The music theory of mashups

VIDEO of just the end mashup!
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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...

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/BWV9...

Imititation/Parody Mass (fun!)
   • Palestrina Parody Mass Mash-up | Già ...  

Nina Simone - Little Girl Blue
   • Nina Simone   Little girl blue  

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!)
   • Ella Fitzgerald-Air Mail Special  

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

That classical quodlibet thing
http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/how-make...

Great wordpress article on the "Irving Berlin quodlibet"
https://majortominor.wordpress.com/ta...

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