Also Called. Related to. Careers in Live Music. Careers in Orchestra, Chorus, and Band. Careers in Theater. Careers in Composition. In This Section. At a Glance Career Path. Finding Work. I imagine Clint Eastwood was plucking a guitar and came up with the simple melody, and then Lennie Niehaus arranged composed? With someone who is very good at writing basic melodies writing the melody, and a professional musician usually with a degree in music composition I assume composing the piece for a full orchestra?
If yes to the last question, can one be considered a great musician if he or she simply writes the melody and has other more learned musicians "fine tune" and orchestrate the piece? For example in regards to number three , Franz Liszt was an incredible virtuoso pianist and could arrange pieces brilliantly, but as for his completely original compositions, I do not know of any being considered that "great" The Hungarian Rhapsodies were almost entirely based off gypsy folk tunes.
He just re arranged the original melody. This is not always separable. As an extreme case, take "The Musical Offering" by Bach. Nobody would claim that Frederick the Great was the composer and Bach the arranger, even though the former pitched the theme pervading all of the composition.
It is also used for the usually more constrained task of converting a figured bass harmonic description into a full version, something that was expected to be done on the fly from contemporary Baroque musicians in their own time, just like one expects Jazz musicians to get along with a lead sheet in our times. The mark of a "mere" arrangement tends to be that it does not add significant musical material.
Something like Ravel's Bolero or Mussorgski's Pictures at an Exhibition started out as piano pieces but were later arranged for orchestra. Of course, the original did not have a percussion group even though the piano is an instrument with percussive attack, so usually there are good pointers. And the variation in loudness and timbre and the ability to sustain long notes and consequently the potential for slow speed is so much greater that there are a lot of subtleties to explore and make sensible use of that just aren't there in the original.
An arrangement may add "filler" voices that don't contain harmonical information of its own "orchestration" would not do that. And may add repetitions and stuff. Jazz "arrangements" may add bridges, other phrasing, other harmonies, particularly other bass lines: that again goes more in the direction of "version" than "arrangement".
The arranger takes it from there and may feel he deserves more recognition than just 'arranger'. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. Share Tweet Share. Submit a Comment Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. These are concepts that are used to describe a certain part of the creative process, and many of these skills are used by one person.
Essentially, arrangers are people who are exceptionally good at reconceptualizing a pre-existing piece of music, whereas a music producer is an umbrella term for someone who is in a creative leadership role over a project.
Like what was said above, arrangers are not always separate people from the music producer or the songwriters. And if you think about it, it makes more sense for it to be this way. If you had to hire a different person to do every little thing, it would be a mess. With that said, there are people who do specialize in musical arrangement, like Simon Hale, for instance, or Nick Ingman, Booker T.
Jones, and Richard Niles. Check out this Wikipedia page for a more complete list. Arrangers and producers are different when it comes to the big picture, but the producer, for example, by far, will wear more hats than the arranger. A producer will have the final say for the arrangement of the tune and, in the grand scheme of things, will have the last word on everything.
They hire anyone that needs to be hired for a project, so of course, this means arrangers, writers, musicians, etc. If you are a producer or writer and do not know how to write an arrangement for a string quartet or a brass section, you will hire an arranger or an orchestrater. This person will likely be a musician that knows a lot about producing, playing, and performing. Their job as an arranger, though, will only be for the re-conceptualization of the music.
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