A great book for band and choral conductors, keyboard players, guitarists, students and anyone interested in arranging music! Step-by-step lessons on all the ways you can put together top-notch arrangements. Creative Arranging is an in-depth look at the active elements of the arranger's craft: harmonic and rhythmic expansions of the basic chords and melody of a lead sheet, intros and cadences, motion, surprise, colour and texture. The book includes dozens and dozens of great, easy to understand musical examples by the author, Bill Holcombe. Creative Arranging is a thorough and fascinating book to understanding and using the fundamentals of the arrangers art. CD available separated.