Well I have started working on a new
piece for big band. The “head” is in a standard AABA form, but
with some of my particular peccadillos. In the A section every
fourth Bar (bars 4 and 8) are in 5/4 time (the rest of the bars are
in 4/4 time). And the B section is nine instead of the traditional
eight bars long. The B section is also built on a Tone Row and
Tri-Chords.
The A section features the Vibraphone
over a four bar bass ostinato; id est the bass ostinato is a 17 beat
pattern that is played twice in each A section. In the B section the
tri-chord change every three beats; thus we have a “harmonic”
rhythm of 3 beats occurring over four beats of the drums and the
melody and results in us having a nine bars of 4/4 for the B sections
(4 X 9 = 36: 36/3 = 12: 12 tone row played 3 times (O,R,I).
The working title is “One Eighty
Five”.
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