West End Blues Part 1
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- Created on: 21-01-18 13:34
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- West End Blues
- Melody
- Strain 1
- Trumpet melody
- Arpeggiated ending
- Clarinet in harmony with tune
- Trombone has sustained notes
- Trumpet melody
- Introduction
- Trumpet solo at beginning
- Cadenza
- Improvised and decorated
- Virtuosic
- Wide range (Over 2 octaves)
- Trumpet solo at beginning
- Strain 2
- Trombone melody
- High range
- Plunger mute
- Glissanods
- Vibrato
- Trombone melody
- Strain 3
- Clarinet and **** singing
- Low clarinet range - opposite of dixieland
- Voice mimicking clarinet sound
- Clarinet and **** singing
- Strain 4
- Piano solo
- Virtuosic and free
- Improvised
- Scalic runs
- Wide range
- 3 chromatic crotchets at end
- Piano solo
- Strain 5
- Trumpet melody again
- Higher octave
- Further away from main tune
- More improvisation
- Starts with a high, held dominant pedal
- Further away from main tune
- Higher octave
- Trumpet melody again
- Coda
- Short piano solo
- Finishes with trumpet tune
- Whole band finish on last chord together but come in gradually from where the trumpet starts the tune
- Strain 1
- Harmony
- Sustained accompaniments on solos
- Trombone and clarinet
- Comping piano chords
- Repeated chords in rhythm section
- I, I, I, I, IV, IV, I, I, V, V, I, IV
- 12 bar blues
- I, I, I, I, IV, IV, I, I, V, V, I, IV
- Pause near beging
- Tutti = dominant triad with augmented 5th
- Bar 54 (End of piano solo)
- Consecutive chromatic crotchets
- Cm, B, Bb
- Consecutive chromatic crotchets
- Sustained accompaniments on solos
- Tonality
- Eb major throughout
- Structure
- Contrasting strains
- Trumpet + Piano
- Introduction (Bars 1-6.3)
- Trumpet cadenza (Unusual start in jazz)
- Strain 1 (Bars 6.4-18)
- Trumpet melody
- Strain 2 (Bars 17.4-30)
- Trombone melody
- Strain 3 (Bars 30.4-42)
- Clarinet + **** singing
- Strain 4 (Bars 43-54)
- Piano solo
- Strain 5 (Bars 54.4 - 62)
- Trumpet melody
- Coda
- Piano solo then trumpet
- Coda is an extension of the 12 bar blues
- Contrasting strains
- Melody
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