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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: You will just have to take my word for it posted by John Marks on May 14, 2015 at 15:31:12:
"The last 8 chords (I have the sheet in a folder somewhere but I apparently never scanned it, and old age is making me lazy) are so lacking in centeredness and confidence and resolution. That is what the song and the music is about. Being adrift because of having been rejected. It not only doesn't need "jazzing up," it suffers from it. The 8 last syllables and 8 last chords (from memory, I don't have the sheet in front of me) just have to end without resolution and hang there."
Well, it ends on the tonic chord. It's a series of chords that leads to and ends on the tonic chord. I imagine you know that those last chords on the Coltrane/Hartman version are not Strayhorn's, they removed the contrary motion in the bass and made them parallel ascending chords. In other words they changed them just as you accuse Alexander of.
Dave
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Follow Ups
- RE: You will just have to take my word for it - David Smith 18:50:54 05/14/15 (3)
- Not the same thing. IMHO - John Marks 20:26:03 05/14/15 (2)
- So now there should not be a golden fence around the sheet music? - David Smith 20:57:15 05/14/15 (1)
- Interesting point - kavakidd 23:55:52 05/14/15 (0)
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