The Way Up is the eleventh and final studio album by the Pat Metheny Group . It was released in 2005 and won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album in 2006. It is the last album in the prolific three-decade collaboration of Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays .
6-558: The album consists of one 68-minute-long piece, split into four tracks. The piece is through composed , featuring complex shifts of dynamics and meter , and precise transitions between solo improvisation sections. Swiss multi-instrumentalist Gregoire Maret is showcased on the harmonica and joined the Group for the album's world tour. The tour included a performance at the Montreal Jazz Festival , and an official concert recording of
12-451: A collection of songs interrupted by recitative or spoken dialogue . Examples of the modern trend towards through-composed works in musical theater include the works of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Claude-Michel Schönberg . In musical theater, works with clear delineations between songs yet no spoken dialogue – such as Les Misérables or Hamilton – are usually instead referred to by the term " through-sung ". While through-composed form
18-472: Is especially characteristic of the literature of the art-song, where such works are contrasted with strophic settings.) Many examples of this form can be found in Schubert 's lieder , in which the words of a poem are set to music, and each line is different. In his lied " Erlkönig ", in which the setting proceeds to a different musical arrangement for each new stanza and whenever the piece comes to each character,
24-471: Is most noticeable in musical settings of poems, in contrast to the often used strophic form (AAA). Through-composed songs have different music for each stanza of the lyrics . The German word durchkomponiert is also used to indicate this concept. Musicologist James Webster defines through-composed music in the following manner: In general usage, a 'through-composed' work is one based on run-on movements without internal repetitions. (The distinction
30-690: The Seoul, South Korea appearance was released on DVD and Blu-Ray. All tracks are written by Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays Additional musicians Grammy Awards Through composed In the theory of musical form , through-composed music is a continuous, non- sectional , and non- repetitive piece of music. The term is typically used to describe songs, but can also apply to instrumental music. While most musical forms such as ternary form (ABA), rondo form (ABACABA), and sonata form (ABA') rely on repetition, through-composed music does not re-use material (ABCD). This constant introduction of new material
36-514: The character portrays its own voice register and tonality. Another example within instrumental music is Haydn 's ' Farewell Symphony '. The term "through-composed" is also applied to opera and musical theater to indicate a work that consists of an uninterrupted stream of music from beginning to end, as in the operas of Wagner . This stands in contrast to the practice, as for example occurs in Mozart's Italian - and German-language operas, of having
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