Music For Titles

Usually it's the other way around, but back in the Tin P and Brill  days, musical ideas came from the natural rhythms in a title idea, and typically became the chorus. Musical ideas were also driven by rhythmic riffs in language, such as "Shave an a haircut, two bits" riff which became a Blues riff.

These are drawn from the excellent book Historically Black Phrases.






 

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