Black and Tan Fantasy 1927 by Duke Ellington
- Created by: Olivia Grace Matthews
- Created on: 30-04-15 20:08
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- Black and Tan Fantasy 1927 - Duke Ellington
- Background
- Mother and Father = Pianists
- Played ragtime professionally by 17
- Handpicked his players and wrote individually for them
- New York. The Cotton Club - Jungle sounds
- Bigger ensembles
- Harmony
- Based around 12 bar blues
- Includes 7th chords, 2ndary dom. and sub. chords
- More advanced classical progs. = cycle of 5ths (b19-20) Bb-Gb
- Sub. chords replace harmonies in 12 b sequence b37 + 49
- Piano solo=wider range of harmonies. Dim. 7th chords b58+63
- Coda = plagal cadences in Bb Minor (unusual)
- Melody
- Based on chorus - 'The Holy City' - rhythm aug. tonality now minor not major.
- Sax interlude - begins passage based around whole-tone scale. Some chromaticism bar 25-16
- Ellington's solo-mostly diatonic. some chromatic passing notes mimic effect of blues notes
- Miley's trumpet solo-'blue' minor 3rds and 7ths. More diss. clashes. 2 octaves range
- Structure
- Bars 1-2=Chorus 1 (intro)
- Bars 13-28=interlude
- Bars 29-52=Chorus 2+3
- Bars 53-64=Chorus 4
- Bars 65-76=Chorus 5
- Bars 77-86=Chorus 6
- Bars 65-76=Chorus 5
- Bars 87-90=Coda
- Head=12 bar blues x6 in total
- 1st + 2nd separated by 16 bar section
- Concludes with Coda
- 1st + 2nd separated by 16 bar section
- Head=12 bar blues x6 in total
- Texture
- Sustained chordal accomp. Low in register
- Chrouses 1,2,5+6= simple melody homophonic texture
- Piano texture (chorus 4) 'stride' accomp.
- Rhythm and Metre
- Seriousness of the opening= constant crotchets
- Enlived sax. triplets + swung quavers
- 2nd trumpet solo=some repeated rhythmic ideas based on triplet crotchets
- Swung rhythm abandoned for sombre mood of coda
- Background
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