Harmony; vocal arrangement

Group task for harmony

Following the session on harmony. We split off into small groups to begin our task. Our task was to create a vocal accapella harmony arrangement of any songs of our choice. Me and two others created a mash up of singing in the rain and umbrella, we used the idea from Glee's performance of the two songs and combined then in a different arrangement to theirs to suit each individuals vocals. We felt it was important to take our abilities into consideration in order to achieve a good sound.

The most difficult part of this task was managing to fit the different together to create the piece as the songs had different tempos meaning that the way the rhythms were formed were different and collided with each other. This was a mini battle between ourselves as we struggled to find a way to combine and bring together the rhythms in a clever way that will be pleasant for the listener.

When we performed this piece, we felt that we did a good harmony mash up as the harmonies were tight and sounded accurate and suited the key and tone of the piece and they showed off both melody lines in an effective way for each vocalist. We also managed to showcase ourselves in the performance which meant we could put across our strengths to the audience in a pleasing manner. In the end the combined rhythms of both melody a from both songs complimented each other well as they didn't over power one another and create a main focus on just one melody line, they blended well. The finished arrangement can be found on the link below on the blog.

http://cmu105musicianship201516.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/summer-erin-and-yahya-vocal-arrangement.html?m=1