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Modern Jazz Voicings Arranging for Small and Medium Ensembles (Book/Online Audio) Paperback – April 1, 2001
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- Print length144 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherBerklee Press
- Publication dateApril 1, 2001
- Dimensions9 x 0.34 x 12 inches
- ISBN-100634014439
- ISBN-13978-0634014437
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"Ted is a legend at Berklee for his musicality, knowledge, and generosity in passing his wisdom on to students." -- Abraham Laboriel
"The long-famous 'Berklee voicings secrets' have finally been assembled into a beautifully-organized reference resource." -- Alf Clausen, Emmy and Annie winning composer, The Simpsons, Bette, Moonlighting, ALF
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Performers and Arrangers: Add color, character, and sophistication to your chord voicings. Learn to use fourths, clusters, upper-structure triads, and other advanced arranging and performing techniques for three to six parts.
This is the definitive text used for the time-honored Chord Scales course at Berklee College of Music.
Through a step-by-step process with exercises and recorded examples, the authors guide you through the intricacies of deriving "non-tertial" voicings from the right chord scales and applying them to various musical situations.
Become fluent in these techniques and use them effectively to express your own music:
- Select appropriate harmonic tensions and understand jazz harmony
- Avoid common mistakes and overcome harmonic ambiguity
- Experiment with unusual combinations and non-traditional alignments, mixing in other textures, including solo, linear, and contrapuntal passages
- Listen to arranging techniques performed on the CD and follow along with corresponding notated examples
- Apply new techniques using the Suggested Activities pages; great for assignments or home use
- Hear arrangers and players use these voicings to create their characteristic sounds with recommended recordings.
This book concentrates on scoring for every possible ensemble combination: winds, voices, strings, rhythm section, and more. Before long, you will be producing complete and effective arrangements for five or six horns and a rhythm section, arrangements with a mature, contemporary dimension, and a sophisticated sound.
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- Publisher : Berklee Press (April 1, 2001)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 144 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0634014439
- ISBN-13 : 978-0634014437
- Item Weight : 1 pounds
- Dimensions : 9 x 0.34 x 12 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #134,727 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #79 in Jazz Music (Books)
- #186 in Music Theory (Books)
- #822 in Music Instruction & Study (Books)
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Customers find the book a useful reference that answers questions and provides theory. They find the content concise, well-organized, and easy to understand with sufficient illustrations. The book is described as detailed and well-presented.
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Customers find the book a useful reference and teaching material. It covers theory topics in an interesting way. The content is comprehensive and clear, with helpful details. The concepts of basic, effective jazz arranging are laid out clearly.
"The content of this text is excellent. This is for musicians that already have a firm understanding of music theory (classical or jazz theory)...." Read more
"...You will need a clear understanding of music theory, but not necessarily of specific jazz, since vocabulary specific to jazz writing is defined and..." Read more
"Superb book. Unlike many of the Berkley Guide books, this is a wonderfully written text, with a lot of great examples and ideas...." Read more
"...Like I said, is a great book and I strongly recommend. Português: grande livro!..." Read more
Customers find the book concise and logically organized. They appreciate the illustrations that make things easy to understand. The text is well-written and provides helpful details.
"...It is amazingly simple and clear, with just enough illustrations to make things easily understood, and a great dose of exercises for practical..." Read more
"Superb book. Unlike many of the Berkley Guide books, this is a wonderfully written text, with a lot of great examples and ideas...." Read more
"...The concepts of basic, effective jazz arranging are clearly laid out even for someone with only a fair jazz background...." Read more
"Currently using this book for a jazz arranging class, it’s very detailed and gives you great tools to work on your voicings...." Read more
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- Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2021The content of this text is excellent. This is for musicians that already have a firm understanding of music theory (classical or jazz theory). I have some of the other Berklee books on Jazz, and I think this one is the most valuable, especially considering the cost. A few concepts require you to study the examples very carefully as the text doesn't always give precise explanations to those concepts. Once again, you need to already have theory in your background and you will be able to figure out the concept. Also, the online audio player is great! You can slow down examples and even change their pitch. Very useful.
- Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2008I picked up this book to help me with my Jazz Studies classes. It is amazingly simple and clear, with just enough illustrations to make things easily understood, and a great dose of exercises for practical application. I found it clearly laid out and logically arranged. It's easy to find topics that I'm looking for just from the index, and there aren't pages of unnecessary information to go through before finding the needed resources.
You will need a clear understanding of music theory, but not necessarily of specific jazz, since vocabulary specific to jazz writing is defined and clarified.
The information is laid out as a reference, with information on each instrument, scale, chord, etc., carefully presented for quick reference.
- Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2017Superb book. Unlike many of the Berkley Guide books, this is a wonderfully written text, with a lot of great examples and ideas. Highly recommended for music students who would like to improve their grasp of harmony, no matter whether you study jazz or not. The information here is NOT to be found in any other textbook that deals with the problem of harmony and chord voicings.
- Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2011In English and Portugese:
English: great book! However, because maybe I'm not so expert like the other reviewers, I need more and more basics exercises, mainly in the basics session. I feel a lack of support toward midi and electronic composer, in instance, using a midi keyboard and a sequencer; I feel, in this case, that is cumblersome (and "boring") to think the voicings "vertically". I think it could be more producent think melodically (using even the chord scales theory and avoid notes, and so on). But, even so, I learned a lot, and I'm using what I learned day after day in my works. Like I said, is a great book and I strongly recommend.
Português: grande livro! Talvez eu não seja tão bom teórico como os outros revisores, e por isso talvez eu necessite de mais exercícios básicos, principalmente na primeira parte do livro. Senti tb uma falta de suporte àqueles que trabalham com composição midi (que é o meu caso), usando um teclado e um sequenciador. Neste caso, acho muito desajeitado pensar no voicing "verticalmente". Seria mais produtivo pensar melodicamente, o trabalho seria mais rápido (usando a teoria das escalas cordais e "avoid notes", e por aí vai...). Ainda assim, aprendi muita coisa com este livro e o que aprendi uso diariamente. Recomendo, fortemente!
- Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2024Nicely packaged the item is as described by the seller in good condition.
- Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2012I've done a ton of arranging and composing for concert bands, percussion ensembles, and other small ensembles, but jazz is certainly a language very unique to itself unlike anything you likely were taught in college C.P.E. theory or arranging classes.
The concepts of basic, effective jazz arranging are clearly laid out even for someone with only a fair jazz background. Super-basic instrument ranges and transpositions are explained at the front, quickly moving to common harmonic structures, various Drop- voicings, and other concepts that make a jazz tune sound like jazz and not like Bach (hah!). The supplemental CD is a GREAT resource, as it gives you live recordings of real instruments (no MIDI or synth used) playing many of the examples so you can hear what a Drop-2 Double Lead 8vb sounds like in comparison to a Drop-2+4 Double Lead 8va.
I've already used the guidelines laid out in this book to arrange a few charts from my real book, and even the MIDI playback I have for now sounds awesome.
Fantastic resource especially for the price. I already know it will get quite a workout in the near future.
- Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2018Currently using this book for a jazz arranging class, it’s very detailed and gives you great tools to work on your voicings. Also, it makes you practice in the book so you get more used to thinking faster and making better decisions as into what voices you use.
- Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2016If you really wanna learn to compose and orchestrate proper Jazz music I recommend 6 books, and these 6 books only!
These titles will give you a comprehensive education of the subject.
1: MJV by Ken Pullig and Ted Pease
2: Jazz Composition; Theory and Practice by Ted Pease
3: Reharmonization Techniques by Randy Felts
4: Inside the Score by Rayburn Wright
5: Modal Jazz Composition and Harmony by Ron Miller
6: Instrumental Jazz Arranging; A Comprehensive and Practical Guide by Mike Tomaro and John Wilson.
If you are purchasing that 6th title (532 pages) for some ridiculous price of around $30 or less (like I did), consider donating a few bucks to a homeless person, except Ted Cruz, because the vast amount of information you get is so extensive; incl. 2 CDs packed with live performances of all examples; -it's almost theft.
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- RuiReviewed in Spain on November 20, 2024
5.0 out of 5 stars Excelente
Excelente
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AndresReviewed in Mexico on October 16, 2019
2.0 out of 5 stars Título confuso
El título es confuso. La información que contiene es avanzada
- Pavol KvassayReviewed in Germany on October 17, 2020
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book with little problems
The Book is great, like everything from Berklee, but I had a problem, because I dint't get the Audio CD with the Book.
I already complained about by Amazon. Amazon will send me my money back and I should keep the Book. That's fine, but I still would Like to have the CD instead of money back.
- Pen NameReviewed in the United Kingdom on July 13, 2018
5.0 out of 5 stars I have some limited experience in arranging - what sounds good to me is what you get
A very well thought out book. I have some limited experience in arranging - what sounds good to me is what you get. This book breaks down and explains the steps to achieving a more jazzy sound in about the right amount of detail at any one time. The music you see in the book is available on the Hal Leonard website (see inside cover of the book). I think you need a small degree of musical undestanding to get the best from this book - the basics are fairly quickly covered. If you are new to musical notation then maybe start with a simpler book. Everybody's requirements and experience are different but for most musicians who can read music and have an elementary understanding of chordal relationships I would think this is a very good book to have
- James JenningsReviewed in Canada on May 17, 2014
4.0 out of 5 stars Good insights to smaller ensemble arranging
I found the material useful and thought provoking
Examples were good but somewhat limited in scope.
Some concepts of how to deal with the more limited soundscape would have been helpful