Join MAGA Inc.
The Guild invites full membership from people engaged (wholly or
casually) in any facet of the music arranging, orchestrating and
copying professions. Certificate
of Merit membership is an additional category specifically designed
for student members.
Alternatively, membership as a Friend of MAGA Inc. is open to any
individual
or organisation
seeking closer contact with the Guild's goals, present and future
agenda and activities.
Applications for full membership require the successful completion
of a competence test in at least one of the Guild's categories:
(1) Arranger, (2) Copyist,
(3) Electronic arranger. All tests are
assessed by the Guild's National Executive.
Further information on the different membership categories and
tests is detailed below, while application packs can be downloaded
using the links on the left. Existing members can also renew
their membership online.
Arranging Category
An Arranger is one who creatively adapts the composer’s
ideas for performance, by instruments and/or voices. Arranging is
the art the art of preparing, adapting, paraphrasing, developing,
altering or adding to, the structure of a musical composition.
Entry Requirements
This test requires the applicant to select a melody and arrange
a minimum of eight bars for five frontline and four rhythm instruments,
or for an orchestra comprising nine instruments. A transposed score
shall be prepared with instrumental parts denoted in their respective
keys, to show that the applicant is familiar with the particular
instrument keys and safe working range of the instruments and transposition.
Copying Category
A copyist is one who transcribes the individual instrumental and/or
vocal parts from a musical score. Copying is the art of extracting
the various parts from a musical score and transcribing them into
a legible, correct and understandable form for the instrumentalist
and/or vocalist.
Entry Requirements
The test includes categories for rock/jazz/pop copying and orchestral
copying (either by hand or computer typesetting). The necessary
test scores are included in the Membership Application Packet.
Electronic Arranging
Test
An Electronic Arranger is one who creatively adapts the composer’s
ideas solely by electronic means. Electronic Arranging is the art
of preparing, adapting, paraphrasing, developing, altering or adding
to, the structure of a composition by graphic means with audio being
the sole component. This category is specifically designed for the
non-reader/writer of music.
Entry Requirements
The test consists of a minimum of 60 seconds of finished musical
work presented solely in audio format (cassette or CD). No written
or computer-generated score need accompany this application
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