February 2, 1912 New York City, New York January 5 , 1997New York City, New York Burton Lane, (born Feb. 2, 1912, New York, N.Y. died Jan . 5 , 1997New York) American composer who, created melodies for musical stage shows and motion pictures for more than 50 years.
Recently many younger musicians have returned to this area, but the trumpeter Randy Sandke has gone to it in a rather formalized way, figuring out how to create melody from chords that lie outside normal tonality.
The night wasn't about the veterans backing the trumpeters, but several of Ms. Rosnes's solos were rhythmically playful and impressively organized, and Mr. Drummond played a remarkably sensitive, segmented improvisation on Mr. Hubbard's "Intrepid Fox," creating melody with drums and cymbals.
But he also found stimulation in the very new: hearing Pierre Boulez's Le marteau sans maître for the first time, he discovered a world of sonic exoticism, as well as the revelation that it was possible to create melody, line and febrile expression in modernist music.
In the world of symbol and myth that music can't help but create, melody lies behind us, and calls us, as John's beautiful song "Julia" does, to our memory of a better past, or what we want to think was one.
Janáček precisely transcribed the intonations and rhythms of the spoken Czech language to create melodies to be sung and played.
Both create melodies that draw us in, and then offer up lyrics that tell a story and make us want to stay.
I think the force of her delivery and the way she creates melodies and harmonies on top of beats is pretty astonishing.
This original row of tones may appear at original pitch or transposed to any other pitch; it may be inverted (played upside down, with rising intervals changed to descending ones and vice versa) or presented backward; it may be used to create melodies or harmonies or combinations of both; it may be fragmented.
The World Science Festival panel in the Great Hall at Cooper Union focused mostly on improvised music, especially the intuitive art of jazz, trying to address the question of what is actually happening when a musician spontaneously creates melodies, harmonies and rhythms that have never been played before.
