Composer Name
Ethan Spritzer
Description
For this project, I chose to compose a piece of a jazzier style because aside from playing Jazz piano in our school's jazz band, I have minimal experience composing music of this genre. The instrumentation of three horns, a piano and a drum set is like that of a jazz combo group, but without a base, so therefore, I hope to try to include baselines within the left hand of the piano. The harmony of this piece I envision to be rooted in F natural minor, but the first four bars I have revolved around a C7 flat 9 chord, while utilizing C phrygian scale. Later on, I hope to resolve this C phrygian harmony to F minor, or oscillate between these two harmonies to create dense, jazzy chord progressions.