<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Hi Everyone, </div><div><br></div><div>I did a little investigation and found something interesting. "Frantonality" is indeed named after a friend named Fran, but not just any old Fran. The song is named after Frances Kelley, who briefly ran a label in Los Angeles called Fran-tone records. Garner's recording of "Frantonality" (recorded in Hollywood, April 9, 1946) was for that label records, and thus the title is also an advertisement for the label. According to James Doran's book on Erroll Garner, some of the originals were mistaken issued as "Frantenality." </div><div><br></div><div>I haven't done any other research on Frances Kelley, but did come across this mention of her in Duke Ellingtons' <i>Music is My Mistress</i>, the chapter on San Francisco. "And there is one more person--Fran Kelley, musician, poet, songwriter, singer, orchestrator, manager, executive. This great woman with all these talents gave up running a radio station and record company in Los Angeles to pursue her spiritual quests in San Francisco." I'm not sure if this is the same Frances Kelley who was a member of the 1950's R&B groups The Enchanters and the Dell-tones.</div><div><br></div><div>One other thing, I don't know if its quite accurate to say that "Frantonality" is a homage to old-fashioned Harlem stride piano. I mean, what Erroll Garner performance isn't? The tune strikes me as more closely related to the be-bop practice of taking old standards and writing new melodies--like "Ornithology" c/w "How High The Moon". This would make sense for 1946. Although the melody isn't bebop, the tune is a simplified version of "Love Me or Leave Me." </div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Brian</div></div><div><br></div><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><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline; ">_________________</span></div><div>Brian Kane</div><div><div>Assistant Professor</div><div>Department of Music</div><div>Yale University</div><div>206 Stoeckel Hall</div><div><br></div></div></div><div><br></div></div><br></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br><div><div>On Oct 3, 2009, at 10:44 AM, Thomas Noll wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div 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></div>_______________________________________________<br>Smt-talk mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Smt-talk@societymusictheory.org">Smt-talk@societymusictheory.org</a><br>http://lists.societymusictheory.org/listinfo.cgi/smt-talk-societymusictheory.org<br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>