Jazz Mindmap
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- Created on: 21-09-16 10:27
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- Jazz
- Ragtime ~ Scott Joplin 1895
- MELODY
- Usually the compositions had 16-Bar phrases divided into 4 equal parts
- Melody line features arpeggios
- Blues notes (altered scale degrees)
- Chromatic shifts
- HARMONY
- Strong sense of harmony, conventional
- Strong tonic and dominant relationship, predominants and chromatic shifts
- Modulations to explore relationships between keys
- Left hand is supportive and never syncopated
- Harmonic Movement - I to V
- STRUCTURE
- Multi-theme music, four themes grouped ABACD/ABCD
- Recapitulation - returning to the original theme and key
- RHYTHM
- Simple syncopation
- Rarely rhythmically complex
- Repetition of rhythms, mechanical nature
- Stride In the left hand
- Running Quavers
- MELODY
- Sidewalk Blues ~ Jelly Roll Morton 1926
- INSTRUMENTATION
- Trombone - frontline instrument, provides different sounding melodies with wawa.
- Clarinet - frontline instrument, accompanies melody
- Trumpet - lead instrument, many solo melodies and improvisation
- Drum Kit - provide a pulse and appears for transitions and start of sections
- Piano - Provides a quiet, background melody, syncopated rhythms
- RHYTHM
- Syncopation
- Staccato chords, punchy, 2nd and 4th beats
- Rhythms in swing/shuffle style
- 4/4 time signature
- STRUCTURE
- Opening 2-Bar phrase is repeated, with an altered final note
- 8 bar intro, with introductions of each frontline instrument
- Leads into section A
- HARMONY
- Standard 12 bar blues progression
- To chord II (F Minor) at start of final phrase
- INSTRUMENTATION
- Ragtime ~ Scott Joplin 1895
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