2015. 11. 27: Summer Time 1절 외다

아침에 2년여 전에 배웠던 Summer Time을 1절을 외웠다.
기본적으로 12마디의 Blues곡으로 2절은 1절의 변형이고, 3절은 애드립으로 연주하도록 강의에서 배웠던 G. Gershwin의 원곡에서 약간 변형된 Bm곡의 1절.
아침에 외고, 간단히 집에서 나오기 전에 색소폰으로 불어보니 별 문제가 없다.

이미 배우고 연습했던 단순한 구조의 곡이라 외는데 아주 쉬웠다.
이제 가사를 외우고 곡조와 연관시켜야겠다.

아래에 Wikidepea에 나와있는 가사와 평이 있다.

Summertime,
An’ the livin' is easy
Fish are jumpin'
An’ the cotton is high.

Oh yo’ daddy's rich
An’ yo’ mamma's good lookin'
So hush little baby
Don' yo’ cry.

One of these mornin’s
You're goin’ to rise up singin’
Then you'll spread yo’ wings
An’ you'll take the sky.

But till that mornin’
There's a-nothin’ can harm you
With daddy an’ mammy standin’ by.

Repeat first two verses

Heyward’s inspiration for the lyrics was the southern folk spiritual-lullaby All My Trials, of which he had Clara sing a snippet in his play Porgy.^[9][10] The lyrics have been highly praised by Stephen Sondheim. Writing of the opening line, he says

That "and" is worth a great deal of attention. I would write "Summertime when" but that "and" sets up a tone, a whole poetic tone, not to mention a whole kind of diction that is going to be used in the play; an informal, uneducated diction and a stream of consciousness, as in many of the songs like "My Man's Gone Now". It's the exact right word, and that word is worth its weight in gold. "Summertime when the livin' is easy" is a boring line compared to "Summertime and". The choices of "ands" [and] "buts" become almost traumatic as you are writing a lyric – or should, anyway – because each one weighs so much.^[11]