<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Michael,<div>many thanks, this is a plausible explanation. I somewhat suspect that there might be some extra clue to the special status of this piece in Garner's repertoire. It is a homage to old-fashioned Harlem stride piano (based on a simple repeating i #viĝ V/V V "turn around" in minor). But perhaps I'm misinterpreting the presence of the suffix "tonality" here.</div><div>best wishes</div><div>Thomas <div><br><div><div>Am 03.10.2009 um 00:46 schrieb MICHAEL MORSE:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">Dear Thomas,<br><br> Sounds like the very common jazz world custom of weaving someone's name into a noun to make a title. Betcha bre'r Garner had a friend named 'Fran,' is what..<br><br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Michael Morse<br>Pbgh ON<br>Trent University<br><br><hr id="stopSpelling">From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:noll@cs.tu-berlin.de">noll@cs.tu-berlin.de</a><br>To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:smt-talk@societymusictheory.org">smt-talk@societymusictheory.org</a><br>Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 22:30:50 +0200<br>Subject: [Smt-talk] Frantonality<br><br>Dear Colleagues,<div>Errol Garner wrote and played a tune called "Frantonality". Does anybody know or guess the motivation for this title?</div><div>Sincerely,</div><div>Thomas Noll </div><div><br></div><div><div><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; "><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; "><div><div><br><div><div>*********************************************************</div><div>Thomas Noll</div><div><a href="http://flp.cs.tu-berlin.de/%7Enoll">http://flp.cs.tu-berlin.de/~noll</a></div><div><a href="mailto:noll@cs.tu-berlin.de">noll@cs.tu-berlin.de</a></div><div>Escola Superior de Musica de Catalunya, Barcelona </div><div>Departament de Teoria i Composició </div><div><br class="ecxkhtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>*********************************************************</div></div></div></div><div><br></div></div></span><br class="ecxApple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="ecxApple-interchange-newline"></div><br></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>PS: My other mail <a href="mailto:tnoll@iua.upf.edu">tnoll@iua.upf.edu</a> doesn't exist any longer.<div><br><div><div>*********************************************************</div><div>Thomas Noll</div><div><a href="http://flp.cs.tu-berlin.de/~noll">http://flp.cs.tu-berlin.de/~noll</a></div><div><a href="mailto:noll@cs.tu-berlin.de">noll@cs.tu-berlin.de</a></div><div>Escola Superior de Musica de Catalunya, Barcelona </div><div>Departament de Teoria i Composició </div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>*********************************************************</div></div></div></div><div><br></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div></div></body></html>