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Song «Maria» von Jim Bryant.
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Veröffentlichungsdaten: 1961 09 05, 1992 11 24 (Reed.)
Label: Columbia Masterworks OS 2070, Sony Masterworks SK 48211
Songwriter Leonard Bernstein & Stephen Sondheim
Produktion: Didier Deutsch
Genre: Akademica - Intermediale-Musik - Musical
Annotationen
Man denkt in der Melodie von «I just met a girl named Maria» oft und fälschlicherweise an einen Oktavsprung. Die Begründung, dass keiner vorliegt: «What changes is the sense of tonality right at the point of the note sung on "-ri-" of the "Maria" in . The sense of tonal center is restless in this song; deliberately so. That "-ri-" note, when first sung in the "Maria" _before_ "I just met..." etc (in the passage which everyone thinks of as the beginning of the song, even though it isn't), is heard as a note foreign to the tonal context into which it's been introduced (which context itself is transitional) and helps compel that context forward to where the tonal center feels like it lands somewhere with some solidity (thiough it doesn't stay there for long). At that point the newly arrived context gives the weird note a familar identity, and you think "aha! That's what it is, the seventh degree in Major!" That makes it (temporarily) the major seventh note, but not a major seventh interval by which it had first been ushered into the mix.» (Over the Rainbow – Octave leap).
Personen und Querverweise
Jim Bryant
Leonard Bernstein
Stephen Sondheim
Didier Deutsch
Lyrics
Maria... The most beautiful sound I ever heard: Maria, Maria, Maria, Maria . . . All the beautiful sounds of the world in a single word . . Maria, Maria, Maria, Maria . . . Maria! I've just met a girl named Maria, And suddenly that name Will never be the same To me. Maria! I've just kissed a girl named Maria, And suddenly I've found How wonderful a sound Can be! Maria! Say it loud and there's music playing, Say it soft and it's almost like praying. Maria, I'll never stop saying Maria! The most beautiful sound I ever heard. Maria.