​Musical Links Investigation
Links between Classical Music And Modal Jazz Using Examples.
By Anupama Rijhwani
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Homophony in Miles Davis' So What is prominent, but with the trumpet in the lead, the homophony is mostly melody dominated. An example of homophony can be found here:
Homophony in So What
Here, we can see that the piano, bass guitar, saxophones and trumpet are all in harmony in the D Dorian mode. This therefore shows homophony. But, with the trumpet's lead melody and improvisation, it poses melody-dominated homophony throughout:
Here we can see the trumpet lead in score in the first D Dorian section and the E flat Dorian section. This shows an exert of the melody-dominated homophony shown throughout the track. Melody-dominated homophony is also posed in the bass and piano parts during their respective solos and improvisations in the latter part of the song.
The only differences between the melody dominated homophonies in 'Credo' and 'So What' are the fact that the trumpet heavily depends on improvisation here. In the classical era, improvisation was not popular, and therefore there is no such kind in 'Credo'.