Miles Davis Quintet - Four (Opening)

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Instrumental Music Mind Map on Miles Davis Quintet - Four (Opening), created by Alec Hewstone on 16/06/2013.
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Miles Davis Quintet - Four (Opening)
  1. Structure
    1. An opening 'Head' followed by several improvised choruses
      1. The same chord structure - changes - are used through the whole piece
      2. Rhythm and Meter
        1. Fast continuous crotchet walking bass
          1. Triplets appear occasionally
            1. The head is very syncopated
            2. Melody
              1. Fragmented with quaver rests
                1. Played mainly conjunct
                  1. Lots of short repeated scalic phrases
                    1. Notes played are not functional with harmony - Davis plays 'off the chord'
                      1. Lots of chromaticism
                      2. Instrumentation
                        1. Piano, bass, drums, trumped and tenor saxophone
                          1. Walking bass
                            1. Piano comping
                              1. Virtuosic trumpet playing
                                1. 'Fall offs' - a kind of glissando
                                  1. Ghost notes - very quiet notes
                                    1. Pitch bends
                                      1. Half valving
                                    2. Texture
                                      1. The head is melody dominated homophony
                                        1. The break before 1.1 is monophonic solo for trumpet
                                          1. Walking bass line provides a base for the whole piece
                                          2. Tonality
                                            1. The whole piece is in Eb major
                                              1. The style is so chromatic in the choruses that tonality is not always evident
                                              2. Harmony
                                                1. The underlying chord progression is relatively simple
                                                  1. A circle of 5ths in bars 1.26-1.29
                                                    1. Almost every chord is an extended chord - 9ths and 7ths
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