[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"chart:madagascar":3},"title: Madagascar\ncomposer: Richie Beirach\nstyle: Medium slow, straight eighths\nkey: Em\nform: AB + Interlude, 32 bars\ncontext: modal\nrecording: John Abercrombie Quartet; Abercrombie Quartet; ECM; 1980\nyoutube: FjDRD5s7UxY\n# analysis: 2026-10-19, rules v2; E minor, modal\n# recording: recorded November 1979 (Richie Beirach, George Mraz, Peter Donald), ECM 1164; the chart follows Abercrombie's version (Wikipedia, MusicBrainz); video: The First Quartet, the same take\n# book: as played by John Abercrombie. A repeating piano figure (two bars, the second held) is played throughout,\n# solos too (with some variation).\n# routing: Intro (repeated), A1 and A2 (each repeated, 1st and 2nd endings), B, Interlude (repeated);\n# solos on the form (A1 A2 B, 24 bars); after solos, D.S. (to A1) al Ending.\n# book: every \"Ab(add 9 omit 3)\" is written Ab, every \"Db(add 9 omit 3)\" Db (a 5th with the 9th, no 3rd);\n# \"Absus(add b9)\" and \"Dbsus(add b9)\" are written Absus4b9 and Dbsus4b9;\n# \"EMa7(b5)\" is written EMaj7#11.\n\n# bar | chord\n# the Intro is played twice\n\nsection: Intro\n1 | EmMaj7\u002FG  # from the symbol: minor-major 7th\n1 | Ab        # modal major: Lydian\n3 | EmMaj7\u002FG  # from the symbol: minor-major 7th\n3 | Ab        # modal major: Lydian\n4 | Ab\n\nsection: A1\n@segno 1\n1 | EmMaj7\u002FG  # from the symbol: minor-major 7th\n1 | Ab        # modal major: Lydian\n3 | EmMaj7\u002FG  # from the symbol: minor-major 7th\n3 | Ab        # modal major: Lydian\n4 | Ab\n# bar 4 (1st ending): Ab held\n@ending 1 4\n5 | Ab\n5 | Absus4b9  # from the symbol: sus b9\n@ending 2 5\n\nsection: A2\n1 | AmMaj7\u002FC  # from the symbol: minor-major 7th\n1 | Db        # modal major: Lydian\n3 | AmMaj7\u002FC  # from the symbol: minor-major 7th\n3 | Db        # modal major: Lydian\n4 | Db\n# bar 4 (1st ending): Db held\n@ending 1 4\n5 | Db\n5 | Dbsus4b9  # from the symbol: sus b9\n@ending 2 5\n\nsection: B\nbars: 8\n1 | EMaj7#11  # from the symbol: #11\n1 | Ebsus     # static sus: Mixolydian\n3 | Ebsus\n3 | EMaj7#11  # from the symbol: #11\n5 | EMaj7#11\n5 | Ebsus     # static sus: Mixolydian\n7 | Ebsus\n7 | EMaj7#11  # from the symbol: #11\n# alt (solos): bars 1–8 ([EMaj7b5] 2 bars, [Eb7sus] 2 bars, [EMaj7b5] 2 bars, [Eb7#9#5] 2 bars), the changes in brackets used for solos\n\nsection: Interlude\nbars: 10\n# Interlude (ff): unlettered in the book, four bars played twice (bars 1–8)\n1 | EmMaj7\u002FG  # from the symbol: minor-major 7th\n1 | Ab        # modal major: Lydian\n3 | EmMaj7\u002FG  # from the symbol: minor-major 7th\n3 | Ab        # modal major: Lydian\n5 | EmMaj7\u002FG  # from the symbol: minor-major 7th\n5 | Ab        # modal major: Lydian\n7 | EmMaj7\u002FG  # from the symbol: minor-major 7th\n7 | Ab        # modal major: Lydian\n8 | Ab\n@nav 8 D.S. al Ending\n\nsection: Ending\nbars: 4\n# Ending (guitar solo): bars 1–2 vamp and solo till cue; on cue, bar 3 (fermata)\n1 | EmMaj7\u002FG  # from the symbol: minor-major 7th\n1 | Ab        # modal major: Lydian\n2 | Ab\n3 | EmMaj7\u002FG  # from the symbol: minor-major 7th\n3 | Ab        # modal major: Lydian\n",1793484801113]