Pretty much what the title says. I direct a high school advanced vocal jazz ensemble and I’m looking for SSAATB pieces for our winter concert as we’re very treble heavy this coming school year (8 sops, 8 altos, two tenors, two basses) It’s a performing arts school so the kids are very talented and can handle hard stuff. Let me know if you have any suggestions!
We're struggling with a money issue (cannot afford original arrangements) but also no creativty. can i buy scores?
I'm trying to do acapella arrangement. Please ignore the garbage engraving and how some of the parts are not easily singable, I'm still working on it need to collect and workshop with the group, and I keep everything broken into eighth notes so I can go back and keep working on it later (bc I suck at Musescore). It's also incomplete so just ignore the last few pages.
My main issue right now is with creativity. I feel like I'm not being creative enough, and I'm just transcribing from the original instead of really adding a lot of my own flourishes to it. I'm stuck in this rut and I'm trying to get inspired from things on YouTube but this just feels like very generic, basic music. I'm not a composer whatsoever, I'm just taking the role on because we don't have an arranger. I'm in high school with 0 formal music training, though I've been trying to teach myself. I do choir and that's my wheelhouse, singing the arrangements, not making them lol. please help...
here's the score I'm working on. any critique or specific feedback on my work is appreciated.