{"id":35,"date":"2011-09-24T09:54:42","date_gmt":"2011-09-24T13:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.craigperler.com\/blog\/?p=35"},"modified":"2024-06-06T23:26:29","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T03:26:29","slug":"unpacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.craigperler.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/24\/unpacking\/","title":{"rendered":"Unpacking Aguilera"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I do a lot of random projects &#8211; starting a lot more than I finish. Might as well put some of them up here, eh? Let them live forever on the Interwebs!  So, the first of a bunch of stuff, though the only one dealing with Christina Aguilera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One might say I was a musical nerd in college. I not only played the piano for the school shows, but by Senior year I was organizing and producing the shows as well. So&#8230; I was friends with a lot of theater and a cappella folks in college.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a musician, I was interested in the arrangement process: do you tackle it thoughtfully end-to-end, or do it spontaneously, picking out parts by ear?  Either way, I wanted to try my hand at arranging something, and I thought Christina Aguilera&#8217;s &#8220;The Voice Within&#8221; would be a cool, elaborately large piece. It starts with a very simple melody (SSAATTBB + soloist), but expands to a huge choral overload (SSSAAATTTBBB + soloist) towards the end. I cannot post the arrangement I put together here due to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rbs2.com\/copyrm.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">copyright law<\/a>.  The arrangement counts as a derivative piece and thus falls under the &#8220;needs permission&#8221; legislature; however, here&#8217;s a MIDI of the composition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.craigperler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/thevoicewithin.mid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Voice Within<\/a><br>Words and Music by Christina Aguilera and Glen Ballard<br>Arranged for A Capella by Craig Perler<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.craigperler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/voice_within_pg1.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.craigperler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/voice_within_pg1.png?w=1160&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"voice_within_pg1\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do a lot of random projects &#8211; starting a lot more than I finish. Might as well put some of them up here, eh? Let them live forever on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"powerkit_post_featured":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-35","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-projects"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.craigperler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/pexels-photo-1389429.jpeg?fit=1880%2C1253&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1SwZ6-z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigperler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigperler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigperler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigperler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigperler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigperler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1595,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigperler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/1595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigperler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigperler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigperler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigperler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"powerkit_post_featured","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigperler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/powerkit_post_featured?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}