Elements and Performance Criteria
- Set professional development goals
- Listen to and critique recordings of own arrangements with appropriate people
- Evaluate and discuss factors that contribute to excellence in music arranging
- Listen to and evaluate the work of master composers and arrangers, and identify techniques that could be applied to own practice
- Develop networking strategies to cultivate relationships that will enhance own professional practice
- Document professional development goals, and establish criteria for monitoring and evaluating own skill development
- Practice to refine techniques
- Devise a practice plan that incorporates goals for refining arranging techniques
- Seek feedback from others and critically review own arrangements
- Experiment with ways of improving own arrangements
- Discuss revised arrangements with peers and/or mentors, and use their feedback to inform continuous improvement strategies
- Arrange music
- Seek music arranging work that extends own creative practice
- Generate a range of musical ideas or starting points in response to briefs
- Experiment with options for realising musical ideas and refine in discussion with appropriate people
- Apply a wide range of arranging techniques to organise musical elements into working versions of musical pieces
- Obtain copyright clearances and address intellectual property rights as required
- Listen to and evaluate work in progress with appropriate people, and seek creative and technical feedback
- Incorporate ideas and suggestions into final arrangements
- Attend rehearsals or performance workshops where arrangements are being played, and make adjustments to arrangements as required
- Present all arrangements in required format by agreed deadline
- Review own skill development
- Compare work against previous arrangements to assess development of techniques and ideas
- Evaluate level of improvement in own arranging techniques against agreed criteria
- Seek feedback on arrangements from appropriate personnel, and incorporate their suggestions and ideas into own future professional development strategies