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"Queen of the Slipstream" was recorded at the same sessions as the other tracks that were released on Poetic Champions Compose in the summer of 1987 at the Wool Hall Studios, Beckington. [2] The song is a romantic ballad composed in the key of E major with a chord progression of E-G#m-A.
Popularized by the jazz pianist George Shearing, it is a way to implement the "block chord" method of harmony on a keyboard instrument. The locked hands technique requires the pianist to play the melody using both hands in unison. The right hand plays a 4-note chord inversion in which the melody note is the highest note in the voicing.
"He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's the Pilot." is a song by American indie rock band Grandaddy, released as the third single from their second studio album The Sophtware Slump (2000). Writing and composition
The Magic Chord is a chord and installation (1984) created by La Monte Young, consisting of the pitches E, F, A, B ♭, D, E, G, and A, in ascending order and used in works including his The Well-Tuned Piano and Chronos Kristalla (1990). [1]
The chord had been found in earlier works, [3] notably Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 18, but Wagner's use was significant, first because it is seen as moving away from traditional tonal harmony and even towards atonality, and second because with this chord Wagner actually provoked the sound or structure of musical harmony to become more ...
The Descriptions automatiques inaugurated Satie's use of evocative fragments of popular music as an important element of his mature compositional style. A possible trigger for this development was the 1912 publication of his Pièces froides, [10] composed 15 years earlier, which would have reacquainted him with his first, isolated attempt at purely musical parody.
The beginning of the song alternates between the chords Gm7/D and Dm7/G, followed by F/C and other chords that suggest a key of F major, but ultimately ends at D/A. [11] Lambert was unable to determine if the section ends in the key of F, G, or D. [10] During one bar, the horn players perform a melodic phrase that replicates the laugh of the ...
Heures séculaires et instantanées (Age-Old and Instantaneous Hours) is a 1914 piano composition by Erik Satie. One of his humoristic keyboard suites of the 1910s, it features Satie's famous warning to pianists against reading aloud the fanciful texts that adorned his scores. In performance it lasts about 4 minutes.