Hi all. I tried finding a quartet arrangement of Into the West (song at the end of Lord of the Rings - Return of the King) but couldn't find one.
I just finished taking a stab at arranging it. I love the song, but I'm not sure that reducing it to a sax quartet really worked.. plus I'm no arranger really.
The tough part was the fact that a very predominate part of the song is a guitar part that basically plays arpeggios throughout the song (and some chords).
Well, since I play guitar too, I went ahead and wrote out a guitar part (it's not exact, but gets the idea across). This way I can play the guitar part and we still have the solo and the two (very very boring) background parts (sorry bari and tenor!
). I wrote the guitar part for Soprano as well so see how that sounds. I haven't played this with our quartet yet so I don't know how it'll sound, but I did upload an audio file of Finale playing the arrangement using those Garrison Personal orchestra thingies. (I don't have the sax ones, so I just used strings and a harp for the guitar part).
The link to the Finale audio is at http://www.scotthedrick.org/esax.htm. (click on Into the West to hear it)
If any real arranger type out there likes it and cares to improve it/etc, I'd LOVE to see it!
I just finished taking a stab at arranging it. I love the song, but I'm not sure that reducing it to a sax quartet really worked.. plus I'm no arranger really.
The tough part was the fact that a very predominate part of the song is a guitar part that basically plays arpeggios throughout the song (and some chords).
Well, since I play guitar too, I went ahead and wrote out a guitar part (it's not exact, but gets the idea across). This way I can play the guitar part and we still have the solo and the two (very very boring) background parts (sorry bari and tenor!
The link to the Finale audio is at http://www.scotthedrick.org/esax.htm. (click on Into the West to hear it)
If any real arranger type out there likes it and cares to improve it/etc, I'd LOVE to see it!