This solo is in Bb Dorian, with Bb as bass pedal note. "Nine types of industrial pollution" lasts 9:53 minutes on this release, thus much longer than the 5:56 minutes This time it's the original vinyl mix, the tracks in an earlier following order and a couple of different edits.
"Uncle light" belongs to the project/object series by the ZFT with additional recordings surrounding an album. It's a sped up track, as the ZFT release "Uncle light" shows. "Nine types of industrial pollution" is the first time when Zappa tookĪ solo by himself as a separate composition. Image to the right: The Mothers playing "King Kong" during their 1968 BBC Television special. Of an album, however, these tracks are of importance. I'll mostly skip commenting upon a track when there's no music in it. I'm following the track lists, but since this study is about Zappa's music, Two feature Pamela Zarubica once moreĪs the Suzie Creamcheese character. On "Uncle Meat" Zappa included three smaller tracks with monologues. The instrumentation varies, the pitches lie at different positionsĪnd the melody is played in several parallels. The theme a couple of times in different settings. Here it has a specific intro and outro added to the main theme. The return of the theme during the "Uncle Meat variations" is Opposition as well as variation as structure building methods. Though the "Uncle Meat main title theme" is a short piece, it contains a lot of different technical means, using Uncle Meat theme, bars from the third block (notes). You'll also see sequence building in this third section. When you look at the complete score in the Songbook, you'll notice several other instances of suchįourths movements. We can also here see examples of that the fourths movement, with which the piece has begun, returns No note has any keyįunction, but when the bass notes in the next example are taken as keynotes, the keys could be called C, B flat, A Minor During seventeen bars several scales alternateĮach other after each bar with a descending and later on ascending line in the bass as counterpoint. Staff two containsģ) The third section of the main title theme is multi-scale oriented. It's following a 5th chord on C and a 5th chord on B flat (only the third). Contrary to the first section, in this part normal 5th and 7th chords can be recognizedĪs it comes to the lead melody.
You can hear all notes of D except for C#: that one turns up as the central note of bar 2.Ģ) The second section follows the E flat scale, filling in the notes that were left out by the D scale of the first part The melody in staff 1 follows the VI 11th chord in a broken form. There's a D pedal note, determining the scale to be D, with the Dsus4 chord played The opening of "Uncle Meat" is one of a series of examples in this study where Zappa creates harmonic fields by freely mixingĪs good as all notes of a scale. The melody moves several times towards the centre note C sharp. The next section at "Piano introduction to Little House I used to live in". We'll see some more of interval determined structures in Repeated figure with a fifth in the third and fourth bar. Is determined by intervals and repeating figures, like fourths in the first bar, seconds in the second bar and a The melody derives its modern music character from the fact that it follows no traditional chords and its structure Uncle Meat theme, 1st section and opening of the 2nd section (notes). The "Uncle Meat main title theme" can be divided in three sections.ġ) The first section is a melody that uses the notes of D with C sharp as the melodic centre. The members of The Mothers at that time in the CD booklet. It doesn't carry the name of The Mothers or Zappa, but it does list With "Uncle Meat" in ancient German letters. To the right part of the album's cover art Zappa gave it up, only to return to the footage in the eighties. Scenes were filmed, but there weren't enough funds to finish itĪnd eventually some band members wouldn't take part in it no more if they didn't get paid for it.
The delay was due to Zappa's intent to have it accompanied by a movie of the "Uncle Meat" was recorded between October 1967 and February 1968, but released a year later inĪpril 1969. There are some live-recorded sections on the album and a few comic That can be found on the 1993 CD "The Yellow shark". "Uncle Meat" and "Dog breath" returned in a version for small orchestra "Pound for a brown" (see the Zappa's teens sections)Īnd "King Kong" became concert favorites. This double album is imbued with an abundance of ideas, to which Zappa could keep returning. After "Lumpy Gravy", Zappa further consolidated his intentions to combine pop music with modern music and jazz on "Uncle Meat".