ZAPPA THE COMPOSER:

     By looking to the musical structure in Zappa’s compositions, I have discovered more about the complexity and unexpected organization that Zappa created in these compositions. He was an unconventional composer that produced a variety of musical genres and put them together creating eccentric and outstanding compositions. In many of Zappa’s arrangements, we can hear the diversity of genres that he liked to merge in a single composition such as jazz, rock, rhythm and blues joined by other genres like classical music, between many others. Zappa had a mesmerizing creativity and vision that is shown in all of the compositions he wrote and in the recordings as well. 

      The recording of his songs was also a primordial element in his music since in many of his recordings, Zappa and his musicians would also improvise and create a variety of collage sounds to blend them together with the rest of the composition. From what I have listen in Zappa’s compositions, I have learn that most of his songs have a different form of structure and it would change, generally, depending on the album. For example, in the album Lumpy Gravy (1967), which was Zappa’s first solo album, we could describe the main musical structure style that he used through the album in the following lines:

- Spoken Word

- Serious Related Music

- Rock Related Music

- Jazz Related Music

-  Electroacoustics

    

-  Satirical Music

This music structure shows the range of genres and the complexity of the compositions that Zappa produced.

 Video that includes segments from Suzy Creamcheese promo 

and live acts in New York 1967, London 1968, and Germany 1968.