Music "All The Things You Are"

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“All the things you are” is a song composed by Jerome Kern, with lyrics written by Oscar Hammerstein II. It is acknowledged that this song is one of the most well-known and standardized jazz style music in our time. Actually, it can be divided into four sections, which is an AA’BA’’ structure. A is labeled as the first section of the tune, comprised of bars one to eight, continently with A’, which contains another eight bar phrase. The difference between A and A’ is about their keys. After the exposition stage, B section with bar seventeen to bar twenty-four is called the development section. Since the melody line has changed and two new key centers appear, section B is also regarded as the “bridge” section of All The Things You Are. The final section A”, called the “recapitulation”, has the bar twenty-five through thirty-six. The extra 4 bars in A” section onto the end change the song length up to 36 bars which is different from the typical 32. There are several solos in this song, which contain Gillespie, Mingus, and Parker. At the beginning, Parker and Gillespie played in the background while Mingus played solo at the end. All of them together make the song facilitated transited. In deep, Parker and Gillespie are strong and attractive, compared to soft Mingus. It is easier to see Mingus solo are occupied 16 bars while Parker and Gillespie each take on 36 choruses. Nevertheless, “All the things you are” are shocked classical jazz world. The modulations in this song are extremely unique for a pop song of the period, and present challenges to a singer or improviser. It not only emerged in countless films and other kind of media, but also drew jazz lovers’
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