Trey's Senior Thesis PDF

[Stecks]

Anyone else take a look at it?  Has some really interesting stuff.  He talks about his "cut & paste" process, for back of a better description, the thematic elements of the Gamehendge story, stylistic elements and song structures, as well as some theory.  What I found most interesting is the notation examples included in the end.  I've always wondered what is in his head when he uses the tricks he has amassed in his terrific arsenal, and how he uses these tools that he has acquired in his employ.   Here's a few: 

Example 1:  Lizards... this is the only one to include bass clef


Ex 6:   Forbin... Minor porgression using b9, b5, mM7.. switch minor for major chords, use sounds of 2 major chords a third apart more than once... One to major third progression, bluegrassy


Ex7:  Forbin final section, diatonic progression Trey picked up in Ireland - walks down diatonically to Amaj though a ii-V-I progression, but instead of ending on tonic, it goes a step further and resolves on C#min and rests (the minor third of A major)


Example 8:  Mockingbird, single line melody in straight 8th notes, 6/8 waltz... Idea was Flight of the Bumblebee.  I always figured that was the inspiration.

[Heady Jam Fan]

Thats awesome.
I'm assuming theres annotation that goes along with these?

[No Nice Guy]

Thats awesome.
I'm assuming theres annotation that goes along with these?

You can download the .pdf of the whole thing here:

https://mega.co.nz/#!uJlGTCSI!D2ufEUTWQ5uVBwZFQXIgahtZBsQGNiaA37y9LUW8CBI

Found here:

http://forum.phish.net/thread.php?thread=1375266187

[Heady Jam Fan]

Thats awesome.
I'm assuming theres annotation that goes along with these?

You can download the .pdf of the whole thing here:

https://mega.co.nz/#!uJlGTCSI!D2ufEUTWQ5uVBwZFQXIgahtZBsQGNiaA37y9LUW8CBI

Found here:

http://forum.phish.net/thread.php?thread=1375266187

Sweet - thanks, but I think the link is broke. Maybe I'll search for the PDF later this week.

[Stecks]

http://download779.mediafire.com/3fpdh59jblbg/lb1vp35p8s1c6bg/TMWSIY_Trey_Anastasio_1988_Senior_Thesis.pdf

Link

Its really an interesting read!

[Lephty]

Super-interesting to read about his thought process when he was composing some of these things.