Teach Yourself Jazz - online guidebook

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	MODERN TRENDS	87
	Writing two quite different keys on top of each other is another peculiar effect: here, for a very simple example, is the opening of Mozart's C Major sonata all ship-shape except that its right hand has skidded up to F sharp: Example 30
	Such examples of bitonality occur, for instance, all over the early works of Darius Milhaud; they can be used to make a glorious 'purple patch' in the middle of normal harmonic progressions. These, then, are some of the possibilities that were open to* exploration. The story of progressive jazz is largely a tale of men who had a conservatoire training in music and who wanted to apply their knowledge of musical theory to widen the language of jazz. For those interested in the further study of modern jazz harmony, a comprehensive account of it may be found in "Progressive Jazz" by Malcolm Rayment (Cosmo Music Co., Ltd., 36-38 Dean Street, London, W.L Price 5/-).
	Mlnton's—the Beginning of Bop As we said at the outset of the chapter, these