Music, Science, Statistics
Don’t miss Phoenix — and get their album, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix. Those French know what’s up! Here’s a mashup: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtRQsCgYmtc[/youtube] Update: It’s offline—another case of major industries sniping down creative remix projects with legal nastygrams. But that’s another story entirely.
Yuri Broze is a music guru and sciencehead currently pursuing a PhD in Music Theory and an MS in Statistics at Ohio State University. His current academic haunt is the Cognitive and Systematic Musicology Laboratory, spearheaded by David Huron. Yuri is an award-winning choral arranger, has written on a cappella arranging, teaches piano lessons, tinkers with websites, and smells hardbound books.
First-Time Arranging Advice
A reader wrote in requesting some pointers on arranging for his high school a cappella group, and I thought I’d post a few here: advice for writing your FIRST arrangement. These tips do not necessarily apply to ALL arrangements and are not general rules, but are good ways to make sure nothing goes too haywire [...]