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- Preliminary Quartet Thoughts by Helping You Harmonise on Nov 21, 2009
3/4 of Monkey Magic with a bag of trophiesLast Sunday saw a marathon BABS quartet prelims come to my erstwhile place of work, with 43 quartets competing in the national, senior and youth quartet contests. The biggest outcome of the day (though not th...
- Managing Expectations in Vocal Arrangements by Helping You Harmonise on Nov 9, 2009
Regular readers will have noticed that I like to draw on the ideas of Leonard B. Meyer when I think about music. I was first introduced to his work in my first year at university, and it had quite a big impact on me, as it was my first real encounter...
- LABBS at Cheltenham by Helping You Harmonise on Nov 7, 2009
LABBS Quartet champions, FinesseThe Ladies Association of British Barbershop Singers had their annual convention last weekend at Cheltenham Race Course, and the association looks like it’s in good health. The White Rosettes consolidated the new lev...
- Soapbox: The SAI Show Package Final by Helping You Harmonise on Oct 29, 2009
I spent some of last weekend watching and listening the webcasts from the Sweet Adelines Convention in Nashville, and the ‘show package’ finals had me thinking again about the nature of entertainment and its relationship with competition. I’ve...
- Ladysmith Black Mambazo at Symphony Hall by Helping You Harmonise on Oct 22, 2009
Last Friday, I went with my friends from Magenta to see Ladysmith Black Mambazo at Birmingham’s Symphony Hall. Having heard their sound, both from their own albums and from their collaborations with Paul Simon, I found it something of a revelation...
- Arranging for choral or one-a-part groups by Helping You Harmonise on Oct 15, 2009
I mentioned in my post a few months ago on arranging for 8 parts that I’d need to come back to the question of what makes an arrangement suitable for a choral ensemble versus a quartet/octet – and indeed, what makes an arrangement suitable for ei...
- Arranging to Commissions vs Arranging for the ‘Mass Market’ by Helping You Harmonise on Oct 1, 2009
In a comment on my post last week about getting known* as an arranger, Mark queried why I seemed more interested in arranging for commissions rather than for ‘the mass market’. I made a brief reply there, but his question stayed with me, and made...
