[Dixielandjazz] Listening To Quarter Tones - as promised

[Al Levy]

Happy New Year to you. (everyone in this list).  I am a little late in 
responding for two reasons. I was in the hospital (5 times in the past 6 
months), and just yesterday I thought of the perfect song to demonstrate 
the implications  (maybe psychology) of "pitch".

For your approval: 14 measures of "All The Things You Are", Jerome 
Kern's "perfect song." MP3 attached. I set it up as piano/vocal chart 
but I changed the staves to Vocal, Brass Section, and Upright Bass. Not 
a great scoring. I created it just for you. Anyone requesting the full 
MP3 or the complete chart can have it just for asking. Please listen 
carefully to the last two measures, 13 and 14. The last chord sounds 
like it should resolve up!

Here are the lyrics.

   "You are the promised kiss of springtime that makes the lonely winter 
seem long. You are the breathless hush of evening that - "trembles" (A 
flat 7-G flat on top) on the "brink" (D7 - F sharp on top) of a lovely 
(I cut it here) --> (measure 15) song."

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On 12/23/2019 8:51 PM, Charles Suhor wrote:
> Thanks, Al. I'm far from having perfect pitch, but as a drummer I 
> could usually tell when one sax player in a section was out of tune, 
> or when a trumpeter had the annoying habit of playing sharp. My bro 
> Don used to complain that in the latter case, he would seem to have a 
> "dead' sound when he soloed after the trumpet man.
> Charlie
>
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