I haven't heard Gershwin's own playing. He's got a great sense of rhythm! I shouldn't be surprised, but when you listen to a lot of recordings of his arrangements, they often feel stiff, like a classical musician is playing them. I bet his original performances of Rhapsody in Blue were a lot more songlike than what we hear now.
Artis Wodehouse has made excellent transcriptions of the disc recordings Gershwin has made in the recordings from 1926 and 1928. She published them in 1987. This transcription looks almost the same as the one she has made. Most of the differences are issues like a rhythmical or a enharmonic notation and also the chord symbols.
Dear Albert, how much would you charge to do a transcription of "Limehouse Blues" recorded by Arthur Schutt in 1929, and post the sheet music and recording here on TH-cam? Do you take PayPal? Thanks! -Andrew
Question: what is he doing with the harmonic progression from mm 79-82? It looks like he goes from E to B (enharmonic of Cb, the b6 or It+6 of Eb, and then goes from B around the circle of fiths to E, and then from E to C, which is the b6 (It+6) of E, and then suddenly he just HITS Eb and he's back in the home key again. What a wild modulation!
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I haven't heard Gershwin's own playing. He's got a great sense of rhythm! I shouldn't be surprised, but when you listen to a lot of recordings of his arrangements, they often feel stiff, like a classical musician is playing them. I bet his original performances of Rhapsody in Blue were a lot more songlike than what we hear now.
Really great transcriptions. Many thanks! I can only imagine the work it must have taken to produce these.
Artis Wodehouse has made excellent transcriptions of the disc recordings Gershwin has made in the recordings from 1926 and 1928. She published them in 1987. This transcription looks almost the same as the one she has made. Most of the differences are issues like a rhythmical or a enharmonic notation and also the chord symbols.
Love it
Great work and thanks for sharing!! please notice a mistake: measure 69, the second g minor chord is an octave higher.
This is awesome dude!
Dear Albert, how much would you charge to do a transcription of "Limehouse Blues" recorded by Arthur Schutt in 1929, and post the sheet music and recording here on TH-cam? Do you take PayPal? Thanks! -Andrew
Question: what is he doing with the harmonic progression from mm 79-82? It looks like he goes from E to B (enharmonic of Cb, the b6 or It+6 of Eb, and then goes from B around the circle of fiths to E, and then from E to C, which is the b6 (It+6) of E, and then suddenly he just HITS Eb and he's back in the home key again. What a wild modulation!
It's kind of like Richard Strauss played backwards.