EPISODE · Jun 30, 2024 · 19 MIN
EP 3: Colourful Jazz From Emma Rawicz, Up and Coming British Saxophonist
from Return to Vinyls · host David Husom
Color may not be the first thing you think of with music. But it is there hiding in plain site. Western music is based on the Chromatic Scale from the Greek, chrôma, meaning color. Think of a piano with white and black keys. If you follow through both the white and black keys (the flats and sharps) you get 12 equal pitches — that is the Chromatic Scale. The term Chromatic goes back to the Greeks and was refined in the Renaissance. Or the notion of color in music can be used in the sense that visual colors, like music, consists of a spectrum. Also in music the term timbre, referring to the quality of sound as opposed to its tone or strength, can also be referred to as "tone color." But what if color itself is a major motivator for a musician. Up and coming British jazz saxophonist Emma Rawicz is such a musician.
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Color may not be the first thing you think of with music. But it is there hiding in plain site. Western music is based on the Chromatic Scale from the Greek, chrôma, meaning color. Think of a piano with white and black keys. If you follow through both the white and black keys (the flats and sharps) you get 12 equal pitches — that is the Chromatic Scale. The term Chromatic goes back to the Greeks and was refined in the Renaissance. Or the notion of color in music can be used in the sense that visual colors, like music, consists of a spectrum. Also in music the term timbre, referring to the quality of sound as opposed to its tone or strength, can also be referred to as "tone color." But what if color itself is a major motivator for a musician. Up and coming British jazz saxophonist Emma Rawicz is such a musician.
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