Swing and Big Band
- Created by: Ellie Warlow
- Created on: 13-06-18 14:37
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- Swing and Big Band
- Melody/ Techniques
- Written arrangements
- Only lead soloist improvises
- More technically difficult melodies
- Harmony/ Tonality
- Walking double bass line
- More varied modulations
- Classical techniques e.g. circle of 5ths
- More chromatic harmonies
- Extended chords e.g. 7th/ 9th/ 11th/ diminished/ augmented
- Timbres
- Much larger ensembles than anything from before
- Saxophones as leading soloist
- Accompaniment instruments: double bass, piano, drumkit, guitar
- Melodies played by trumpets, saxophones, trombones
- Jungle-style drums
- Sound effects
- Wah-wah mute
- Plunger mute
- Growling
- Horsewhinny
- Textures
- No more polyphonic improvisation
- Melody dominated homophony
- Antiphony
- Example - Sing Sing Sing Benny Goodman 1937
- Starts with drum solo
- Ends with short drum coda
- Off-beat accents
- Repetitive main motif
- 32 bar song form (AABA)
- Based on solos
- Includes clarinet (Goodman) as main soloist
- Heavy syncopation
- A minor
- Ensemble/ chordal unison
- Imitative texture 4'10"
- 9 choruses
- Starts with drum solo
- Structure
- 32 bar ballad form
- Head and chorus arrangement
- Rhythm
- Emphasis on off-beats
- SWING!!!
- Hi-hat emphasises swing rhythm
- Syncopation
- Melody/ Techniques
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