133727
Description
Mind Map by Alec Hewstone, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Alec Hewstone
over 11 years ago
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Miles Davis Quintet -
Four (Opening)
- Structure
- An opening 'Head' followed
by several improvised choruses
- The same chord structure - changes - are used through the whole piece
- An opening 'Head' followed
by several improvised choruses
- Rhythm and Meter
- Fast continuous crotchet walking bass
- Triplets appear occasionally
- The head is
very syncopated
- Fast continuous crotchet walking bass
- Melody
- Fragmented with quaver rests
- Played mainly conjunct
- Lots of short repeated scalic phrases
- Notes played are not functional with
harmony - Davis plays 'off the chord'
- Lots of chromaticism
- Fragmented with quaver rests
- Instrumentation
- Piano, bass, drums, trumped
and tenor saxophone
- Walking bass
- Piano comping
- Virtuosic trumpet playing
- 'Fall offs' - a kind of glissando
- Ghost notes -
very quiet notes
- Pitch bends
- Half valving
- 'Fall offs' - a kind of glissando
- Piano, bass, drums, trumped
and tenor saxophone
- Texture
- The head is melody
dominated homophony
- The break before 1.1 is
monophonic solo for trumpet
- Walking bass line provides a
base for the whole piece
- The head is melody
dominated homophony
- Tonality
- The whole piece is in Eb major
- The style is so chromatic in the choruses
that tonality is not always evident
- The whole piece is in Eb major
- Harmony
- The underlying chord progression
is relatively simple
- A circle of 5ths in bars 1.26-1.29
- Almost every chord is an
extended chord - 9ths and 7ths
- The underlying chord progression
is relatively simple
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