News - RJE Productions Releases First Volume Of Theatre Organ Arrangement Book

March 6, 2009

RJE Productions Releases New Theatre Organ Arrangement Book
The Art Of Theatre Organ Arranging (Volume One)

RACINE, WISCONSIN. RJE Productions is pleased to announce the release today of the first in a series of books containing fully written-out theatre organ arrangements by Jelani Eddington.

The Art Of Theatre Organ Arranging (Volume One) contains 130 pages of arrangements and instructional materials. The arrangements in the book are:

Give My Regards To Broadway
Indian Summer
Play A Simple Melody
A Kiss In The Dark
When The Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves For Alabam'

Each arrangement introduces new concepts (such as counter melodies, playing techniques, key changes and modulations, chromatic runs, etc.) and provides a full and complete discussion, analysis, and review of each element. The website TheatreOrganArrangements.com will contain free downloadable MP3 files of each arrangement for reference. The arrangements are designed to provide interesting and musically satisfying playing material to organists of all skill levels.

In addition to the arrangements, this first book provides extensive in-depth and easy-to-understand information about a wide array of subjects, including:

An Overview Of Registration
An Overview Of Phrasing
An Overview Of Harmony
An Overview Of Putting It All Together

The book also contains an extensive appendix containing the following items:

Catalog Of Essential Theatre Organ Registrations
Chart Of Scales, Chords, and Harmonizations
Glossary

Additional releases are expected within the coming months.

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