Black and Tan Fantasy

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Composer?	Duke Ellington an American Composer.
When was it written?	1929
Genre?	Jazz/swing
Instrumentation?	Drum kit, double bass guitar, Alto Saxophone, Trombone, Trumpet, Piano
What is the Structure of the piece?	12 bar blues. This means the A section is 12 bars long the B section is 8 bars long.
What is the well known hymn tune played in the outro of the piece?	Funeral March.
What are mutes and what instruments use them?	Mutes are things you put inside a brass instrument to make them sound different. Mutes vary in size which also varies their sound. In this piece the Trumpet uses mutes. The Trombone uses a plunger mute in bar 73.
What is the key?	B flat minor.
This piece is regarded as 'swing' why is this?	Swing means a small group. Also the quavers swing.
Rhythm is?	Syncopated and dotted.
Funeral march at the end of the melody, what is the key? texture? compositional device?	B flat minor, homophonic, ostinato (repeated theme)
Triplets are used in what instrument and where?	Alto Saxophone bar 13.
What does the term 'Glissndo' mean?	It means slide.
When is the crossover between the trumpet and piano solo? and what is its technical term?	bar 52. The technical term for a crossover is dove tailing.
When does the left hand piano use slides?	bar 55. (Jazzstyle- ragtime)
What other compositional device is used in bar 55 by the left hand piano?	Chromatics.
what dos the term 'loco' mean?	moving.

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