My highschool jazz choir did this piece last year, which was originally a piano piece written by Debussy. Glee did a cover of it with singers scatting. This reminds me of our babbling in class and also "A-B-A" in the Darling Conversations when they scat to Jingle Bells. This shows that you can scat any song and explore it in a new way. I think it would be really fun to babble an instrumental piece that we know instead of babbling with no guideline. Making up sounds for a piano, like in the song above, would be really cool.
Monday, September 17, 2012
Babbling/Scatting
My highschool jazz choir did this piece last year, which was originally a piano piece written by Debussy. Glee did a cover of it with singers scatting. This reminds me of our babbling in class and also "A-B-A" in the Darling Conversations when they scat to Jingle Bells. This shows that you can scat any song and explore it in a new way. I think it would be really fun to babble an instrumental piece that we know instead of babbling with no guideline. Making up sounds for a piano, like in the song above, would be really cool.
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It is really cool to think that we can do these things with classical songs. I am amazed that today musicians are willing to play around with classical songs and make them more appealing to people who have not been exposed to classical music.
ReplyDeleteGlee has been a fantastic way to bring classic songs and even choir music back into modern day culture. This song is a great example of Glee bringing Jazz (even though modernized) back into modern day society.
ReplyDeleteI also love listening to these kinds of songs because you can still hear the emotion of the song without there ever being one word spoken!