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81-413: "There is nothing like a Grateful Dead concert" was a fan epithet, coined by Dead family member and building manager Willy Legate. In performance, the Dead emphasized musical improvisation and jamming , varying their set lists nightly. To Deadheads , their music was best appreciated in person, at live concerts. Furthermore, Dead shows were known for their positive, exuberant and celebratory atmosphere as

162-594: A cantus firmus (a practice found both in church music and in popular dance music) constituted a part of every musician's education, and is regarded as the most important kind of unwritten music before the Baroque period. Following the invention of music printing at the beginning of the sixteenth century, there is more detailed documentation of improvisational practice, in the form of published instruction manuals, mainly in Italy. In addition to improvising counterpoint over

243-598: A midnight movie . Because the Grateful Dead had returned to touring by the time the film was released, its original purpose had been lost. Not all band members were fond of the film as the cost and debt were a sticking point, and it didn't represent their current incarnation; by 1977, the Dead had stopped performing with Ned Lagin, regained their second drummer, built a scaled-down sound system, and were performing two new albums' worth of songs. Drummer Bill Kreutzmann had

324-534: A timecode . The system is defined by the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers in the SMPTE 12M specification. SMPTE revised the standard in 2008, turning it into a two-part document: SMPTE 12M-1 and SMPTE 12M-2, including new explanations and clarifications. Timecodes are added to film , video or audio material, and have also been adapted to synchronize music and theatrical production . They provide

405-406: A Deadhead in the mid-1970s. The film also includes interviews with members of the Dead and vintage footage from their colorful history and early days in the band. The film opens with a uniquely Grateful Dead animated sequence, featuring the "Uncle Sam skeleton". The psychedelic animation was created by Gary Gutierrez , using techniques that he developed specifically for the project. Stanley Mouse did

486-475: A cantus firmus, singers and instrumentalists improvised melodies over ostinato chord patterns, made elaborate embellishments of melodic lines, and invented music extemporaneously without any predetermined schemata. Keyboard players likewise performed extempore, freely formed pieces. The kinds of improvisation practised during the Renaissance—principally either the embellishing of an existing part or

567-438: A compromise introduced when color NTSC video was invented. The NTSC designers wanted to retain compatibility with existing monochrome televisions. To minimize subcarrier visibility on a monochrome receiver it was necessary to make the color subcarrier an odd multiple of half the line scan frequency; the multiple originally chosen was 495. With a 30 Hz frame rate the line scan frequency is (30 × 525) = 15750 Hz. So

648-399: A harmonic sketch called the figured bass . The process of improvisation was called realization . According to Encyclopædia Britannica , the "monodic textures that originated about 1600 ... were ready-made, indeed in large measure intended, for improvisational enhancement, not only of the treble parts but also, almost by definition, of the bass, which was figured to suggest no more than

729-414: A minimal chordal outline." Improvised accompaniment over a figured bass was a common practice during the Baroque era, and to some extent the following periods. Improvisation remains a feature of organ playing in some church services and are regularly also performed at concerts. Dieterich Buxtehude and Johann Sebastian Bach were regarded in the Baroque period as highly skilled organ improvisers. During

810-513: A more positive reaction, saying "Producing that thing really consumed Jerry’s time, on a day-to-day basis, throughout the hiatus. ... What are you going to do in that situation? Say, 'Okay, you can only have this much money and if the thing’s not complete, who cares, wrap it up?' Or are you going to find more money for it and let it become a really worthy project that your band leader and good friend really believes in?... as Jerry had known all along, it captured and defined our identity, since it had

891-482: A nominal frame rate of 29.97 frame/s was longer than an hour of wall-clock time by 3.6 seconds (for 29.97 non-drop timecode of 01:00:00:00 drop-frame timecode is 01:00:03;18 and for non-drop 00:59:56:12 drop-frame is 01:00:00;00), leading to an error of almost a minute and a half over a day. To correct this, drop-frame SMPTE timecode was invented. In spite of what the name implies, no video frames are dropped or skipped when using drop-frame timecode. Rather, some of

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972-584: A pedagogical approach. A raga is one of the melodic modes used in Indian classical music . Joep Bor of the Rotterdam Conservatory of Music has defined Raga as "tonal framework for composition and improvisation". Nazir Jairazbhoy , chairman of UCLA's department of ethnomusicology , characterized ragas as separated by scale, line of ascent and descent, transilience , emphasized notes and register, and intonation and ornaments. A raga uses

1053-455: A pre-show with dozens of still photos of the band backed by audio of " Playing in the Band ", as well as contemporary interviews with Garcia and rhythm guitarist Bob Weir . Due to popular demand, a second screening was held on May 5, 2011. The Grateful Dead Movie was screened on April 20, 2017 for the annual meetup at the movies The Grateful Dead Movie contains full or partial performances of

1134-519: A progression of chords, which performers are to use as the basis for their improvisation. Handel and Bach frequently improvised on the harpsichord or pipe organ . In the Baroque era, performers improvised ornaments , and basso continuo keyboard players improvised chord voicings based on figured bass notation. However, in the 20th and early 21st century, as common practice Western art music performance became institutionalized in symphony orchestras, opera houses and ballets, improvisation has played

1215-566: A raga as "a melodic framework for improvisation and composition". Although melodic improvisation was an important factor in European music from the earliest times, the first detailed information on improvisation technique appears in ninth-century treatises instructing singers on how to add another melody to a pre-existent liturgical chant, in a style called organum . Throughout the Middle Ages and Renaissance, improvised counterpoint over

1296-509: A raga can be written down in the form of a scale (in some cases differing in ascent and descent). By using only these notes, by emphasizing certain degrees of the scale, and by going from note to note in ways characteristic to the raga, the performer sets out to create a mood or atmosphere (rasa) that is unique to the raga in question. There are several hundred ragas in present use, and thousands are possible in theory." Alapa (Sanskrit: "conversation") are "improvised melody structures that reveal

1377-403: A raga, also spelled rag (in northern India) or ragam (in southern India), (from Sanskrit, meaning "colour" or "passion"), in the classical music of India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan, is "a melodic framework for improvisation and composition. A raga is based on a scale with a given set of notes, a typical order in which they appear in melodies, and characteristic musical motifs. The basic components of

1458-400: A section known as jor, which uses a rhythmic pulse though no tala (metric cycle). The performer of the alapa gradually introduces the essential notes and melodic turns of the raga to be performed. Only when the soloist is satisfied that he has set forth the full range of melodic possibilities of the raga and has established its unique mood and personality will he proceed, without interruption, to

1539-606: A series of five or more musical notes upon which a melody is constructed. However, the way the notes are approached and rendered in musical phrases and the mood they convey are more important in defining a raga than the notes themselves. In the Indian musical tradition, rāgas are associated with different times of the day, or with seasons. Indian classical music is always set in a rāga. Non-classical music such as popular Indian film songs and ghazals sometimes use rāgas in their compositions. According to Encyclopædia Britannica ,

1620-447: A smaller role. At the same time, some contemporary composers from the 20th and 21st century have increasingly included improvisation in their creative work. In Indian classical music , improvisation is a core component and an essential criterion of performances. In Indian , Afghan , Pakistani , and Bangladeshi classical music, raga is the "tonal framework for composition and improvisation". The Encyclopædia Britannica defines

1701-492: A time reference for editing, synchronization and identification. Timecode is a form of media metadata . The invention of timecode made modern videotape editing possible and led eventually to the creation of non-linear editing systems . SMPTE timecode is presented in hour:minute:second:frame format and is typically represented in 32 bits using binary-coded decimal . There are also drop-frame and color framing flags and three extra binary group flag bits used for defining

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1782-414: Is a "performance given extempore without planning or preparation". Another definition is to "play or sing (music) extemporaneously, by inventing variations on a melody or creating new melodies, rhythms and harmonies". Encyclopædia Britannica defines it as "the extemporaneous composition or free performance of a musical passage, usually in a manner conforming to certain stylistic norms but unfettered by

1863-463: Is implicit, known from the rate of arrival of the timecode from the medium. It may also be specified in other metadata encoded in the medium. The interpretation of several bits, including the color framing and drop frame bits, depends on the underlying data rate. In particular, the drop frame bit is only valid for 29.97 and 30 frame/sec. Timecodes are generated as a continuous stream of sequential data values. In some applications wall-clock time

1944-568: Is often used to indicate field 1 of the color frame so that editing equipment can make sure to edit only on appropriate color frame sequence boundaries in order to prevent picture corruption. In television studio operations, longitudinal timecode is generated by the studio master sync generator and distributed from a central point. Central sync generators usually derive their timing from an atomic clock , using either network time or GPS . Studios usually operate multiple clocks and automatically switch over if one fails. Longitudinal SMPTE timecode

2025-401: Is used, in others the time encoded is a notional time with more arbitrary reference. After making a series of recordings, or after crude editing, recorded timecodes may consist of discontinuous segments. In general, it is not possible to know the linear timecode ( LTC ) of the current frame until the frame has already gone by, by which time it is too late to make an edit. Practical systems watch

2106-402: Is widely acknowledged. They offer a clear value as documentation of performances despite their perceived limitations. With these available, generations of jazz musicians are able to implicate styles and influences in their performed new improvisations. Many varied scales and their modes can be used in improvisation. They are often not written down in the process, but they help musicians practice

2187-610: Is widely used to synchronize music. A frame rate of 30 frame/s is often used for audio in America, Japan, and other countries that rely on a 60 Hz mains frequency and use the NTSC television standard. The European Broadcasting Union standard frame rate of 25 frame/s is used throughout Europe, Australia and wherever the mains frequency is 50 Hz and the PAL or SECAM television standards are used. Timecode may be attached to

2268-521: The Musica enchiriadis (ninth century), indicate that added parts were improvised for centuries before the first notated examples. However, it was only in the fifteenth century that theorists began making a hard distinction between improvised and written music. Some classical music forms contained sections for improvisation, such as the cadenza in solo concertos , or the preludes to some keyboard suites by Bach and Handel, which consist of elaborations of

2349-520: The Oberheim polyphonic synthesizer (1975) and the ubiquitous Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 (1978). Due to myriad recording and mixing problems that plagued the engagement, many of his parts were not recorded; this was exacerbated by his preference for playing through the powerful vocal system (considered to be "the best part of the entire Wall of Sound PA"), often resulting in the group's sound crew neglecting to switch between his quadrophonic input and

2430-1700: The Scratch Orchestra in England; Musica Elettronica Viva in Italy; Lukas Foss Improvisation Chamber Ensemble at the University of California, Los Angeles; Larry Austin 's New Music Ensemble at the University of California, Davis; the ONCE Group at Ann Arbor; the Sonic Arts Group; and Sonics , the latter three funding themselves through concerts, tours, and grants. Significant pieces include Foss Time Cycles (1960) and Echoi (1963). Other composers working with improvisation include Richard Barrett , Benjamin Boretz , Pierre Boulez , Joseph Brent , Sylvano Bussotti , Cornelius Cardew , Jani Christou , Douglas J. Cuomo , Alvin Curran , Stuart Dempster , Hugh Davies , Karlheinz Essl , Mohammed Fairouz , Rolf Gehlhaar , Vinko Globokar , Richard Grayson , Hans-Joachim Hespos , Barton McLean , Priscilla McLean , Stephen Nachmanovitch , Pauline Oliveros , Henri Pousseur , Todd Reynolds , Terry Riley , Frederic Rzewski , Saman Samadi , William O. Smith , Manfred Stahnke , Karlheinz Stockhausen , Tōru Takemitsu , Richard Teitelbaum , Vangelis , Michael Vetter , Christian Wolff , Iannis Xenakis , Yitzhak Yedid , La Monte Young , Frank Zappa , Hans Zender , and John Zorn . British and American psychedelic rock acts of

2511-557: The Western art music tradition, including the Medieval , Renaissance , Baroque , Classical , and Romantic periods, improvisation was a valued skill. J. S. Bach , Handel , Mozart , Beethoven , Chopin , Liszt , and many other famous composers and musicians were known especially for their improvisational skills. Improvisation might have played an important role in the monophonic period. The earliest treatises on polyphony , such as

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2592-469: The timecodes are dropped. In order to make an hour of timecode match an hour on the clock, drop-frame timecode skips frame numbers 0 and 1 of the first second of every minute, except when the number of minutes is divisible by ten. This causes timecode to skip 18 frames each ten minutes (18,000 frames @ 30 frame/s) and almost perfectly compensates for the difference in rate (but still accumulates 1 frame every 9 hours 15 minutes). For example,

2673-483: The 1960s and 1970s used improvisations to express themselves in a musical language. The American Rock band Grateful Dead based their career around improvised live performances, meaning that no two shows ever sounded the same. Improvisation was a key part of Pink Floyd 's music from 1967 to 1972. Another progressive rock band that implemented improvisation was King Crimson , whose live performances consisted of many improvisational pieces. The improvisation died down in

2754-503: The 1980s, but saw a resurgence in the 1990s. In the realm of silent film -music performance, there were musicians ( theatre organ players and piano players) whose improvised performances accompanying these film has been recognized as exceptional by critics, scholars, and audiences alike. Neil Brand was a composer who also performed improvisationally. Brand, along with Guenter A. Buchwald, Philip Carli, Stephen Horne, Donald Sosin, John Sweeney , and Gabriel Thibaudeau, all performed at

2835-841: The 20th century, some musicians known as great improvisers such as Marcel Dupré , Pierre Cochereau and Pierre Pincemaille continued this form of music, in the tradition of the French organ school . Maurice Duruflé , a great improviser himself, transcribed improvisations by Louis Vierne and Charles Tournemire . Olivier Latry later wrote his improvisations as compositions, for example Salve Regina . Classical music departs from baroque style in that sometimes several voices may move together as chords involving both hands, to form brief phrases without any passing tones. Though such motifs were used sparingly by Mozart, they were taken up much more liberally by Beethoven and Schubert. Such chords also appeared to some extent in baroque keyboard music, such as

2916-686: The 3rd movement theme in Bach's Italian Concerto . But at that time such a chord often appeared only in one clef at a time, (or one hand on the keyboard) and did not form the independent phrases found more in later music. Adorno mentions this movement of the Italian Concerto as a more flexible, improvisatory form, in comparison to Mozart, suggesting the gradual diminishment of improvisation well before its decline became obvious. The introductory gesture of tonic, subdominant, dominant, tonic , however, much like its baroque form, continues to appear at

2997-415: The Dead's Blues for Allah and Steal Your Face . Rather than make dozens of prints of the film and distribute it through normal outlets, the movie was toured city-to-city, to control quality. According to Lesh, "Wishing to present the movie as a concert experience, Jerry enlisted one of our concert promoters to rent theaters (a process called “four-walling”) and bring in special sound systems to enhance

3078-576: The Dead, but I wasn’t a Deadhead. I wasn’t sure I even knew what they were talking about ... and it did happen on the third night or the fourth night. ... At one point we were going to call it The Grateful Dead: Warts and All , but that’s not what happened. It became a movie about a series of concerts and the crew and the Deadheads. We agreed that this should be about the Grateful Dead experience." When it became apparent that Garcia wanted to oversee all aspects of post-production , Gast excused himself from

3159-565: The Make It Up Club (held every Tuesday evening at Bar Open on Brunswick Street, Melbourne ) has been presenting a weekly concert series dedicated to promoting avant-garde improvised music and sound performance of the highest conceptual and performative standards (regardless of idiom, genre, or instrumentation). The Make It Up Club has become an institution in Australian improvised music and consistently features artists from all over

3240-532: The annual conference on silent film in Pordenone , Italy , Le Giornate del Cinema Muto . In improvising for silent film, performers have to play music that matches the mood, style and pacing of the films they accompany. In some cases, musicians had to accompany films at first sight , without preparation. Improvisers needed to know a wide range of musical styles and have the stamina to play for sequences of films which occasionally ran over three hours. In addition to

3321-502: The ascending sequence of the timecode and infer the time of the current frame from that. As timecodes in analog systems are prone to bit-errors and drop-outs, most timecode processing devices check for internal consistency in the sequence of timecode values and use simple error correction schemes to correct for short error bursts. Thus, a boundary between discontinuous timecode ranges cannot be determined exactly until several subsequent frames have passed. Drop-frame timecode originates from

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3402-402: The band and the audience interacted, fostering a special environment of musical celebration. Capturing this phenomenon on film was the paradoxical goal of The Grateful Dead Movie . To document the Grateful Dead experience, the film showcases the fans more than was usual in a concert movie at the time. They are shown enjoying the show, discussing the music and the band, and what it was like to be

3483-524: The band was joined by frequent guest keyboardist Ned Lagin . In contrast to Keith Godchaux (a traditionalist who favored acoustic grand pianos and the Fender Rhodes ), Lagin's array of instruments included a Rhodes, the ARP Odyssey and an Interdata 716-controlled E-mu Systems modular polyphonic synthesizer; technology in the latter instrument would eventually be licensed and appropriated for

3564-537: The band's own record label and requiring the accumulation of more debt. To cover costs the band took out loans, signed a distribution deal with United Artist Records and self-released a string of albums: Robert Hunter 's Tiger Rose ; Garcia's Reflections ; the Godchauxs' Keith & Donna ; Lesh & Lagin's Seastones ; Old & In the Way ( David Grisman and Peter Rowan 's bluegrass band with Garcia); and

3645-432: The beginning how much mind-numbing repetitive detail he would have to wade through just to storyboard the film’s structure; the editing ended up taking more than two years, in the process scarfing down hundreds of thousands of dollars we didn’t have." The opening animation sequence cost approximately as much as the rest of the movie, which together brought the Grateful Dead organization to the brink of bankruptcy, threatening

3726-527: The beginning of high-classical and romantic piano pieces (and much other music) as in Haydn's Piano Sonata Hob. XVI/52 and Beethoven's Sonata No. 24, Op. 78 . Beethoven and Mozart cultivated mood markings such as con amore , appassionato , cantabile , and expressivo . In fact, it is perhaps because improvisation is spontaneous that it is akin to the communication of love. Beethoven and Mozart left excellent examples of what their improvisations were like, in

3807-406: The chord progression exactly, he may "skim over" the progression and simply decorate with notes from the key of the piece (parent musical scale ), or he may fashion his own voice-leading , using his intuition and listening experience, which may clash at some points with the chords the rhythm section is playing. With the notable exception of liturgical improvisation on the organ, the first half of

3888-497: The color subcarrier frequency, and thus both the line scan frequency and the frame rate, by 0.1% instead. Thus the NTSC color subcarrier ended up as 3.579 54  MHz ( ⁠ 315 / 88 ⁠  MHz), the line scan frequency as 15. 734265  kHz ( ⁠ 9 / 572 ⁠  MHz) and the frame rate 29. 970029  Hz ( ⁠ 30 / 1.001 ⁠  Hz). The altered frame rate meant that an hour of timecode at

3969-513: The concerts. ( See also From the Mars Hotel and Beyond Description for additional tracks from the dates.) The restored version of The Grateful Dead Movie was screened as a one-night-only event, in approximately 540 theaters throughout the U.S., April 20 , 2011. It was broadcast to the theaters via Dish Network for the first annual Grateful Dead Meet-Up at the Movies , and featured

4050-483: The creation of an entirely new part or parts—continued into the early Baroque, though important modifications were introduced. Ornamentation began to be brought more under the control of composers, in some cases by writing out embellishments, and more broadly by introducing symbols or abbreviations for certain ornamental patterns. Two of the earliest important sources for vocal ornamentation of this sort are Giovanni Battista Bovicelli's Regole, passaggi di musica (1594), and

4131-586: The following songs: The DVD bonus disc includes the following full performances: Song notes Musical improvisation Musical improvisation (also known as musical extemporization ) is the creative activity of immediate ("in the moment") musical composition , which combines performance with communication of emotions and instrumental technique as well as spontaneous response to other musicians . Sometimes musical ideas in improvisation are spontaneous, but may be based on chord changes in classical music and many other kinds of music. One definition

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4212-499: The form of introductions to pieces, and links between pieces, continued to be a feature of keyboard concertising until the early 20th-century. Amongst those who practised such improvisation were Franz Liszt , Felix Mendelssohn , Anton Rubinstein , Paderewski , Percy Grainger and Pachmann . Improvisation in the area of art music seems to have declined with the growth of recording. After studying over 1,200 early Verdi recordings, Will Crutchfield concludes that "The solo cavatina

4293-432: The jazz idiom. A common view of what a jazz soloist does could be expressed thus: as the harmonies go by, he selects notes from each chord , out of which he fashions a melody . He is free to embellish by means of passing and neighbor tones, and he may add extensions to the chords, but at all times a good improviser must follow the changes . ... [However], a jazz musician really has several options: he may reflect

4374-425: The listener, and the physical space that the performance takes place in. Even if improvisation is also found outside of jazz, it may be that no other music relies so much on the art of "composing in the moment", demanding that every musician rise to a certain level of creativity that may put the performer in touch with his or her unconscious as well as conscious states. The educational use of improvised jazz recordings

4455-666: The metrically organized section of the piece. If a drummer is present, as is usual in formal concert, his first beats serve as a signal to the listener that the alapa is concluded." Machine improvisation uses computer algorithms to create improvisation on existing music materials. This is usually done by sophisticated recombination of musical phrases extracted from existing music, either live or pre-recorded. In order to achieve credible improvisation in particular style, machine improvisation uses machine learning and pattern matching algorithms to analyze existing musical examples. The resulting patterns are then used to create new variations "in

4536-402: The movie project, Phil Lesh and band sound man Owsley Stanley listened through the audio tapes to produce a soundtrack album. However, as both the movie project and the band's record label needed funding, the album release was pushed forward and Steal Your Face was released in conjunction with the band's return to touring, rather than as a movie tie-in or true soundtrack. Though compiled from

4617-471: The musical characteristics of a raga". "Alapa ordinarily constitutes the first section of the performance of a raga. Vocal or instrumental, it is accompanied by a drone (sustained-tone) instrument and often also by a melodic instrument that repeats the soloist's phrases after a lag of a few seconds. The principal portion of alapa is not metric but rhythmically free; in Hindustani music it moves gradually to

4698-455: The original aspect ratio of 1.85:1 preserved. It features three audio options: the original multi-channel theatrical mix, a new 5.1 multi-channel mix, or a new stereo mix. The first disc is the original film. The second disc contains bonus tracks from the concerts and several featurettes about the making of both the movie and the DVD, including then-recent interviews with Grateful Dead members. The DVD

4779-508: The performances, some pianists also taught master classes for those who wanted to develop their skill in improvising for films. When talkies – motion pictures with sound–were introduced, these talented improvising musicians had to find other jobs. In the 2010s, there are a small number of film societies which present vintage silent films , using live improvising musicians to accompany the film. Worldwide there are many venues dedicated to supporting live improvisation. In Melbourne since 1998,

4860-408: The preface to Giulio Caccini 's collection, Le nuove musiche (1601/2) Eighteenth-century manuals make it clear that performers on the flute, oboe, violin, and other melodic instruments were expected not only to ornament previously composed pieces, but also spontaneously to improvise preludes. The basso continuo (accompaniment) was mainly improvised, the composer usually providing no more than

4941-400: The prescriptive features of a specific musical text." Improvisation is often done within (or based on) a pre-existing harmonic framework or chord progression . Improvisation is a major part of some types of 20th-century music, such as blues , rock music , jazz , and jazz fusion , in which instrumental performers improvise solos, melody lines and accompaniment parts. Throughout the eras of

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5022-422: The project. Though unfamiliar with the band, Susan Crutcher was hired as an additional film editor (with Emily Craig as an assistant). Crutcher said "When I came on they had about 100,000 feet of film to sync up. That alone took five months. What [Gast] did was introduce the television concept of [multiple cameras for complete coverage], which was quite new then. He was hip enough to know about SMPTE timecode , which

5103-418: The same run of concerts as the film, it shares only two songs ("Casey Jones" & U.S. Blues"). An additional track from the album ("Sugaree") later appeared as a bonus on the DVD version of the movie. Following the release of the movie on DVD, The Grateful Dead Movie Soundtrack was compiled. The 5-CD box set mostly presents complete versions of songs that also appear in the film, plus 22 bonus tracks from

5184-439: The same venue two years later.) Manager Ron Rakow also sold the idea for a soundtrack album to United Artists Records . At the beginning of the second set of the final show on October 20, 1974, Mickey Hart joined the band on stage as a second drummer. Hart had been a member of the Dead from September 1967 to February 1971. This appearance would lead to his permanent return to the band in 1976. At various times during these shows,

5265-468: The sequence when frame counts are dropped: For each tenth minute While non-drop timecode is displayed with colons separating the digit pairs—"HH:MM:SS:FF"—drop-frame is usually represented with a semicolon (;) or period (.) as the divider between all the digit pairs— HH;MM;SS;FF , HH.MM.SS.FF —or just between the seconds and frames— HH:MM:SS;FF or HH:MM:SS.FF . Drop-frame timecode is typically abbreviated as DF and non-drop as NDF. A color framing bit

5346-418: The sets of variations and the sonatas which they published, and in their written out cadenzas (which illustrate what their improvisations would have sounded like). As a keyboard player, Mozart competed at least once in improvisation, with Muzio Clementi . Beethoven won many tough improvisatory battles over such rivals as Johann Nepomuk Hummel , Daniel Steibelt , and Joseph Woelfl . Extemporization, both in

5427-528: The sound quality. (This was before the era of universal multitrack movie sound)." "Every college dorm in America had at least one kid on every hall with a VHS copy on his shelf." – Bill Kreutzmann The movie was premiered June 1, 1977, at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City. After an initial multi-city tour, prints were made and the film occasionally appeared in theaters as

5508-452: The style" of the original music, developing a notion of stylistic reinjection. This is different from other improvisation methods with computers that use algorithmic composition to generate new music without performing analysis of existing music examples. SMPTE timecode SMPTE timecode ( / ˈ s ɪ m p t iː / or / ˈ s ɪ m t iː / ) is a set of cooperating standards to label individual frames of video or film with

5589-457: The subcarrier frequency multiple to 455 (thus increasing the beat frequency from approximately 600 kHz to approximately 920 kHz) and by making the beat frequency also equal to an odd multiple of half the line scan frequency. This latter change could have been achieved by raising the sound intercarrier by 0.1% to 4.5045 MHz, but the designers, concerned that this might cause problems with some existing receivers, decided instead to reduce

5670-411: The subcarrier frequency would have been ⁠ 495 / 2 ⁠  × 15750 = 3.898125 MHz. This was the subcarrier frequency originally chosen, but tests showed that on some monochrome receivers an interference pattern caused by the beat between the color subcarrier and the 4.5 MHz sound intercarrier could be seen. The visibility of this pattern could be greatly reduced by lowering

5751-474: The title art. By 1974, lead guitarist Jerry Garcia wanted to stop touring and take a break from performing with the Grateful Dead. Before beginning a hiatus of uncertain length, a five-show farewell run was set for October 16–20, 1974 at Winterland in San Francisco. An idea developed to film the shows and then send the movie out on tour as a substitute. ( The Band would film their farewell concert at

5832-438: The twentieth century is marked by an almost total absence of actual improvisation in contemporary classical music. Since the 1950s, some contemporary composers have placed fewer restrictions on the improvising performer, using techniques such as vague notation (for example, indicating only that a certain number of notes must sound within a defined period of time). New Music ensembles formed around improvisation were founded, such as

5913-404: The use of the user bits. The formats of other varieties of SMPTE timecode are derived from that of the linear timecode . More complex timecodes such as vertical interval timecode can also include extra information in a variety of encodings. Sub-second timecode time values are expressed in terms of frames. Common supported frame rates include: In general, SMPTE timecode frame rate information

5994-486: The visual element to go along with the music, the animation to go along with the interviews, and the B-roll that really showed viewers with their own eyes the circus that was a Grateful Dead show in San Francisco circa 1974. ... the part of the movie that ate up the biggest slice of the budget and took the most work – the animated sequence in the beginning – is my favorite part. Back then, animation

6075-418: The vocal input during long sequences. Additionally, as many as two channels of his input would still be lost in the mix when the system was working properly. In the film, Lagin is only briefly seen in silhouette during "Morning Dew" and "Johnny B. Goode", fulfilling a request he made to Jerry Garcia after estranging himself from the Grateful Dead in 1975. With filmmaker Leon Gast directing, the concert footage

6156-506: The world. A number of approaches to teaching improvisation have emerged in jazz pedagogy, popular music pedagogy , the Dalcroze method , Orff-Schulwerk , and Satis Coleman's creative music. Current research in music education includes investigating how often improvisation is taught, how confident music majors and teachers are at teaching improvisation, neuroscience and psychological aspects of improvisation, and free-improvisation as

6237-503: Was a video thing. So we were one of the first movies that ever tried to interface SMPTE timecode and film. It really was kind of the crest of the wave." Garcia worked on the editing , assembly and synchronization for nearly three years. Those that knew the guitarist at the time say he was consumed by the completion of the project and highly stressed. Garcia called the process "two years of incredible doubt, crisis after crisis." Bassist Phil Lesh explained "I don’t think Jer had any idea at

6318-454: Was all done by hand, frame by frame. The Grateful Dead Movie was released on VHS in 1981. This edition was made from a video copy of the film, and the sound and visual quality were not of high standard. It was released in the UK as a double video CD, in 1995. A two-disc DVD of The Grateful Dead Movie was released on November 9, 2004. The movie was carefully restored from the film negative and

6399-699: Was certified Double Platinum (200,000 units) on February 21, 2005, in the Video Longform category. On November 1, 2011, the restored movie was released on Blu-ray , with lossless audio. Extras include a commentary on the Blu-ray disc production, plus a DVD with 95 minutes of extra songs and featurettes on the making of the movie. The Grateful Dead Movie is part of the All the Years Combine video box set, released April 17, 2012. While Garcia worked on

6480-482: Was shot on six film cameras and the audio recorded on two 16-track machines. Gast remembered "They were at a point where they were ready to break up. What Jerry and Ron Rakow wanted to do was shoot a full Grateful Dead performance, from beginning to end. It was going to be five nights at the Winterland and they said, 'Sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn’t. There will be one night when it will be magic.' I liked

6561-409: Was the most obvious and enduring locus of soloistic discretion in nineteenth-century opera." He goes on to identify seven main types of vocal improvisation used by opera singers in this repertory: Improvisation is one of the basic elements that sets jazz apart from other types of music. The unifying moments in improvisation that take place in live performance are understood to encompass the performer,

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