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Arrangements...Producing Arrangements I am the arranger of music for the annual Leigh-on-Sea Folk Carol Service (see Books & CDs), and I arrange and adapt music for several local soloists and groups, mostly traditional and public domain material. The Folk Carol Service was broadcast on BBC Radio 2 on Christmas Eve 2009 as part of their Keeping Tradition Alive at Christmas series. Eight of my arrangements were used in the programme, including the one featured in the link ("Some of the 'patchwork quilt' of carols in Leigh on Sea"), which features the Honeygales singing the first two verses of my arrangement of the traditional Scots carol Ane sang of the birth of Christ (Balulalow). These two verses weren't used in the actual broadcast - they opted for the fourth verse instead. I can produce arrangements from cassette, CD, video or DVD and have even transcribed a song and produced a piano arrangement from hearing it hummed down the phone. If you want me to arrange material please check on the copyright first, as I cannot arrange music for which the copyright holder has not given permission - this is for you to sort out, not me! Transcription and Other Musical Services I produce printed musical scores or transpositions from handwritten material, using Sibelius. I can undertake musical research or provide you with answers to questions (but please, no homework - it's not fair on the teacher!) No fee if I can't provide a satisfactory solution, and I will tell you in advance if I'm not likely to be able to help you. If you require a simple order of service for weddings, funerals, etc., I can provide this for you, either copies printed on plain or coloured paper or light card, with your own design if required, or layout provided on Word or PDF files for you to arrange your own printer. I will check the wording, spelling and compatibility with whichever hymn book is being used: it is surprising how many "professional" orders of service get something wrong. (At one memorable funeral a few years ago I was assured that everyone would be using hymn books: during the first hymn I realised that orders of service, with hymn words and numbers of verses totally incompatible with the hymn book I had been given, had arrived with the funeral party and had been given to everyone except, of course, the organist. No amount of gesticulating could make an order appear on the organ before the end of the first hymn which, fortunately, had a definite and conclusive final verse.) All this can be done whether you want me as an organist or not, and - probably - at much less cost than if you were to get a company to do it for you. If you'd like anything else - just ask! Contact:
paul.mcdowell@sky.com or
telephone 07790 061381 or 01733 350088 |