Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie: Anthropology [NAWM 197]
- bebop tune and solo
- head in AABA
- Charlie Parker takes first solo, Dizzy Gillespie takes second, Bud Powell takes third, trade fours before head
- blistering pace characteristic of bebop, many syncopations and sudden stops, starts, and silences
- full of chromatic notes
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Leonard Bernstein: West Side Story, Act I, No. 8, “Cool”
- musical
- jazzy; words in English; one of my most favorite musicals ever so there’s no way I’ll ever miss this one
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Vincent Persichetti: Symphony for Band (Symphony No. 6), Op. 69: First movement, Adagio–Allegro
- symphony for band
- slow introduction and an Allegro in sonata form
- lots of percussion!
- themes are mostly diatonic, most chords based on thirds or fifths, changes of pitch collection and shades of greater or lesser dissonance create a sense of harmonic motion, tension, and resolution
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