Jacob Collier: Moon River - Harmonic Analysis

In this video, I analyse Jacob Collier’s astonishing arrangement of ’Moon River’. I focus on how he moves between the 8 different keys*, or pitch centres, in the arrangement, as well as using transcriptions to highlight certain chords and progressions. This is one of the most complex a cappella arrangements he’s ever made, and all done without using a piano. *In the video, I state that Jacob moves to A4 = 432 from A4 = 440 from the second to the third verse. In actually fact, this is a shift to A4 =
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