Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Its songs include the well-known "Tea for Two" and "I Want to Be Happy". After a pre-Broadway tour in 1924, the musical was revised for a production later 1924 in Chicago, where it became a hit and ran for more than a year. In 1925 No, No, Nanette opened both on Broadway and in London's West End, running for 321 and 665 performances ...
A contrafact is a musical composition built using the chord progression of a pre-existing song, but with a new melody and arrangement. Typically the original tune's progression and song form will be reused but occasionally just a section will be reused in the new composition. The term comes from classical music and was first applied to jazz by ...
Ultimate Guitar (Ultimate Guitar USA LLC), also known as Ultimate-Guitar.com or simply UG, is an online platform for guitarists and musicians, started on October 9, 1998 by Eugeny Naidenov [1] and based in San Francisco, US.
"Tea for Two" is a 1924 song composed by Vincent Youmans, with lyrics by Irving Caesar. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It was introduced in May 1924 by Phyllis Cleveland and John Barker during the Chicago pre- Broadway run of the musical No, No, Nanette .
The ChordPro (also known as Chord) format is a text-based markup language for representing chord charts by describing the position of chords in relation to the song's lyrics. ChordPro also provides markup to denote song sections (e.g., verse, chorus, bridge), song metadata (e.g., title, tempo, key), and generic annotations (i.e., notes to the ...
Arthur Tatum Jr. (/ ˈ t eɪ t əm /, October 13, 1909 – November 5, 1956) was an American jazz pianist who is widely regarded as one of the greatest ever. [1] [2] From early in his career, fellow musicians acclaimed Tatum's technical ability as extraordinary.
Tahiti Trot (Russian: Таити трот, romanized: Taiti trot) (or Tea for Two), [1] Op. 16, is an arrangement for symphony orchestra by Dmitri Shostakovich of the song "Tea for Two" from the musical No, No, Nanette by Vincent Youmans. It was composed in 1927 and resulted from a bet between the composer and the score's dedicatee, Nicolai Malko.
The vi chord before the IV chord in this progression (creating I–vi–IV–V–I) is used as a means to prolong the tonic chord, as the vi or submediant chord is commonly used as a substitute for the tonic chord, and to ease the voice leading of the bass line: in a I–vi–IV–V–I progression (without any chordal inversions) the bass ...