Hi. Today we're going to look at a
couple of ways of connecting sections of your musical
arrangement. You can do it.
Through the use of transition elements from 1 section to the
other, and by means of reusing certain musical gestures or
motifs that appear throughout the arrangement.
This will. Help you to create unity in your
music piece by means of familiarity.
Let's hear some examples. Basically, I used a couple of
ideas throughout the music that show up in the very beginning in
order to achieve that sense of unity.
One was this. Part played by the celli in
pizzicato. I used it in the B section as
well, but I shifted it to the violas and changed the playing
style and also it provided the
rhythmic skeleton for the percussion parts in the bridge
section. The other element that I reused
was this rhythmic pattern made by the sticks, and sure enough,
it appears in the B section again, now being played in the
Toms. Incidentally, this rhythmic
pattern played on the sticks that originally appears in the A
section appears again right before the end of B, as if it
was foreshadowing the return of the A section.
As far as transitions go, the bridge section is prepared by
this scaled run from the violins in the upper register.
As a rule of thumb, as far as transitions go, you need to come
up with something that stands out from what is already
happening. In this case it was this high
pitched scale run, but you could do other melodic gestures in
different registers as well, or a general rhythmic accent, which
was what I ended up using at the end of the bridge as a
transition to the B section. The way I found to transition
from section B and back to A was to make it less busy in terms of
rhythmic movement while reintroducing that pattern in
the sticks that I showed you before.
Again, the foreshadowing with an element that existed in the
section I want to transition to helps.
And now let's hear the whole thing put together.
This piece of music consists of an A and AB section with a
little bridge in between them. And with no further ado, here is
the complete piece of music the.
Now you know how I kept a sense of unity and familiarity
throughout this piece of music. I did it by either carrying over
something from 1 section to the other, or by revisiting ideas
and adapting them to the new contexts present in the
different sections. And all while paying attention
and adjusting the transition materials that usually precede
the next section by one or two bars.
But this can vary, of course. As always, there are other ways
to connect sections, but give these ideas a go and try them
out in your music if you want to suggest other.
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