“Telling a Story”: Three Scat Solos by Ella Fitzgerald
Date Issued
2009
Date
2009
Author(s)
Wang, Yi-ru
Abstract
The goal of this research is to explore the scat singing strategies employed by Ella Fitzgerald on “Flying Home” (October 4, 1945), “Oh! Lady, be Good!” (March 19, 1947), and “How High the Moon” (December 20, 1947). Since the metaphor of “telling a story” has often been used by many jazz soloists either for describing their own improvisational process or to judge a solo to be good or bad, thus in this thesis, ideas borrowed from the field of literature in terms of “plot” and “characters” will be utilized when examining these three representative solos of Fitzgerald’s, in order to uncover how Fitzgerald “tells” coherent and individual “stories” by creating and developing her “characters” and “plots.”
Subjects
Ella Fitzgerald
jazz signing
vocal improvisation
scat singing
telling a story
plot
characters
metaphor.
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