1. Portrait of Helen Merrill by Helen Merrill and composed by Marian McPartland by panio
According to the narration of Ms. McPlantland, Helen Merrill birth name was Jelena Ana Milcetic and she was born in New York in 1930. She started singing in local jazz clubs at just the age of fourteen. Merrill time touring was mostly spent in europe after her irregular recording through the fifties and sixties. She had more commercial success there than she did in the United States. Merrill lived in Italy for a little while where she did live concerts with jazz notables Chet Baker, Romano Mussolini, and Stan Getz.
The aspect of Duration in this piece was softened with a little sense of urgency in the pulse. In the cause of that the beat was in a constant …show more content…
Being though the space was there it created a wide dragging and high pitch texture throughout the piece. the polyphony was in a two note accompany.
The piece volume was at a dynamic that was soft reasonable on the calm. In my own opinion i can see this piece being played at a ballet recital. The ballet dancer will be moving o so smoothly, following the pace of the music.
Conclusively the timbre is very visual in a way. The tone-color of the mid high pitch gives off a mellow , grayish blue feel thats follows through the piece. The tone-quality was rather pure; it contained an authentic sound. In the middle of the piece that natural feel gained a little classical booming for a slight moment then mellowed out.
In conclusion, I thought that “Portrails Of Helen Merrill” was a pleasant sound to listen to. Coming from someone that never actually listened to jazz pieces, this piece painted a a visual in my head. As I listen through the song different cool, clam and mellow feels occur throughout. that's why I chose this piece, it was one you can feel the composer was trying to
According to the narration of Ms. McPlantland, Helen Merrill birth name was Jelena Ana Milcetic and she was born in New York in 1930. She started singing in local jazz clubs at just the age of fourteen. Merrill time touring was mostly spent in europe after her irregular recording through the fifties and sixties. She had more commercial success there than she did in the United States. Merrill lived in Italy for a little while where she did live concerts with jazz notables Chet Baker, Romano Mussolini, and Stan Getz.
The aspect of Duration in this piece was softened with a little sense of urgency in the pulse. In the cause of that the beat was in a constant …show more content…
Being though the space was there it created a wide dragging and high pitch texture throughout the piece. the polyphony was in a two note accompany.
The piece volume was at a dynamic that was soft reasonable on the calm. In my own opinion i can see this piece being played at a ballet recital. The ballet dancer will be moving o so smoothly, following the pace of the music.
Conclusively the timbre is very visual in a way. The tone-color of the mid high pitch gives off a mellow , grayish blue feel thats follows through the piece. The tone-quality was rather pure; it contained an authentic sound. In the middle of the piece that natural feel gained a little classical booming for a slight moment then mellowed out.
In conclusion, I thought that “Portrails Of Helen Merrill” was a pleasant sound to listen to. Coming from someone that never actually listened to jazz pieces, this piece painted a a visual in my head. As I listen through the song different cool, clam and mellow feels occur throughout. that's why I chose this piece, it was one you can feel the composer was trying to