FOR THE BOLIC BASIC TRACKS referenced in the video, click "show more" on the description. In terms of the form of this piece, the metric structures seem to be very much based around the length of the lyrics' phrases. This pieces is dominated by a call-and-response type dynamic between Zappa's narration and the word-painting built into many of the phrases that you can hear responding to Zappa's utterances in the original non-instrumental version. Texturally, accompanimant is largely sparse, being driven by the late, great Ralph Humphrey's drumming, with most of the ensemble joining in to play unison passages, either the recurring blues licks, or the more comical effects. I have transcribed the accompaniment as it appears on tracks used by Zappa on the Apostrophe album, but as you can hear in the rejected take which directly precedes the used basic tracks on the Bolic Studios recording, it varied every time they played the song. I did not analyse Rollo Interior... because I have already done that! Go to the video linked both in this video's annotations and in the description to see this. I transcribed the entirety of what you see here. Let me know if you would write anything differently! There were multiple things I would frequently change my mind on, especially the best way to notate the song's meters, which feel intuitive, but don't always look so neat on the page.
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FOR THE BOLIC BASIC TRACKS referenced in the video, click "show more" on the description.
In terms of the form of this piece, the metric structures seem to be very much based around the length of the lyrics' phrases. This pieces is dominated by a call-and-response type dynamic between Zappa's narration and the word-painting built into many of the phrases that you can hear responding to Zappa's utterances in the original non-instrumental version.
Texturally, accompanimant is largely sparse, being driven by the late, great Ralph Humphrey's drumming, with most of the ensemble joining in to play unison passages, either the recurring blues licks, or the more comical effects. I have transcribed the accompaniment as it appears on tracks used by Zappa on the Apostrophe album, but as you can hear in the rejected take which directly precedes the used basic tracks on the Bolic Studios recording, it varied every time they played the song.
I did not analyse Rollo Interior... because I have already done that! Go to the video linked both in this video's annotations and in the description to see this.
I transcribed the entirety of what you see here. Let me know if you would write anything differently! There were multiple things I would frequently change my mind on, especially the best way to notate the song's meters, which feel intuitive, but don't always look so neat on the page.
"Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny."
Great googly moogly!😃
I never would have expected this to be in my sub box this morning but I'm so glad that it is
Yes indeed, here we are
Ahh, Zappie
AWESOME!!!!
Love it