“Stella by Starlight” is a popular jazz standard with music by Victor Young that was drawn from thematic material composed for the 1944 Paramount Pictures film The Uninvited.
Ned Washington, who wrote the lyrics for it in 1946.
This is an advanced level course:
- Analysis of the manuscript by Victor Young
- The diminished chord and the diminished scales
- Comparison of the original harmonic progression with the modern version
- Harmonic and melodic analysis
- Chords with voice leading
- Triads exercise with voice leading
- Tetrads exercise with voice leading
- Diatonic and non-diatonic tensions
- Chords scales
- Bop scales
Introduction (English):
Introduction (Français):
Listen to the playlist and let me know in the comments which is your favorite version!
Video lessons:
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Lyrics:
The song a robin singsThrough years of endless springsThe murmur of a brook at eventideThat ripples through a nook where two lovers hide
That great symphonic themeThat’s Stella by starlightAnd not a dreamMy heart and I agreeShe’s everything on earth to me
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6 comments on “Stella By Starlight”
I was practicing “First Song” by Charlie Haden and noticed some harmonic similarities with Stella!
I like all versions for different reasons and I like this one for the solos of Kenny Barron and Rufus Reid:
Thank you Alex, very interesting and dense
That’s true this lesson is pretty dense, I spent a lot of time analyzing and comparing the original and the new harmonic progression because I find this really interesting, specially with the piano score by Victor Young himself, a great voice leading study!
The movie “The Uninvited”
J’aime aussi beaucoup la version de Keith Jarrett dont Antoine Hervé dissèque l’introduction avec une exquise gourmandise : https://youtu.be/U8PfKnrUG4Q?si=_R2jh2RmjGO-TWr8