Ch 13 Flashcards
Composition
A composition is a musical work that may be played by any number of musicians and bands while remaining basically unchanged.
Composers….
During the 1950s, many composers started to explore the jazz past for compositional material.
Thelonious Monk compositions based on..
worked with blues and standard AABA song forms
Charles Mingues compositions based on
turned to blues, AABA
forms, boogie woogie, and classical
music for inspiration.
Gil Evans compositions based on…
rearrangments
George Russel compositions are based on…
introduced “modalism”
Thelonious Monk
Monk was key to the development of bebop because he was the house pianist at Minton’s Playhouse
Monk’s output
composed 71 compositions but is the second most played (“Round Midnight”)
Monk compositional technique…
used dissonances, like minor seconds
“Thelonious”
Form is typical AABA but the bridge is ten bars long and the final A is ten bars long
A 8
A 8
B 10
A 10
Head is based off a one note riff accompanied by descending chromatic chords
Monk solos chorus’ 2-4 (emphasized 3-4)
“Rhythm-a-ning”
based a riff from Mary
Lou Williams’ “Walkin’ and Swingin’”
Rhythm-a-ning is an AABA 32 bar
popular song.
Chorus 2-4 Charlie Rouse**
Chorus 5-6 Monk
Charles Mingus
virtuoso bassist and composer
He also wrote compositions that linked jazz and the civil rights movement.
“Fables of Faubus”
Mingus composed it in response to the
Arkansas governor (Orville Faubus) who
refused to integrate Little Rock Central High
School.
“Boogie Stop Shuffle”
As the title suggests, it is based on
Boogie-woogie blues.
The first five choruses are Mingus’s
composition.
The remaining thirteen choruses are
improvised.
12-bar blues
Gil Evans
was primarily an innovative arranger who lifted the art of arranging to the level of composition.
