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“usquabae”
Upvoted for teaching me a new word… thanks, AndyW.
Edgar Degas: "Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.... To draw, you must close your eyes and sing."
Georges Braque: "In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that can’t be explained."
Me too! I had always seen it in Scotland as "uisge beatha"
Essential word too!
I had always seen it in Scotland as "uisge beatha"
In Irish it's similar: uisce beatha (water of life).
An interesting little book called "L'argot des musiciens" provides a bit of info on the origins of the chord sequences known as anatole, christophe, and julot. Julot, not yet discussed here, is the sequence C-C7-F-Fm-G7 (which often follows the anatole), thought to originate with gypsy guitarists in the 40s. The authors accept saxophonist Jean-Claude Fohrenbach's explanation of the origins of anatole (C-Am-Dm-G7): a post-war guitarist or banjoist, lacking musical education, assigned names to the chord sequences that he used most often. Like anatole... Hugues Panassie, however, says that it comes from medicine, where a skeleton is often called "anatole", chords being the skeleton of a tune. "Christophe" is attributed to Jean-Claude Fohrenbach.
And am I the only person who plays a descending Bm to start the 2nd 8 of "Django's Tiger"?
Here's where we discussed all the same things 10 years ago..
https://www.djangobooks.com/forum/discussion/11161/what-is-this-progression-help
@scot I'll also play a Bm there occasionally, or just stay on E7. Instead of that E7 - F7 - E7 thing, which is a travesty.
a post-war guitarist or banjoist, lacking musical education, assigned names to the chord sequences that he used most often.
I once played with an elderly Capeverdian cavaquinho player who didn't know the names of any chords but had a good ear and played the major, minor, dominant and half diminished chords common in Capeverdian songs perfectly; he had his own naming system based on numbers for the different chord types. I think a major chord was 1, dominant 2, minor 3 and half diminished 4.
We all know this clip. It seems appropriate to the direction of this thread.
Christophe progression (or I already heard 'sequence plagiale mineure' i.e minor plagial progression) and I think the diminished chord replace a minor one (see for instance the course of Denis Chang):
IV IVm I then VI7 (instead of VIm) to 'call' the II (m or 7) and then the usual II V I.
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"cristophe changes" yes.
I've heard these 8 bars named 'the horse' as well.