#21 LA COSA NELLA MUSICA

Fonte: Knock

Tra i ritmi musicali piu` famosi ce n’è uno soprannominato:

“shave-and-a-haircut, two bits”, talvolta indicato come il bussare alla porta “segreto”.

Chi non lo ha eseguito almeno una volta?

"shave-and-a-haircut" da wikipedia

 

Il primo uso documentato di questo ritmo scherzoso è del 1899 in una registrazione di Charles Hale, “At a Darktown Cakewalk”. Nel 1914, al ritmo sono state aggiunte parole nella canzone “Bum-Diddle-De-Um-Bum, That’s It!” di Jimmie Monaco and Joe McCarthy. Nel 1939 la stessa frase musicale è stata usata in “Shave and a Haircut-Shampoo”, una canzone di Dan Shapiro, Lester Lee e Milton Berle. Nel tempo la parola Shampoo e’ diventata two bits...

Molti musicisti hanno utilizzato questo ritmo, tra cui anche Leonard Berstein, in West Side Story,  nella canzone “Gee,Officer Krumpke” (cfr. video a 4' 11").

 

Infine, rimanendo in tema di canzoni, piuttosto che di ritmi musicali, chi non ricorda "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" di Bob Dylan ( ed il film "Pat Garrett e Billy the Kid")?

Troveremo un battocchio alla porta del Paradiso?

"Knockin' On Heaven's Door": 

Mama take this badge from me
I can't use it anymore
It's getting dark too dark to see
Feels like I'm knockin' on heaven's door

Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door
Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door
Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door
Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door, eh yeah

Mama put my guns in the ground
I can't shoot them anymore
That cold black cloud is comin' down
Feels like I'm knockin' on heaven's door

Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door
Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door
Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door
Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door

Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door
Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door
Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door
Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door
Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door
Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door

Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door
Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door
Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door
Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door
Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door
Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door, wow oh yeah.

Biografia: Daniel J. Levitin, "This is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession", 2006, Penguin.