His hit "The Jitterbug Waltz" is written in the key of E-flat major in the style of the great classical composers
I'm just wondering about this statement. I've never seen or heard anything to the effect that Waller chose the key for a "classical" association - Eb is just a key, and not a particularly "difficult" one, and plenty of non-classical music has been written in Eb. And "the great classical composers" wrote in many keys, often in the "simple" ones like C, D, and G, lol.
Also, Waller first recorded the song on a Hammond organ, which certainly doesn't have any obvious "classical" associations in timbre.
Was this just something postulated by Mr. Horning in the review, or perhaps by the production's musical director or director in the program? Or is there something somewhere that actually says that a so-called "classical" key was really Waller's intention? |
