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The Scottsboro Boys is a musical with a book by David Thompson, music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb.Based on the Scottsboro Boys trial, the musical is one of the last collaborations between Kander and Ebb prior to the latter's death.
List of musical chords Name Chord on C Sound # of p.c.-Forte # p.c. #s Quality ... 0 3 6 e: Diminished Diminished seventh chord (leading-tone and secondary chord)
Huddie William Ledbetter (/ ˈ h j uː d i / HYOO-dee; January 1888 [1] [2] or 1889 [3] – December 6, 1949), [1] better known by the stage name Lead Belly, was an American folk and blues singer notable for his strong vocals, virtuosity on the twelve-string guitar, and the folk standards he introduced, including his renditions of "In the Pines" (also known as "Where Did You Sleep Last Night ...
Scottsboro, Alabama, United States; Scottsboro, Georgia, United States; The Scottsboro Boys, involved in a racially charged legal case that made it to the United States Supreme Court; Scottsboro: A Novel, a 2008 novel by Ellen Feldman nominated for the Orange Prize for Fiction; Scottsboro: An American Tragedy, a 2001 documentary about the above ...
Esus4: E-B-E-A-B-E, E-A-B-E-B-E (the latter used by Jars of Clay on their debut album Jars of Clay) E7sus4 : E-A-D-E-B-E (used by Ed Sheeran in "Tenerife Sea.") EEEEBE a.k.a. "Bruce Palmer Modal Tuning," as named and used by Stephen Stills in " Suite: Judy Blue Eyes where Stills uses this tuning while the other guitar is in standard tuning.
John Kander and Fred Ebb were introduced by their mutual music publisher Tommy Valando in 1962. Kander and Ebb met at Ebb's apartment and decided to test their compatibility as writing partners with a "mock title song" for a musical comedy already running on Broadway, a Hal Prince production called Take Her, She's Mine. [1]
A 2008 medley by the comedy group the Axis of Awesome, called "Four Chords", demonstrated the ubiquity of the progression in popular music, for comic effect; for instance, as the progression is played as an ostinato, sometimes it is used as a vi–IV–I–V (i. e. the "pessimistic" inversion). It does not accurately represent the chord ...
The most basic three-chord progressions of Western harmony have only major chords. In each key, three chords are designated with the Roman numerals (of musical notation): The tonic (I), the subdominant (IV), and the dominant (V). While the chords of each three-chord progression are numbered (I, IV, and V), they appear in other orders. [f] [18]