tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post241127303828537916..comments2024-03-29T07:38:17.008-05:00Comments on The Music Salon: Arrangement and TranscriptionBryan Townsendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-56369976008762018152020-12-06T20:47:34.760-06:002020-12-06T20:47:34.760-06:00Thanks for sharing such an informative post.Thanks for sharing such an informative post.Languages Unlimitedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14836967445608566655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-43194973890873172602018-09-18T09:18:35.509-05:002018-09-18T09:18:35.509-05:00Sorry to take so long allowing your comment throug...Sorry to take so long allowing your comment through. Yes, I agree with "unknown."Bryan Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-14003887958632904932018-09-12T12:47:16.245-05:002018-09-12T12:47:16.245-05:00@Simon- That sounds like a very strictly interpret...@Simon- That sounds like a very strictly interpreted definition. A transcription,(I've also heard this referred to as a "drop") is as close to a one to one notated copy of some audibly sourced musical work. An arrangement can differ significantly not only in instrumentation, but also in harmonic, melodic and rhythmic content, both subtle and gross. While retaining most components of the source works melody, the arranger can augment and modify to add expression the original composer went without. Does it make the arranger a hack? It depends on your ears.<br /> ;) Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11533620222764397493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-71284009137125422532017-02-10T08:52:17.777-06:002017-02-10T08:52:17.777-06:00That is certainly one use of the word "transc...That is certainly one use of the word "transcription".Bryan Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-84453916794168663392017-02-09T14:29:46.714-06:002017-02-09T14:29:46.714-06:00This is incorrect.
Arranging refers to 'the p...This is incorrect. <br />Arranging refers to 'the practice of taking music written for one instrument or group of instruments and adapting it for a different instrument or group of instruments'.<br /><br />Transcribing refers to writing music down by listening to it, just as it does with speech.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18153805672221820925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-44043451702491731972016-03-19T12:32:32.162-05:002016-03-19T12:32:32.162-05:00Until you have proper arrangement you can't ma...Until you have proper arrangement you can't manage the transcription and other musical notes that you have. It really harder for me to arrange when i am playing my music instrument.Eric E Wadehttp://soldierstudio.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-62853245465482422492012-09-05T11:39:56.096-05:002012-09-05T11:39:56.096-05:00Representational identity requires consent. Muslim...Representational identity requires consent. Muslims refuse to admit ANYthing to be (a translation of) the Quran.RGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17404263429983838122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-72837230051164533982012-09-05T10:22:40.284-05:002012-09-05T10:22:40.284-05:00I thought that might be the case. Yes, the transla...I thought that might be the case. Yes, the translation analogy occurred to me as well. Now, could you say that a performance is a 'translation' of the musical score from graphics into sound?<br /><br />The notion that some arrangements are easily recognizable, while others are not was a point I was trying to make with my three "Summertime" examples. If I hadn't said anything, it would be only some way into each piece that a listener would recognize the song. And I believe that would be solely on the basis of the melody. What if an arrangement varies so far from the original that it is not, to an ordinary listener, recognizable? Is THAT still the song?Bryan Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-17989394856553447572012-09-05T09:36:49.619-05:002012-09-05T09:36:49.619-05:00Bryan,
Thank you for answering so extensively (wit...Bryan,<br />Thank you for answering so extensively (with YouTube etc.) and comprehensively, packaging other queries and answers. You give me insight into my own thoughts and puzzlements which I see now are related to the problems I worried through Master's (pictorial representation) and PhD (language translation) researches. I see the relationship between original and arrangement now as closely similar to that between an original and its translation. A translation of the Iliad is still the Iliad, but it's not the original ΙΛΙΑΣ. There is nothing really mysterious about such normal things as pointing to a picture and saying "That's my wife." RGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17404263429983838122noreply@blogger.com