Workshop Description:

Using a a few familiar tunes, Alyssa Reit will cover arranging principles and techniques, including:

—finding harmonic “pillars,” creative use of substitutions

—melodic development-a few simple tools

—rhythmic variation, accompaniment styles

—form and arc, expansion and contraction

This is a hands-on workshop!

For those who pre-register, materials will be sent out in advance.

More preparation= more benefit!

About Alyssa Reit:

Alyssa Reit is an independent composer, arranger, performer, teacher, and storyteller.

As a harpist, she has performed with institutions ranging from the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the Pittsburgh Symphony, and the Metropolitan Opera, to contemporary music groups and Irish bands. She has given concerts with John Cage, toured Europe with the legendary Martha Clarke, and traveled the U.S. playing with the world famous vocal group, Anonymous 4.

Her compositions and arrangements are performed internationally, and range from solos for diverse instruments, brass quintets, mixed chamber music, and choral pieces, to music for orchestra. Her main body of work has been creating theatrical-musical settings of myths, classic stories, and fairy tales. Recent projects include a setting of the original story of Pinocchio as Broadway-style musical, and a ballet based on H.C. Andersen’s “The Snow Queen.”

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