting of notes on the score paper. Transcribing is scoring musicwritten for one kind of musical instrument or group - say a piano ororchestra - for a different kind of group. This text deals with thosematters. The second part of arranging is the more creative process ofwriting introductions, modulations, endings, background figures and soon.

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