UNAS 1106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Meade Lux Lewis, Duke Ellington, Soprano Saxophone
1 Mar 2017
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Lecture 18: way in which the left hand strides octaves. Melodic figure repeated through all or part of a piece. Meade lux lewis: honkey tonk train blues. Fletcher henderson and his orchestra: the stampede 1926. Henderson taught an orchestra how to swing. Riff melodic figure played by sections of a big band to accompany a soloist. Tuba and banjo are important parts of the rhythm section. Last 20 sections is a recapitulation of everything that has happened before. Rex stuart is on the trumpet now. Sidney bashay: clarinet player and soprano sax. Most important kinds of voices in clarinet: blue horizon 1944. Use of vibrato is a very important technique. Vamp until he knows where he wants to go. Entire piece built up to the ending. Lecture 18: developed because the war had taken a lot of the good musicians away, big band playing changed, shift to modernism in jazz.
