Duke Ellington - Black and Tan Fantasy
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- Created on: 06-06-16 11:35
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- Black and Tan Fantasy
- Contextual
- First recorded in 1927
- Jungle style jazz
- Harmony
- The bass part outlines the 5th and the root of each chord in steady crotchets
- Use of substitution chord where he used a Gb7 chord instead of a F7 in bars 13-14
- More substitution chords Cm7 chord instead of chrod V in bars 37 and 40
- Rapid cycle of falling 5th in bars 19-20
- The head is diatonic apart from a D natural passing note
- Added 7th chords bar 33
- Secondary dominant chords in bars 54-55 lead to Eb in bar 56 forming a short circle of 5ths
- More secondary dominant chords load to a return of Bb minor and a quotation of chopins funeral march in the last 4 bars.
- Use of diminished 7th chord in bar 58
- Longer circle of fifths bar 59-63
- Last 3 bars there's a massive rallentado over repeated plagal cadences
- Structure
- Chorus 1 (Bb minor) bars 1-12
- Tutti
- Contrasting 16 bar section in Bb major bars 13-28
- Sax
- Chorus 2/3 in Bb major bars 29-52
- Double chorus on trumpet
- Chorus 4 in Bb major bars 53-64
- Piano
- Chorus 5 in Bb major bars 65-75
- Trombone
- Chorus 6 in Bb major bars 76-86
- In the trumpet and interrupted after 7 bars
- Coda bars 87-90
- Tutti
- Chorus 1 (Bb minor) bars 1-12
- Melody
- Opening 12 bars are an adaption of the chorus of 'the holy city'
- The first 4 bars of 'the holy city' melody is expanded to 8 bars to make the melody into 12 bar blues
- Fall from tonic to dominant in bar 65
- Wide leaps and rapic decoration in bar 61
- bars 21-28 are varied repeat of the first 8 bars of this section
- frequent blue notes and slides, with wide vibrato and constant use of portamenti is characteristic of the melody line
- Improvised solos and composed head
- Horse whinny in bars 72-73
- Rythm
- Syncopation
- Cross phrasing in bars 17-18
- The rhythm section provides four accented beats a bar sometimes infilled by the piano
- The firmly accented pulse negates the legato style of the ballad
- Contextual
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