{"id":63,"date":"2022-06-17T13:03:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T13:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/immoschroder.com\/?page_id=63"},"modified":"2025-08-13T08:35:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T08:35:36","slug":"a-cappella-arrangements","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/immoschroder.com\/index.php\/a-cappella-arrangements\/","title":{"rendered":"choir arrangements"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/immoschroder.com\/index.php\/mixed-choir\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mixed choir<\/a><\/strong> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/immoschroder.com\/index.php\/female-choir\/\"><strong>SSAA choir<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What it&#8217;s all about:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since the age of 16, while singing in my first<em> a-cappella<\/em> quintet, I have been continuously making vocal arrangements for different groups. Working as a professional singer in classical ensembles improved my intuition for vocal writing, challenging myself to come up with<strong><em> interesting and melodic parts for every<\/em><\/strong> <em><strong>voice <\/strong><\/em>&#8211; even for altos and basses! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Normally, my arrangements are <em><strong>medium difficult<\/strong><\/em>, though it&#8217;s mostly possible to make them easier on occasion. They are always <strong><em>unaccompanied<\/em><\/strong>, which I find more developing for the choir in the long run, plus that there seems to be a certain shortage of pure <em>a-cappella <\/em>arrangements. Lacking the piano accompaniment, you might want to use some kind of <em><strong>percussion instrument<\/strong><\/em> in the beginning              (maybe a tambourine or a shaker) in order to get the choir into a collective grove. After a while, according to my experience, you don&#8217;t need it anymore. Generally, all my arrangements are <em><strong>constantly being tested<\/strong><\/em> by my choirs. Which allows me to make changes on the way in case things didn&#8217;t work out how I&#8217;ve hoped they would.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A lot of my arrangements have<em><strong> divided sopranos<\/strong><\/em>. That&#8217;s because most choirs have a lot of sopranos that are able to reach an <em>e5<\/em>, but not as many who can comfortably go to <em>g5<\/em> or higher. That&#8217;s why the highest soprano notes are never the most important ones, but just the <em>icing on the cake<\/em> in case you have the suitable singers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I always try to notate the <em><strong>original melody<\/strong><\/em> of a song exactly the way it actually goes (i.e. in the style of the music or how the composers sang it themselves). Even if that means that it&#8217;s a bit more complicated to notate and read. But since my arrangements always go together with mp3 files you&#8217;ll hear the correct version there. Clearly, you have to compromise at times, but I think that too much rhythmic or melodic simplification just doesn&#8217;t do justice to the music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Generally, I avoid <strong><em>repetition signs<\/em><\/strong> in order to enable a fluent reading. Since I found, that even in professional ensembles the jumping around in the score often creates unnecessary confusion. So why not just print out more pages instead?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Otherwise I guess, my <strong><em>choice of songs<\/em><\/strong> is rather individual. I just have to love the song. So, I often end up with pieces that haven&#8217;t been arranged that often yet. According to the motto: <em><strong>You can turn every good piece of music into an even better a-cappella arrangement. \ud83d\ude42<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What it&#8217;s all about: Since the age of 16, while singing in my first a-cappella quintet, I have been continuously making vocal arrangements for different groups. 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