Inner state of mind Flashcards
Courtney pine
What is the style of the drums
Jazz and Hip hop fusion
What key is the piece
C Dorian mode (flattened 3rd and 5th)
What does DJ Pogo do in terms of effects
Turn table effects
Rappers names
Black Twang and McMello
The rappers are made of…
Samples
Texture
Homophonic
The saxophone part is…
Improvised
The song is based on
Summertime and So What
First bar (harmony)
No chord
Octave: medical
Min 3rd: baroque and classical
4th: quartal harmony relating to the 21st century
Chords in the first bar then…(effect used)
Fade out
The singer is…and she is…(studio technique)
Esta Mtungwezi
Multitracked
The electric piano has setting of
An organ
Guitar plays
Distortion to sound like a vinyl -> OLD TO NEW
One guitar contrasts the other because
It is syncopated
Hook of the song
Inner state of mind
The test creates a
Chaotic and frantic feel
An influence from miles Davis’s So What is…
Parallel motion - playing the root in the left hand
Melody in saxophone is ornamented with
Acciaccatura
Scoops / pitch bends
What effect is used in the saxophone part
Turn table
Samples of the word
“Mind” appear regularly with EQ effect
In bar 4, the parallel motion is
Displaced so the start of the bar is unclear
HYPE FEEL
Drum’s high hat accentuates
Beat 2 and 4 causing syncopated feel (Jazz)
When “inner state of mind” is heard in the vocal section it starts on…
G to link with “summertime” and to be similar to the improvisation at the beginning of the piece (same outline but more decorated)
In the vocal section (texture)
2 part
But also melody dominated homophony
Performance techniques horn section plays in the vocal section
Accents and staccato
Between the horn section and vocals…
Call and response feel
The baseline in the vocal section is
Chromatic
LH of piano plays a
2 bar riff
Vocals feel…
Syncopated
Trombone plays a
Slide of a minor 2nd which touches upon the Phrygian mode - sounds lost
“Knowledge is power” (harmony)
New blues idea - more chances to improvise
“Knowledge is power” (bass riff)
Stops to accentuate the change in harmony and the trombone
Rap section is about
Finding power and solace in knowing who you are and finding yourself
In rap section the…is heard again similar to the beginning
Distortion
Rap section (trombone)
Interjection of slides
Differences found between vocal section 2 and 1
Perfect 4ths in 2
Range extended in 2
Perfect 5ths in 2
More melisma tic in 2
Switches between registers in 2
Monophonic bar in2
Before scatt section in vocal part you can hear
Blues notes
MOST IMPORTANT BIT (harmony)
TRITONE SUBSTITUTION
Esos sings …as an Ella Fitzgerald influence
Scatt
Turn around section chords
C7#9
Eb9
Fm/D
Db7
Keyboard plays…during the scatt section
Little fills
Who does the rap first and second?
1st - Black Twang
2nd - McMello
In the second rap section you can hear another instrument. What is it and what is it doing?
Flute improvisation
At the end of the 2nd rap section (before the final vocal section), something occurs in the texture, harmony and scale. What is happening
All the parts play a hexatonic scale, (meaning that no A is being played)
Quartal harmony is produced creating dissonance and harmonic interest
In the final vocal section, when the dynamics go to mp, what happens to the melody
It develops because more syncopation?
In the final section where there is mp marking, what happens to the bass
It changes and is now off beat - similar to b.17
Towards the end of final vocal section (close to the start of the instrumental section) what does the saxophone do
It virtuosically plays a pitch bend. Similar to “Rhapsody in Blue”
The instrumental section is…
Improvised - reminiscent to Miles’ style
What rhythms are heard in the instrumental section
Quintuplets
Sextuplets
Scotch snaps
In terms of melody, what happens in the instrumental section
Highly conjunct and Scalic
How does the piece end
With an inverted pedal note on the 2nd causing discomfort as we do not think that the piece has ended.
