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}} "Moondance" is a popular song written by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison and is the title song on his 1970 album ''Moondance''. Morrison did not release the song as a single until November 1977, seven and a half years after the album was released. It reached the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, charting at #92. The single's B-side, "Cold Wind in August", had been released in the same year, on his latest album at the time, ''A Period of Transition''. "Moondance" is the most frequently played song by Van Morrison in concert, as it is the only song known to have been played over a thousand times. ==Composition and recording== "Moondance" was recorded at the Mastertone Studio in New York City in August 1969, with Lewis Merenstein as producer.〔Heylin, Can You Feel the Silence?, p. 519〕 The song is played mostly acoustic, anchored by a walking bass line (played on electric bass by John Klingberg), with accompaniment by piano, guitar, saxophones, and flute with the instruments played with a soft jazz swing. It's a song about autumn, the composer's favorite season. Towards the end of the song, Morrison imitates a saxophone. The song also features a piano solo, played by Jeff Labes, which is immediately followed by an alto saxophone solo by Jack Schroer. The song ends with a trill on the Flute during the cadenza that fades out. Music journalist Erik Hage wrote that the significance of the song "lies in its direct jazz approach", expanding that observation with "''Astral Weeks'' had suggestions of jazz, but this song would take the genre head on. It would become Van Morrison's most successful and definitive jazz composition."〔Hage, The Words and Music of Van Morrison, p. 50〕 Schroer's solo is commented on in ''Saxophone Scales and Arpeggios'', as a reason why saxophonists should learn scales. The scale used in Schroer's "Moondance" solo is Aeolian A (A, B, C, D, E, F, G) or could simply be considered as a C Major scale and is played primarily over a D minor to A minor vamp that resolves via a sharp V (#5=F7) to natural V (5=E7#9) dominant chord. Morrison commented on writing the song: "With 'Moondance' I wrote the melody first. I played the melody on a soprano sax and I knew I had a song so I wrote lyrics to go with the melody. That's the way I wrote that one. I don't really have any words to particularly describe the song, sophisticated is probably the word I'm looking for. For me, 'Moondance' is a sophisticated song. Frank Sinatra wouldn't be out of place singing that."〔Hinton, Celtic Crossroads, pp.106-107〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Moondance (Van Morrison song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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