A Study Of Gregory Porter's Approaches To Phrasing In "Liquid Siprit"

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to analyze Gregory Porter’s approach in the “ Liquid Album” which was released in 2013 and awarded as the best male vocal Grammy. Porter’s melodic phrases are smooth and tension tones can increase the engagment of the listeners and construct the movement of the song. Furthermore, the repeating phrases can create space and cause delaying the starting point on different beats. Most of the phrases are built with neighboring tones and he used such kind of tones to delay either at the beginning of the phrase or end of the phrase and created emotional feeling for the listeners. In creating variation phrases , using non-harmonic tones can produce smooth phrase and more engaging in jazz .

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