David Huron
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780262034852
- eISBN:
- 9780262335447
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262034852.003.0009
- Subject:
- Music, Theory, Analysis, Composition
Chapter 9 discusses embellishing tones—such as passing tones, suspensions, and appoggiaturas. Embellishments can serve a number of functions, including adding dissonance, creating or heightening ...
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Chapter 9 discusses embellishing tones—such as passing tones, suspensions, and appoggiaturas. Embellishments can serve a number of functions, including adding dissonance, creating or heightening expectations, drawing attention to neighboring structural tones, or simply adding interest to a musical texture. However, this chapter focuses on how the presence of embellishing tones can contribute to the perceptual independence of concurrent voices. It is shown that embellishing tones are deployed in ways consistent with five different techniques for enhancing voice independence.Less
Chapter 9 discusses embellishing tones—such as passing tones, suspensions, and appoggiaturas. Embellishments can serve a number of functions, including adding dissonance, creating or heightening expectations, drawing attention to neighboring structural tones, or simply adding interest to a musical texture. However, this chapter focuses on how the presence of embellishing tones can contribute to the perceptual independence of concurrent voices. It is shown that embellishing tones are deployed in ways consistent with five different techniques for enhancing voice independence.
Gary Giddins
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816690411
- eISBN:
- 9781452949536
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816690411.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies
This chapter discusses the musicians that greatly influenced the career of Charlie Parker. Charlie took a job at the popular hangout place Jimmy’s Chicken Shack where he met Art Tatum, a pianist who ...
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This chapter discusses the musicians that greatly influenced the career of Charlie Parker. Charlie took a job at the popular hangout place Jimmy’s Chicken Shack where he met Art Tatum, a pianist who inspired him that that any note could be made to fit in a chord. He then performed a music gig at Times Square where he met Bill “Biddy” Fleet who taught him the harmonic theory. He practiced what he learned from Tatum and Fleet, playing passing tones and concentrating on the higher intervals of chords raised to ninths, elevenths, or thirteenths.Less
This chapter discusses the musicians that greatly influenced the career of Charlie Parker. Charlie took a job at the popular hangout place Jimmy’s Chicken Shack where he met Art Tatum, a pianist who inspired him that that any note could be made to fit in a chord. He then performed a music gig at Times Square where he met Bill “Biddy” Fleet who taught him the harmonic theory. He practiced what he learned from Tatum and Fleet, playing passing tones and concentrating on the higher intervals of chords raised to ninths, elevenths, or thirteenths.
