The Late Duke: Ellington's and Strayhorn's Music for "Anatomy of a Murder" Considered
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The Late Duke: Ellington's and Strayhorn's Music for "Anatomy of a Murder" Considered
Jazz Perspectives
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75-121
2012/08
eng
1749-4060, 1749-4079
The music for the 1959 film and sound track album Anatomy of a Murder presents a comprehensive account of important features of the later, i.e. post-Newport, oeuvre of the Duke Ellington Orchestra and its two composers. With its distinctive orchestration, imaginative formal design, use of thematic transformation as a means of musical growth, unity in the midst of compositional collaboration, advances in the handling of tonality, harmony, and dissonance, exploitation of the “suite” ideal as a compositional form, and adherence to the coloristic “Ellington Effect,” Anatomy's music affords a great comprehension of what Ellington, Strayhorn, and the orchestra were about in a richly productive later period for the band.
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10.1080/17494060.2012.721291
The Late Duke
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