Arranging for the Concert Band

Arranging for the Concert Band
Author: Frank Erickson
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Total Pages: 124
Release: 1985-03
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780910957069

Arranging for the Concert Band and the accompanying workbook are intended to introduce students to basic techniques of arranging for the concert band. Arranging can be divided into two separate processes. The first deals with scoring and transcribing. Scoring is concerned with such things as voicing, doubling, balance and color. The term scoring also means the actual writing of notes on the score paper. Transcribing is scoring music written for one kind of musical instrument or group -- say a piano or orchestra -- for a different kind of group. This text deals with those matters. The second part of arranging is the more creative process of writing introductions, modulations, endings, background figures and so on.

Prokofiev

Prokofiev
Author: David Nice
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780300099140

"The book follows Prokofiev's personal and musical journey from his childhood on a Ukrainian country estate to the years he spent travelling in America and Europe as an acclaimed interpreter of his own works. Nice sheds new light on the striking compositions of Prokofiev's early years, his training at the St. Petersburg Conservatory and the circumstances of his departure from Russia in 1918 for what the composer thought would be a short tour of America.