[Download the scores for the Analysis assignment associated with this listening list. Scroll down to see the assignment.]
Prisoner of Love (Russ Columbo/Clarence Gaskill/Leo Robin 1931)
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OYKHyZIqTE>
Stormy Weather (Harold Arlen/Ted Keohler 1933) +2 extra credit
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCG3kJtQBKo>
Solitude (Duke Ellington/ Eddie DeLange & Irving Mills 1934)
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fuyn3GBEoCk>
I Get A Kick Out Of You (Cole Porter 1934)
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtwO2tKZmwQ>
Anything Goes (Cole Porter 1934)
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zJ3vqkXqRU>
Cheek to Cheek (Irving Berlin 1935) +1 extra credit
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeisCvjwBMo>
The Nearness of You (Hoagy Carmichael/Ned Washington 1938)
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqdaS0EOBHk>
At Last (Mack Gordon/Harry Warren 1941)
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwzDxp2TC7I>
Moonlight in Vermont (John Blackburn & Karl Suessdorf 1944)
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwyZyDD6Yqw>
— And, this is not in the genre … and he’s a bit too post-modern arty or a pop-music class, but I couldn’t resist adding some Sondhiem —
Losing My Mind (Stephen Sondheim 1971)
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCeQetI111c>
Analysis/Composition: Exercise 3 [Due ]
(20 points)
Choosing one of the songs above, or a similar song with instructor approval, complete an analysis that illuminates its harmonic and melodic structure.
1. Perform a rhythmic reduction following the model offered in class. Your submission of this part should include a reduced melody, a bass line representative of a typical recording’s chord progression (not the detailed or editorial decisions of an individual musician, and preferably not the bass line shown in the score), Roman numeral analysis, and essential intervals.
2. Distinguish prolongational from cadential harmony, and identify, wherever possible, stepwise structures in the melodic line.
3. Complete a short 16-bar AABA form, following the instructions in this week’s musicianship lab assignment (week 5).