He uses the same structure when comping as well. The right hand of Red’s block chords are usually a repetitive structure, an octave with a fifth in between. Red Garland was famous for his block chords. As Rachmaninoff makes clear, high register fourths and fifths at the piano are a natural approximation of bells. Good public bells are specially tuned to bring out the sweet spots of their natural harmonic resonance. Rachmaninoff loved his liturgical bells, for example in the climax of this Op. Liszt’s “Evening Bells” from his late suite Christmas Tree ends with an impressive foreshadowing of impressionism:ĭebussy was deeply inspired by the gamelan, the Eastern orchestra comprised of tuned bells. The scampanatino (“like bells”) variation of Alkan’s Le Festin d’ Ésope has an upper ostinato descant that clashes with the lower voices: Familiar examples are in Bach cantatas and Mozart operas.īeginning with the Romantics, bell textures became a resource at the piano. Once notation became formal practice in Europe, composers would experiment with folkloric bells for special effect.
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