Elements and Performance Criteria
- Develop an understanding of music arrangement
- Generate ideas for musical arrangements
- Clarify scope of music arrangement brief with appropriate personnel
- Prepare a plan for completing work in line with the requirements of the brief and negotiate a contract as required
- Brief other people involved in the music arrangement project as required
- Research arranging conventions of musical style as required
- Generate a range of musical ideas or starting points and experiment with options for realising them
- Discuss options with appropriate personnel and refine ideas as required
- Arrange music
- Develop and apply a range of techniques to adapt and organise musical elements into working versions of arrangements
- Obtain copyright clearances and address issues regarding intellectual property rights as required
- Listen to work in progress with appropriate personnel and seek feedback on how well arrangements meet creative and technical requirements
- Incorporate ideas and suggestions into final arrangements
- As required, attend rehearsals or performance workshops where arrangements are being played and make any necessary adjustments
- Present all arrangements in required format by agreed deadline
- Evaluate own music arrangements
- Identify criteria to provide an effective measure of the success of own arrangements
- Compare work against previous arrangements to assess development of techniques and ideas
- Discuss strengths and weaknesses of arrangements with appropriate personnel and identify strategies for improving own arranging techniques