A2 Glenn Miller
- Created by: Penny Martin
- Created on: 08-06-15 15:21
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- Glenn Miller
- About
- Studied composition and music theory
- Trombonist
- 1939 - 42 his orchestra enjoyed popularity and commercial success - recorded 17 top 10 hits in 1939, 31 in 1940, and 11 each in 41 and 42
- combines sounds of sax and clarinet for a disctinctive resonance
- clarinet and tenor sax contribute to melody while saxes play complementary harmonic line
- In The Mood
- Line up
- Front line - 4 saxes, 4 trumpets, 4 trombones (muted)
- Drums, acoustic bass, piano and banjo comping
- Structure - Intro, head (AABB), Series of solos - tenor sax, the trumpet, return to head, coda triumphently climbs , simple sustained unison tonic pitch with rim shot
- Millers trademark - dying away ending with suspense - us of dynamics and rising sequence with high pitch ending
- 12 bar blues in G, close harmony, use of blues scale in solo's tenor fight between instruments
- Riff based material, use of broken chords and arpeggios on clarinet lead and uni saxes with trumpet and trombones adding accented riffs
- base on an old jazz riff that was passed around, most notable form - Fletcher Henderson - Hot and anxious
- Line up
- Untitled
- American Patrol
- Scored For
- 5 Saxes
- 4 Trumpets
- 4 Trombones
- Guitar, Piano, bass and drums
- Clear symmetrical sections, largely defined by orchestration
- first section is for saxes and subsequent section is for brass with sax interjections.
- big sections are broken up with solo or duo passages as well as trademark dynamic contrasts towards end (like in the mood)
- Military style drum roll introduction
- A - saxes, with rhythm and brass accents
- A is repeated with anacrusis and different concluding phrase
- B - Cup mute brass with sax accents, then saxes
- C- saxes with brass response (call and response, back to B section, then C with chromatic tutti in brass
- Bridge - drum solo into Section E - quotes Columbia in the Gem with tutti sections and piano fills
- F - borrowed melody on sax with key change fom F to Bb, A3 - main two themes varied with solo trumpet
- Coda -fragment of theme shown, dynamics fade to ppp then big ff tutti
- F - borrowed melody on sax with key change fom F to Bb, A3 - main two themes varied with solo trumpet
- Bridge - drum solo into Section E - quotes Columbia in the Gem with tutti sections and piano fills
- C- saxes with brass response (call and response, back to B section, then C with chromatic tutti in brass
- B - Cup mute brass with sax accents, then saxes
- A is repeated with anacrusis and different concluding phrase
- A - saxes, with rhythm and brass accents
- Scored For
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