He described himself as a diaskeuast from greek, a reviser or interpolator. Meet eminent musicologist, composer and conductor nicolas slonimsky 18941995, upbeat even for his standards, at the berkeley piano club on august 18, 1971. The purpose of putting together the thesaurus of scales and melodic patterns is to provide a comprehensive vocabulary of melodic phraseology for modern composers and performers. Thesaurus of scales and melodic patterns nicolas slonimsky on. Download scientific diagram an image of the mother chord and grandmother chord in slonimskys thesaurus of scales and melodic patterns p. Guitar book nicolas slonimsky thesaurus of scales and melodic patterns free ebook download as pdf file. The grandmother chord similarly contains every interval and every note, and it also alternates the intervals between odd and even in a pattern.
Whoever used it, slominskys book really is very handy, if you work at it. Cyclic patterns in john coltranes melodic vocabulary as. The mother of all chords is a chord that contains all chords within it. I think its one of those books you dont have to willfully, consciously absorb like youre cramming for a chemistry midterm. Guitar book nicolas slonimsky thesaurus of scales and. Thesaurus of scales and melodic patterns slonimsky, nicolas. Grandmother chord play help info, first used by nicolas slonimsky throughout his life, slonimsky wrote extensively for periodicals and newspapers, produced program and liner notes, and contributed to numerous reference works.
Slonimsky and the expanding tonality of coltrane dennis belisle. Dec 22, 2000 since its publication in 1947, great musicians and composers of all genres from arnold schoenberg and virgil thomson to john coltrane and freddie hubbard have sworn by this legendary volume and its comprehensive vocabulary of melodic patterns, for composition and improvisation. Targeting notes with slonimsky patterns cochrane music. Many guitarists and others own a copy, but few have got much advantage from it. Petersburg, russia, in 1894, nicolas slonimsky was a writer, lexicographer, pianist, composer, conductor, and champion of contemporary music.
His first book, music since 1900, appeared in 1937. The grandmother chord is an eleveninterval, twelvenote, invertible chord with all of the properties of the mother chord. If you look at certain scales in the thesaurus, there are numbers in circles. Thesaurus of scales and melodic patterns nicolas slonimsky. Jul 26, 2016 i dont think the slonimsky is a book you have to take page 1 to the end to get benefits from. April 15 1894 december 25, 1995, born nikolai leonidovich slonimskiy russian. But thats only one reason why this book should be acquired, cherished, and continually browsed.
Grandmother and i are sitting on the big chair, rocking. Allinterval twelvetone row project gutenberg selfpublishing. Gendered migrant subjectivities are a key site for understanding the production of neoliberal capitalism and ukrainian nationstate building, a fraught process that places ukraine precariously between europe and russia with dramatic implications for the political economy of the region. Its a valuable companion to the thesaurus, especially for guitarists, as well as a huge resource in itself, with over 400 pages of carefullyselected and organised patterns in conventional notation and tab. Tune into an evening of nicolas slonimskys highly comic logorrhea as he is interviewed on march 12, 1987 as part of the san francisco exploratoriums speaking of music series. This book is a condensed, madeforguitar version of nicolas slonimsky s publication thesaurus of scales and melodic patterns the book that musicians as diverse as john coltrane and frank zappa used for ideas and inspiration. Nicolas slonimskys first edition of music since 1900 came out in 1937his entry into the world of lexicographyand this fifth edition, published in 1994, was the last book he wrote. The odd intervals go 11, 9, 7, 5, 3, 1, and the even ones go 2, 4, 6, 8, 10. Nicolas slonimsky published his thesaurus of scales and melodic patterns in 1947. Finding slonimsky s thesaurus of scales and melodic patterns. Books, thesaurus of scales and melodic patterns, slonimsky. Chord, invented by nico las slonimsky on february, 1938, containing all 12 different cones and different intervals sym.
This new book rewrites the theory underlying the first twelve chapters of slonimsky s book and presents brand new patterns based on it. Other people have laps for sitting on and backs for riding on. Thesaurus of scales and melodic patterns slonimsky, nicolas on. In music, an allinterval twelvetone row, series, or chord, is a twelvetone tone row arranged so that it contains one instance of each interval within the octave, 1 through 11 an ordering of every interval, 0 through 11, that contains each ordered pitchinterval class, 0 through 11. Nicolas slonimsky, thesaurus of scales and melodic patterns, table from the. Since its publication in 1947, great musicians and composers of all genres from arnold schoenberg and virgil thomson to john coltrane and freddie hubbard have sworn by this legendary volume and its comprehensive vocabulary of melodic patterns, for composition and improvisation. It was invented by nicolas slonimsky on february, 1938. In this highly influential book, he defines five distinct 12tone chord voicings two of which are credited to fritz klein. Buy thesaurus of scales and melodic patterns text by slonimsky, nicolas isbn. So, example target notes for gm7 would be bb the 3 and f the 7. May 23, 2018 grandmother chord about this sound play helpinfo, first used by nicolas slonimsky slonimsky began writing songs and other incidental pieces, and performed as a piano soloist and vocal accompanist. Jul 04, 2018 nicolas slonimsky published his thesaurus of scales and melodic patterns in 1947. Thesaurus of scales and melodic patterns book depository.
Bakers biographical dictionary of musicians by nicolas. Im also purchasing a drum pad and a book on the subject, for those of you who helped on my thread. Nicolas slonimsky author of lexicon of musical invective. The mother chord with the additional constraint of alternately odd and even intervals with odd successively decreasing, and even increasing. Finally i created a chord which i called the grandmother chord, because it. Thesaurus of scales and melodic patterns by nicolas slonimsky, 9781258454166, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. The next step, before i got into lexicography, was my book thesaurus of scales.
More than a decade ago, when he was in his early nineties, nicolas slonimsky used to delight. A common approach is to find certain important notes in each chord and then play lines that target them by linking them together. Speaking of music nicolas slonimsky, march 12, 1987. Nicolas slonimsky the grandmother chord is an eleveninterval. The linear diagrams presented here, read left to right, indicate pitches from low to high. Nicolas slonimsky at the berkeley piano club 1971 youtube. Nicolas slonimskys thesaurus of scales and melodic patterns is a legendary book that has influenced musicians as diverse as john coltrane, jaco pastorius, frank zappa and buckethead. Nicolas slonimsky is the author of lexicon of musical invective 4. I dont think the slonimsky is a book you have to take page 1 to the end to get benefits from.
The grandmother chord is an eleveninterval, twelvenote, invertible chord. Aug 23, 2019 meet eminent musicologist, composer and conductor nicolas slonimsky 18941995, upbeat even for his standards, at the berkeley piano club on august 18, 1971. From the poem we have understood that m any old people feel lonely. The master chords slonimsky talks about are chords that can be used to harmonize certain scalesportions of scales in the thesaurus. Download the entire book completely free nicolas slonimsky s thesaurus of scales and melodic patterns is a legendary book that has influenced musicians as diverse as john coltrane, jaco pastorius, frank zappa and buckethead. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Wianno posted a link to the books aurthor the guy is deep himself i think the links are above in this rant about this book but youl love it believe me also every scale and harmonic melodic pattern you never heard of is in this book ever hear of a grandmother chord i am still in the first chapter working the turn arounds for these monster. In 1927 he formed the boston chamber orchestra, for which he solicited music from contemporary composers. John coltrane, chord progression of giant steps, transcribed by andrew white.
On the shoulders of grandmothers is a global ethnography of ukrainian transnational migration. Music of latin america nicolas slonimsky snippet view 1945. Host charles amirkhanian hardly needs to ask a question of his 92year old russianborn guest, the father of the grandmother chord. But when you have a cold or lighting is coming, nothing feels quite as right as rocking on grandmother s lap, listening to the little tunes that she hums. I believe theres more info on it in later chapters, too.
An image of the mother chord and grandmother chord in slonimskys. The contents furnish ample material for imaginative improvisation and actual composition. The book is divided into several sections, just take a section at a time. A synopsis of chords concludes with the grandmother chord containing all twelve chromatic tones and eleven symmetrically invertible intervals. A reference book of scales and melodic patterns, presented in the form of piano scales and melodic studies. Equivalent to nicolas slonimskys grandmother chord. Among his books, some more scholarly, though no less defiant of academic conventions, one is his thesaurus of scales and melodic patterns 1947, an inventory of all conceivable and inconceivable tonal combinations, culminating in a mindboggling grandmother chord containing 12 different tones and 11 different intervals. I havent seen the grandmother chord in the real book yet.
In music, an allinterval twelvetone row, series, or chord, is a twelve tone tone row arranged so. Quartal chord, chord of the minor 23rd, pyramid chord, mother chord, and grandmother chord. The socalled mother chord is an example used as bergs lyric suite and possibly devised by fritz klein the grandmother chord slonimsky. Slonimskys thesaurus what is the for guitar version. Finding slonimskys thesaurus of scales and melodic patterns in two concerti by john adams john adams has candidly acknowledged the signi.
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