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I'm on a week away from my day gig, chipping away at some BIG arranging projects. The music on my desktop right now is about 700 measures...
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Michael Allen
Sep 23, 2018
Another possible approach
I might have tried to transcribe something as awesome as the first movement of Mahler's 5th Symphony decades ago - I might have even...
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Michael Allen
Jul 28, 2018
Get your head out of the score
Conductors who can't lift their head out of the score are a pet peeve. It usually means they don't trust their own understanding of the...
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Michael Allen
Nov 9, 2017
Bass Doubling
I wrote something yesterday that was confusing even to me when I read it again today. Mea culpa. The offending sentence was: Wright notes...
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Michael Allen
Aug 26, 2017
Willow, Willow
Many years ago, I was walking past Bill Stanley’s trombone studio at CU Boulder and heard a most remarkable thing. I stuck my head in the...
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Michael Allen
Aug 25, 2017
Huzzah! to the Queen's Chapel
Renaissance keyboard music is really fun to arrange. The simplicity of the music (well, at least some of it) lends itself to crafty...
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Michael Allen
Aug 16, 2017
Arranging with intent
Many years ago, my friend and colleague Bill Stanley (professor of trombone, University of Colorado at Boulder) pointed me towards an...
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Michael Allen
Aug 11, 2017
Writer's block
I wrote recently about starting with the bass line when beginning work on an arrangement. That is generally a true statement. However,...
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Michael Allen
Aug 8, 2017
Thorny textures
For those that aren't familiar, Grainger frequently reworked his own compositions for instrumentations other than the original. Handel in...
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