What this track is for
You are here because you arrange and orchestrate AChA repertoire. The aim is simple: performance-ready arrangements that serve our ensembles and our ethos to a consistent standard. Everything in this course points back to two questions, does it serve the music, and does it serve the people who will play and hear it?
Our mission runs underneath all of it: reclaiming the arts for Christ. That is not a style you bolt on; it is a care you bring, writing music of genuine excellence that lifts a worship setting and a concert hall alike.
The course, in parts
- The AChA Sound, our house style and the music we are after.
- Writing for Our Forces, the orchestra, the choir and our youth ensembles.
- The Arranging Craft, voicing, idiom and playable writing.
- From Score to Stand, notation standards, parts and delivery.
- Working Together, conductors, section leaders and revisions.
- Rights and Sources, what we may arrange, and crediting it well.
Questions as you go are welcome. Reach the music team at info@australianchristianarts.com, and always check specifics of forces and deadlines with the music director for the project in hand.