This lecture and supporting classroom resources provide an excellent guide to different arranging techniques used by different professional artists. The PowerPoint presentation and PDF versions of the lesson links with a classroom listening task and homework project for students to complete.

In this package:

• Lecture (PowerPoint and PDF versions)
• WORKSHEET - Classroom task with listening exercise.
• ANSWERS – classroom task answers.
• HOMEWORK – Development task linked to lesson, used for homework or assignment
• PRACTICAL TASK - musical classroom task linked to presentation/lesson.
• REVISION – ‘Elements of Music’ sheet
• Video (presentation in video form, used for student revision)

** Arranging Music **

• What is Arranging?
• The role of a Musical Arranger
• Elements of Music:
  • Pitch
  • Rhythm
  • Tempo
  • Contour (how the melody moves and changes)
  • Timbre
  • Dynamics
  • Meter
  • Key
  • Melody
  • Harmony