Hal Leonard Ted Pease & Ken Pullig - Modern Jazz Voicings
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Essential Information About This Method
Essential Information About This Method
- Objective: enrich your accompaniments and orchestrations with modern jazz voicings that are more colorful and sophisticated.
- Progressive Approach: from basics (fundamental voicings, chord scales) to advanced techniques (upper structure triads, quartal and secundal voicings).
- Designed for Writing: tools, methods, and arranging habits immediately applicable to your chord charts and scores.
- Orchestral Focus: an emphasis on multi-voice writing, with a dedicated chapter on writing for six parts.
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Summary of This Method
With Arranging Jazz: Modern Jazz Voicings, you explore the art of constructing contemporary voicings capable of adding harmonic depth, character, and a true sonic identity to your chords. The method emphasizes color and clarity: how to choose tensions, distribute notes, avoid unnecessary doublings, and make a chord sound more elegant, whether you are writing for a harmonic instrument or an ensemble.
The journey begins with basic voicings and relies on chord scales to connect harmony and modal vocabulary, a key point for understanding which extensions naturally work over a given chord. You will then find fundamental tools and techniques to organize your writing (placement of guide tones, tension management, internal voice movement) to achieve smooth and musical progressions, rather than a mere succession of "stacked" chords.
The method also covers highly sought-after concepts in modern jazz arranging: voicings with upper structure triads to instantly color a chord without overloading the writing, quartal voicings for a more open and contemporary aesthetic, as well as secundal voicings for controlled and expressive clusters. An Instrumental Information section provides practical insight into writing in instrumental contexts, and the book concludes with a chapter dedicated to writing for six parts, ideal for expanding your palette toward big band, brass sections, or denser vocal arrangements.
Technical specifications
| Theme | Theory - Harmony | ||
| Genre | Jazz arranging method | Language | English |
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Questions frequently asked
Is the method available in French?
The book is written in English and focuses on harmonic theory applied to jazz arrangement.
How are chord scales addressed in this method?
The approach starts with basic voicings and uses chord scales to connect chords to modal vocabulary. Extensions suitable for a given chord are thus put into context.
Does this method explain superstructures and quartal voicings?
The chapters cover upper structure triads, or triadic superstructures, to color chords. Quartal voicings are also discussed within an open aesthetic. Second-based voicings are used as well to study controlled clusters.
Can one learn writing for brass sections with this book?
An Instrumental Information section provides guidance for writing in instrumental contexts. The portion dedicated to writing for six parts applies to formations such as a brass section, a big band, or a dense vocal arrangement.
Does Hal Leonard Ted Pease & Ken Pullig - Modern Jazz Voicings address voice leading?
The method covers guide tone placement, tension management, and inner voice movement to build smooth chord transitions.
