[Smt-talk] Queen's Harmonic Technique

[MICHAEL ROGERS]

Also check out Glenn Miller's opening to "String of Pearls"

Mike Rogers
PhD Candidate, University of North Texas








On Apr 10, 2013, at 5:05 PM, Leslie Kinton wrote:

> For upper-voice pedal points, also Beethoven's 7th Symphony, 1st movement Coda.
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>> On Thu, 11 Apr 2013, Nick Braae <braae.nick at gmail.com> asks about upper-voice pedal tones in popular music:
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>>> I wonder whether anybody knows the stylistic origins of this particular voicing (i.e. pedal note as the top voice)?
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>> It's not an infrequent occurence in an older form of vocal music: opera. In "Marten aller Arten" from Mozart's "Entfuhrung aus dem Serail" there are several passages where the soprano holds a high note and the instruments have progressions below her.  Considering the nature of opera writing for sopranos, I assume there are earlier examples.  (If you want an instrumental one, there's the flute/oboe concerto, K. 314 - again, I assume there are earlier examples.)
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>> If you want to stay within pop music, there's the long held note in "I got rhythm" from Gershwin's "Girl Crazy" (1930).  More briefly (but earlier) there's the "Italian Street Song" from "Naughty Marietta (1910) by Herbert.
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