Week 3

Arranging for strings (Case Studies)

During this week, we went through songs with string quartets and we analysed them as a class. We discussed what techniques they used. This was information we went through last week as Jesse taught us all information to do with this.  

Jesse through songs that were the original then the string quartet arrangement and talk to us of how they might have done this and what they did to this some songs that he went through were Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face”1 . This arrangement was really cool as they used the string quartets for this song and sounded really cool I liked both of the songs they were very cool. We went through a couple more songs. This was an interesting class as it talked about all the instruments and showed us how we could use them the piece we are doing. That concluded the lesson.

Reference List

1 Gaga, L., 2008. Poker Face. [Sound Recording] (Streamline KonLive Cherry tree Interscope).