Basic Concepts
Of Arranging and Orchestrating Music
Basic Concepts
Of Arranging and Orchestrating Music
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Mel Bay proudly endorses Tom Bruner's beginning text on arranging and orchestrating music. This is a hands-on approach designed to impart essential information to the serious student!
Contents
- Part One - The Arranger/Orchestrator's use of the Piano
- Part Two - The Basics of Music Theory
- ÿ1. The Staff and Clefs
- ÿ2. Fundamental Principles of Notation
- ÿ3. Rest, Ties and Dotted Lines
- ÿ4. Intervals
- ÿ5. Scales
- ÿ6. Key Signatures
- ÿ7. Time Signatures
- ÿ8. Scale Degree Names
- ÿ9. Chords
- ÿ10. Voice Leading Principles
- ÿ11. The Inversion and Progression of Diatonic Triads
- ÿ12. The Cycle of Fifths
- ÿ13. Harmonic Extensions and Chord Spellings
- ÿ14. Altered Chords
- ÿ15. Minor Chords
- ÿ16. Augmented Chords
- ÿ17. Suspended Chords
- ÿ18. Symbols Used When Naming Chords
- Part Three - Principles of Transposition
- Part Four - The Range and Transposition of Instruments
- ÿ- The Woodwind Family
- ÿ- The Brass Instruments
- ÿ- The Strings
- ÿ- The Keyboard Instruments
- ÿ- Fretted Instrument Family
- ÿ- Percussion Instruments
- ÿ- The Harp
- ÿ- Organs
- ÿ- Harmonicas
- Part Five - Practical Exercises in Transposition
- Part Six - Instruments Potentials and Limitations
- Part Seven - Learning How to Think in Terms of Instrumental Colors
- Part Eight - Fundamental Harmonic Voice Leading
