Jazz Arranging and Performance Practice: A Guide for Small Ensembles

Paul E. Rinzler

doi:10.5771/9781461659990

Summary

Unlike most jazz arranging books, which focus on the rudiments of arranging (transposition, ranges, notation, and so forth), this book deals with the real substance of arranging for small jazz ensembles, in addition to the rudiments. Rinzler devotes a chapter to each of the following arranging elements: intros, endings, accents/breaks/dynamics, time and tempo changes, style changes, form, rhythm section procedure, harmony and orchestration. Over a hundred musical examples demonstrate arranging techniques that apply to 147 jazz standards and modern compositions.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/1999
Copyright Year: 1999
ISBN-Print: 978-0-8108-2257-3
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4616-5999-0
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 171
Product Type: Monograph

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Preface No access
1. Turnarounds No access
2. Material from the Head No access
3. New Material No access
4. Pick-up Notes No access
5. Free Time No access
6. Vamps No access
7. Pyramids No access
8. No Intro No access
1. Tags No access
2. Similar Endings and Intros No access
3. Linking Several Endings No access
4. Cliché Endings No access
5. Fermatas No access
6. Staccato No access
7. Vamps No access
8. New Material No access
9. Ritard No access
1. Accents No access
2. Breaks No access
3. Dynamics No access
1. Style Changes within a Chorus No access
2. Style Changes between Choruses No access
3. Style Changes for an Entire Tune No access
4. Free Jazz No access
1. Definitions No access
2. Tempo Changes No access
3. Time/Feel Changes No access
4. Meter Changes No access
5. Playing Behind and Ahead of the Beat No access
1. Standard Forms No access
2. Standard Jazz Arrangement No access
3. Changing the Chorus Structure No access
4. Number of Heads No access
5. Solos No access
6. Changing the Melody No access
7. Fours No access
1. Different Procedure in Head No access
2. Dropping Instruments Out No access
3. Deviations from Standard Patterns No access
1. Chord Symbols No access
2. Relationship between Chords and Scales No access
3. Notating Extensions and Alterations No access
4. Chord Progressions and Substitute Chords No access
5. Common Turnarounds No access
6. Reharmonizing the Given Chord Progression No access
1. One-part Writing No access
2. Two-part Writing, Note-to-Note No access
3. Three-part Writing, Note-to-Note No access
4. Spacings and Inversions No access
5. Combinations of Instruments No access
6. Limited Harmonization No access
7. Counterpoint and Backgrounds No access
8. New Melodies No access
Appendix A. Notation No access Pages 118 - 121
Appendix B. Instrumentation No access Pages 122 - 125
Appendix C. The Rhythm Section No access Pages 126 - 131
Appendix D. Annotated Arrangement No access Pages 132 - 140
Glossary No access Pages 141 - 146
Bibliography No access Pages 147 - 149
Discography No access Pages 150 - 157
Index of Tunes No access Pages 158 - 168
General Index No access Pages 169 - 171