Moonglow (song)

Moonglow (song)

"Moonglow", also known as "Moonglow and Love" is a 1933 popular song with music by Will Hudson and Irving Mills and words by Eddie DeLange.

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Musicological Notes

"Moonglow" is a 32 bar tune in the form of AABA, and features a chord progression and starting melody line strikingly similar to Irving Berlin's "Remember".

"Moonglow" appears in jazz fake books and lead sheets in the key of G, though it is also thought to originally be in the key of C.[1] It is tonal, however it begins on the IV chord, also referred to as the subdominant major chord, and the sixth, or submediant note of the major scale, before resolving onto the tonic.

The melodic riff of the A section is composed of a repeated minor third interval followed by a major third interval and then a repeated note. Harmonic movement is largely in an ascending [circle of fourths], or with descending chromatic substitutions, but there is also movement between thirds or between major and minor seventh chords. Minor seventh chords are often played in first inversion in this tune, and may therefore be thought of and notated as 6 chords of the relative major.

Rhythmically "Moonglow" is in 4/4 time. It is a foxtrot typically played at a slow tempo, although some performers, notably Art Tatum, have played it faster. The rhythm is syncopated. Jazz players will usually swing the eighth notes.

History of Recordings

"Moonglow" was first recorded by Joe Venuti and his Orchestra in 1933, with later recordings by Ethel Waters and Benny Goodman and his Orchestra in 1934, and has since become a jazz standard, performed and recorded numerous times by a wide array of musical talents.

In the 1950s a medley of this song and George Dunning's "Theme from Picnic" became quite popular, especially in instrumental recordings by Morris Stoloff, as well as by George Cates and his Orchestra. Dunning wrote the film's theme to counterpoint "Moonglow."

Les Deux Love Orchestra recorded a new version of the Artie Shaw arrangement of "Moonglow." It appears on their album, "King Kong." (2008)

Movie Soundtracks

A recording of "Moonglow" by the Benny Goodman Quartet is part of the soundtrack to the movie The Aviator. and the movie The Fabulous Baker Boys[2][3]

References

  1. ^ "Moonglow". jazzstandards.com. http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-1/moonglow.htm. 
  2. ^ "Soundtrack". IMDb. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338751/soundtrack. 
  3. ^ "Soundtrack". IMDb. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097322/soundtrack. 

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