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The music theory of mashups

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VIDEO of just the end mashup!
https://www.facebook.com/adamneely/videos/10208144433828356/

Mashups, (otherwise known as QUODLIBETS), are a cool thing that you should definitely learn more about because we've been doing this for thousands of years, and the technique/style has yielded some pretty amazing things. Check it out!

Encyclopedia Britannica definition
https://www.britannica.com/art/quodlibet

Analysis of the Bach Quodlibet
http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Articles/BWV988-Quodlibet%5BBraatz%5D.htm

Fascinating take on the Bach quodlibet - pages and pages of analyses (if you're really bored, and the 30th Goldberg Variation just speaks to you ever so much)
http://www.bach-cantatas.com/NVD/BWV988-Quodlibet.htm

Imititation/Parody Mass (fun!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSMu9yr0nHE

Nina Simone - Little Girl Blue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT_Z-D31vbU

Ella Fitzgerald - Airmail Special (jazz quoting tour de force. Ella just slays here, quoting Davey Crockett, Jingle Bells, the Christmas Song, and the Angels Sing, Shave and a Haircut, Hey Mr. Sandman, Day-O, Mamma Look A Boo Boo, That’s Amore, and more!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN0ww1OzEoY

Massive Multiplayer Ensemble
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MassiveMultiplayerEnsembleNumber

That classical quodlibet thing
http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/how-make-classical-music-mashup-out-57-individual-themes/

Great wordpress article on the "Irving Berlin quodlibet"
https://majortominor.wordpress.com/tag/irving-berlin/

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The music theory of mashups

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