Ayler Upbeat Windups

Dikko Faust has provided these transcriptions of Ayler’s ‘Upbeat Windups’. Dikko explains:

     “This began comparing Spirits Rejoice & Infinite Spirit and expanded. Every example starts with an upbeat dominant (fifth) resolving to the tonic downbeat of the first measure of a song, tune, anthem, carol, nursery song, bugle call. A very common device, for Ayler as well as everyone else.
     A technical name for this musical device is ‘dominant pickup’.”

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