Re: Songs with scale changes

Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 22:37:51 +0100
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None of the songs mentioned below have 'scale changes'. 'Guzar jaaye din'
is in F-minor and stays in F-Minor, only the chord progression is a little
unusual or should I say quite interesting.
Please don't jump into the bandwagon of identifying songs with 'scale
changes' without understanding the grammer of it. A 'scale' or a 'key' has a
certain number of 'flat's or 'sharps' and that is fixed for a particular
key. So, if a song is composed in the key of 1-flat (i.e. the key of F) then
it remains in this key until the composer changes to another key with a
different number of 'flats' or 'sharps'. The staff-notation identifies that
in its 'signature'. This technique is common in the western music but has
been very rare in the Hindi Film music.
Salil did compose a few songs with key-changes in Bengali such as 'Shono
Kono akdin' sung by Hemant. It starts in the key of Ab-Major, and changes
to A-Major in the second part and then again to Bb-Major in the third part.
His other Bengali song which he himself sang 'Ei Roko' also has three
key-changes. His most remarkable composition in Bengali 'Runner' also sung
by Hemant has 6 key changes and he explains it beautifully in a lecture on
"Composition and harmony" which he gave at the Rabindra-Bharati University
in Calcutta a few years before his death.
In Hindi, Asha also did a superb job with 'Hai jawaan dil ke mere armaan'.
This is the hindi version of 'Ei Roko' and is one of Salil's rare hindi film
songs in the film "Room no. 203" whcih has three key-changes.
Gautam Choudhury
"Kamall Mustafa" <email-address-deleted> wrote in message
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> Hi friends,
>
> Just remembered a few more songs with scale change, this time by Salil
Chowdhury :
>
> 1. Guzar Jaaye Din (Annadata)
> 2. Koi Hota Jisko (Mere Apne)
> 3. Zindagi Kaisi Hain Paheli (Anand)
>
> Re,
> Kamall
>
>
> email-address-deleted (Kamall Mustafa) wrote in message
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> > Hello All,
> >
> > A couple of songs that come to my mind are :
> >
> > 1. Ek Raasta Hain Zindagi - Kaala Patthar - Rajesh Roshan
> >
> > The scale changes at "Ye Kadam Kisi Mukaam Pe.."
> >
> > 2. Do Lafzo Ki Hain Dil Ki Kahani - Great Gambler - R.D.Burman
> >
> > The scale changes in the interlude.
> >
> > Re,
> > Kamall
> > groups.yahoo.com/group/sangeet_ke_sitarey
> > groups.yahoo.com/group/shankarjaikishan
> >
> >
> > email-address-deleted (Pradeep) wrote in message
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> > > email-address-deleted (TGuru) wrote in message
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> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > Everybody goes ga-ga over those 'oh-so-cute' scale changes of RD.
Can
> > > > somebody give few examples of the songs where the scale change has
> > > > been employed, (also the place in the song).
> > > >
> > > > It will help me (and may be few others) to understand and thus
> > > > appreciate the songs more.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > tks