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The Shell and More
When it comes to extended harmonies, the most important tones are the third, seventh and ninth. So, in the key of C (major, dominant and minor), these are: Of course, this doesn’t make much sense in the ear until the … Continue reading
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Tagged augmented chords, changes, chord extensions, chord progressions, color tones, functional harmony, guide tone lines, guidetone lines blog, harmonic shell, jazz theory, jazz theory guide tone lines, lydian mode, music, music theory, music theory guide tone lines, truncated chords, truncated chords for guitar players, whole-tone harmonies
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Part 3: Not Not-Quite-As-Amazing (But Still Useful) Augmented Chord
When we arrive at the “B” section of All The Things You Are, the piece returns to the key of G major, where it started in the verse. Harmonically, this part of the piece consists of nothing more than a … Continue reading
Posted in cadence, changes, changing keys, chord progression, common tone diminished, common tones, diminished chords, Great American Songbook, harmonic structures, Improvisation, key change, modulation, music theory, Orchestration
Tagged big band orchestration, chord extensions, chord progressions, functional harmony, jazz theory guide tone lines, Jerome Kern, modulation, music, music theory, music theory guide tone lines
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They Do – Except When They Don’t
“The verse was nothing – but the Chorus was Art – And its Music was enough to tear you apart…” – Joseph Moncure March, The Wild Party (1926) In my very first post to this blog, I said “…the harmonic … Continue reading
Posted in changes, chord progression, european pop songs, Great American Songbook, guide tone lines, harmonic structures, Hollywood Scores, Latin Music, laws of physics, music theory, physics
Tagged changes, chord progressions, English, French, functional harmony, German, Greek, guide tone lines, Hispanic, Italian, jazz theory guide tone lines, Jerome Kern, joseph moncure march, Latino music, laws of physics, music, music theory, music theory guide tone lines, musica cubana, natural law, Russian, shenkerian analysis, standards, the wild party
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A Tale of Two Ditties
Actually, it’s two versions of the same ditty – in this case, the Harry Warren example we’ve been working with so far. You’ll remember the first version in which we simply used the guide tone lines. Here’s what it looks … Continue reading
Posted in chord progression, common tones, contrary motion, counterpoint, Great American Songbook, guide tone lines, harmonic structures, neighbor tones, Orchestration
Tagged big band orchestration, big band writing, changes, Charles Dickens, chord extensions, chord progressions, counterpoint, functional harmony, guide tone lines, guidetone lines blog, harry warren, jazz theory, jazz theory guide tone lines, music theory guide tone lines, section writing
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Guide Tone Lines In Action, Part 3 – Colors of the Winds
So – what’s wrong with the guide tone line in the second ending in terms of orchestration? Nothing, provided we drop the line an octave. In simplest terms, the second ending of the “A” section in the current example (Harry … Continue reading
Posted in Big Bands, cadence, changes, chord progression, common tones, counterpoint, Great American Songbook, guide tone lines, harmonic structures, Hollywood Scores, Improvisation, Orchestration
Tagged big band orchestration, big band writing, changes, chord extensions, chord progressions, color tones, colors of the winds, counterpoint, functional harmony, guide tone lines, guidetone lines blog, harry warren, jazz theory, jazz theory guide tone lines, reed section, section writing
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Common Tones
Finding a set of guide tone lines for a specific set of changes (chord progression) is not the exact science we music theory geeks would like it to be. It is possible – even probable – for one to discover … Continue reading
IDIC
Fans of Star Trek will recognize that acronym as “Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combination” – the heart of Vulcan philosophy. It is in fact at the heart of our music here on Terra Firma as well. It is often said that … Continue reading
