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Twin Sons from Different Mothers: Harmonic Convergence in Jazz and Classical Music, Part 3: "Augmented 6th Chords in Classical And Jazz"
by Kurt Ellenberger
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 III. Augmented 6th Chords in Classical Music and Jazz Classical music has its own version of the tritone sub, which, of course, predated the jazz version. It results from the outer voices (usually soprano and bass) moving in contrary motion into ...
Jazz Fest Deemed A Success (Three Years In A Row): A Look Back At The Virginia Beach Jazz Festival 1959-1961
by Troy Hoffman
They say that music is the “great communicator," and if so then jazz is the most fluent. Just a few miles away from the famous jazz club, The Jolly Roger, in Virginia Beach, the Robert E. Lee Amphitheater was newly built to seat 2,000 and was the location of the area's first Virginia Beach Jazz Festival ...
Twin Sons from Different Mothers?: Harmonic Convergence in Jazz and Classical Music, Part 2: "Tritone Substitutions"
by Kurt Ellenberger
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 II. Twin Sons from Different Mothers: Tritone Substitutions There are two types of chords that feature dominant 7th sonorities--in jazz, they are called “tritone substitutions," and in classical, they are called “augmented 6th chords." We don't know ...
Twin Sons from Different Mothers?: Harmonic Convergence in Jazz and Classical Music, Part 1: "The Blues"
by Kurt Ellenberger
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 Introduction In my article about Harmony and the Harmonic Series, I suggest that the relationship and tension between the dominant and the tonic is the engine of all harmonic activity in tonal music. In that article, to keep it as clear ...
From Showboat-to-Samba: Transculturation of Brazilian Music in America
by Troy Hoffman
By 1957, jazz music was fully stretching out and the bossa nova movement was one of the many impacts. American artists of all types had been expanding their knowledge of international cultures for quite some time, specifically Latin countries and the musical rhythms driving them--one of the earliest being Cuban culture, which began popularizing in the ...
Second Line For The Second Time: The Curious Tale Of A Rhythm Reborn
by Kurt Ellenberger
In New Orleans in the late 1800s, the precursors to jazz were forming in the brass bands that performed on the streets for parades, funerals, and other events. These groups featured brass and percussion and were followed by crowds who marched behind them in the parades and processions. The rhythms played by the percussion were a ...
The Lyrics They Are 'A Changing: Lyrical Liberties In "Lover, Come Back To Me" And "Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise"
by Alex Segal
Frank Sinatra's greatness is evident in his making the songs he sang his own. And his doing this is connected to his, on occasion, changing the lyric of a song--even a very good lyric. But according to good anecdotal evidence, Cole Porter and Ira Gershwin--suppliers of some of the best lyrics Sinatra sang--did not take kindly ...
Harmony and the Harmonic Series: I-V to Rule Them All
by Kurt Ellenberger
Preamble Since writing my article on Music and Evolution, I have received many emails asking the same question: “How does harmony and the movement of chords function in conjunction with the harmonic series and our ability to predictively 'hear' simple resolutions to complex wave relationships?" This article will try to answer that question by delving into ...
Strange Bedfellows: Jazz and Pop and Heinrich Schenker?
by Kurt Ellenberger
I. A Brief Introduction to Schenkerian Analysis Heinrich Schenker (1868-1935) was an Austrian musician, composer, and most notably, music theorist whose ideas about analyzing and explaining music were groundbreaking and successful. Along with other mathematically oriented theories, like Allen Forte's “Set Theory" and Arnold Schoenberg's “Serialism," Schenker's theories were very popular in academia. These theories were ...
A Sonic Compass: A Journey Through Prince's N·E·W·S
by Giulia Bianchi
It is indisputable that musician, composer, singer, actor, and producer Prince Rogers Nelson has been one of the most prolific and committed musical artists of all time. With an enduring career spanning over five decades, the virtuoso mastered a plethora of instruments, perpetually exploring and trailblazing new creative horizons. His music is steeped in a timeless ...
