Comments on: Confession

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 00:54:48 +0000

Ravel was all up on the dick of this chord. Listen to Daphnis & Chloe

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 18:36:53 +0000

Leonard Bernstein once claimed not to be able to read a few notes an eager sous-chef de patisserie had scrawled in chocolate sauce on a dessert plate at a fancy party for the great man. He [LB] said it was because the notes had no key signature. Being analaphabète as to musical notation, i immediately recognized them and said “It’s Maria, also it’s at the begining of the Nile Scene.” [The notes also had no assigned tempo or value or whatever the word is.] Like Aaron Copland, LB knew to steal from a good source.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 19:31:41 +0000

It’s the opening of Tristan!

By: R J Keefe

R J Keefe — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 05:05:49 +0000

Congratulations upon being fingered by Alex Ross as the culprit!

Of course you’ll have some splaining to do on Saturday night, bringing Classical back to life.

By: dja

dja — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 19:14:36 +0000

Man, if there ain't no bass player, and that piano chord is the first and only thing you hear, ain't no one gonna hear that as anything but an F minor seven flat five. This "multivalent whatever," that's just jive.

Obviously, the same voicing works over all kinds of different bass notes, but that ain't exactly news, either.

Listen, I had a theory teacher in freshman year show me an octatonic scale like he thought it would be some kind of revelation. "If you want to be really 'hip', throw that into your 'improv.'" I was like, man, ain't you never heard Dizzy Gillespie?

By: dja

dja — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 19:04:04 +0000

Could be Db9. Or G7altered. Or Abm6. Or Bb7(sus4b9). Fm7(b5) is only one possibility. Just let it go where it wants to go, baby, is just what I said the first time, and it still holds. Darcy, I’m surprised at you!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:13:06 +0000

It’s where it goes that tells us what is it is, that and where it’s come from.

Dig those crazy cadences,

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:54:48 +0000

Quote starts (sorry I don’t know html) Jazz chuckled. “Call it what you want, man. That’s some multivalent whatever. Just let it go where it wants to go, baby.”

You’d clearly had too much bourbon if that’s what you heard, man. I distinctly said “That’s F minor seven flat five. And it usually goes to B-flat seven altered. You heard that progression a million times.” Quote ends.

By: bernard

bernard — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 04:36:52 +0000

Like a cat classical music has more than one life. Milton Babbit , no doubt inadvertently, almost did it in by making it a branch of higher mathematics, but classical music once more escaped.

By: dja

dja — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 02:18:07 +0000

Jazz chuckled. "Call it what you want, man. That's some multivalent whatever. Just let it go where it wants to go, baby."

You'd clearly had too much bourbon if that's what you heard, man. I distinctly said "That's F minor seven flat five. And it usually goes to B-flat seven altered. You heard that progression a million times."

Then you started muttering something under your breath about "enharmonics" and I just walked away. The piano don't know no damn difference anyhow.