Night and Day is a popular song by Cole Porter that was written for the 1932 musical Gay Divorce. It is perhaps Porter’s most popular contribution to the Great American Songbook and has been recorded by dozens of musicians.
This song has a very unusual 48-bar form that can be analyzed in two ways:
• AAB form, each section being 16 bars
• ABABCB form, each section being 8 bars
The harmonic progression is also unusual for a popular song and differs quite a bit depending on the versions.
Here is the syllabus of this lesson:
- Listen to the version by Fred Astaire
- Harmonic and melodic analysis (PDF)
- Chords scales + 4 options to use on the bIIIº7 (PDF)
- Stan Getz version (PDF)
- My reharmonization (PDF)
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Lyrics:
Like the beat, beat, beat of the tom-tomWhen the jungle shadows fallLike the tick, tick-tock of the stately clockAs it stands against the wall
Like the drip, drip, drip of the raindropsWhen the summer shower is throughSo a voice within me keeps repeating you, you, you
Night and day, you are the oneOnly you beneath the moon and under the sunWhether near to me or farIt’s no matter darling where you areI think of you night and say
Day and night, why is it soThat this longing for you follows wherever I go?In the roaring traffic’s boomIn the silence of my lonely roomI think of you, night and day
Night and dayUnder the hide of meThere’s an oh, such a hungry yearning, burning inside of meAnd its torment won’t be through‘Til you let me spend my life making love to youDay and night, night and day
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3 comments on “Night And Day”
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Countrafact ready for the Pro members 🙂
I wrote this as a reharmonization of Night And Day with an added counter melody. Then I just kept the second voice and that became a composition 😉