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All Blues – Miles Davis: GCSE Music analysis
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- 1All Blues -Moby Davis 1959 JazzFeatures of Jazz Music:
- 2MelodyMain melody introduced in Bar 9
Davis plays the head first
Based on a very simple motif - a leap of a major sixth with long high note being slightly ornamented though conjunct
Riff between links
Adderly - chromatic notes - improvised melodies, free, virtuosic, modal scales used - 3Dynamics and ArticulationLong high note in main melody slightly ornamented
Trills played by piano in intro(in 3rds) some dissonance
Adderly uses vibrato
Some slurs, staccato notes
Instruments quieten when improvisation - 4TextureDifferent textures - Melody with accompaniment but mainly homophonic
Piano is main comping with left hand and filling gaps
Starts thin with brushes - saxes play riff in 3rds creates interesting texture
Intro and Outro thick textures
All solo sections the same rhythm+improv - 5TonalityG Major
Use of mixolydian mode to improvise - 6HarmonyMixolydian
Piano provides chordal comping
Head uses 12 bar sequence
Extended chords used
Substitute chords 7sharp9
Bar 5: Alto+tenor harmonise with riff
Chromaticism in melody line which creates dissonance - 7Structure 12 bar blues Intro -Head - Link (4 bars) - Davis/Trumpet -Link - Adderly/Alto - Link - Coltrane/Tenor - Link - Evans/Piano - Head - OutroLink is the same as intro
When musicians improv the other instruments drop out and quieten
12 bar blues/chorus is repeated 19 times
All solos apart from piano do 4 choruses -piano only 2. - 8Tempo, Rhythm & Metre6/4 with a tempo of 156 beat per minute
Swing rhythm used
Syncopation
Polyrhythms - 912 BAR BLUES Also called a chorusG7 -- G7 -- G7 -- G7
C7 -- C7 -- G7 -- G7
D7*9 -- (Eb7*9 D7*9) G7 -- G7
REPEATED 19 TIMES - 10Instrumentation -- The Line UpFront line: Trumpet, alto sax, tenor sax, piano -- tenor is lower and more mellow than alto
Rhythm Section: Base line is played pizzicato throughout
Drummer uses brushes and drum kit
Trumpet uses mute in piece and removes for solo -tremolo/trill by piano
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