Re: More questions on scales

"LJS" <ljschenck@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> By the way, Bobby Darin may have preceded Danny and the Jrs with Mack
> The Knife and 1/2 step modulations in the category of pop music. He
> certainly preceded  Barry Manilow by 20 years on this count. I don't,
> however, remember that either of the mentioned examples of the 1/2
> modulation were considered revolutionary and I believe that they were
> fairly common much earlier than you state.

Scanning through what I'm supposed to be playing with dr Jazz and the 
Cheshre Cats on Saturday night at a wedding reception, I see that our 
chanteur, Peter, will be doing a couple (from the Sinatra repertoire, I 
think) and at least two

River Stay Away From My Door
You Make me Feel So Young

modulate up a semi tone.    I think these are reasonably authentic charts,

and so I imagine that the originals did this.

Modulating up a semitone is of course much better than the worst artifice
of 
a composer/arranger who has run out of ideas - modulating up a tone.  
Apart 
from one exception this is invariable dire.   The exception is the one
about 
waving chickens in the air from the Spitting Image team: that modulates up
a 
tone very subtly in every verse, so after 6 verses you're singing an
octave 
higher and wondering what's going on :-)

Dave
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