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Journal articles on the topic "Musical composition; jazz"
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Arestov, Sergey S. "Jazz composition in the modern educational process." Vestnik of Saint Petersburg State University of Culture, no. 1 (46) (March 2021): 140–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.30725/2619-0303-2021-1-140-144.
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The teaching system is periodically updated and improved. The article outlines the perspective of using jazz composition in the system of musical education. Its expediency is emphasized, and its conditionality is shown by several interacting factors that contribute to the formation of professional skills of a musician-performer and teacher. In addition, the characteristic features that distinguish it from other musical disciplines are identified. At the same time, jazz composition as a technique for creating works is the basis for the formation and development of a musical style that involves the search for an individual performing style. Jazz composition is considered as a sphere of modern musical culture that meets the needs of musicians and listeners. The article shows the importance of jazz composition in the realities of the development of musical styles, emphasizes its importance in the system of values of musical culture, the objective meaning of which is determined by its inherent nature in several components of the modern creative process.
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Campău, Elisabeta Firtescu. "Improvised musical performance as conversational language in jazz." Artes. Journal of Musicology 26, no. 1 (April 1, 2022): 235–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ajm-2022-0015.
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Abstract Musical interpretation, in the form of the act of spontaneous composition, defined jazz throughout its stylistic evolution. Unlike other serious music, jazz has crystallised mainly due to the creative act of musical interpretation and less to the process of written musical construction. Within this cerebral musical genre, the act of performing took over as the fundamental role in the artistic communication between jazz musicians and audience but it especially took the form of an interrelation in the collective musical interpretation. The act of musical improvisation, in terms of jazz, is controlled by certain stylistic parameters, associated with form, phrasing and timbre, constantly relating to the harmonic, rhythmic and melodic planes. The standardisation of these parameters transformed jazz into a conversational musical language, which allows constant and organised communication between musicians through the phenomenon of interplay (the interaction of performers during the collective interpretive act). The principles of interplay are also integrated in the solo interpretation, especially in the case of pianists, who always improvise referring to the context and the relationship created between the accompaniment and the melodic plane. At the same time, just like verbal communication, mastering the jazz language involves reaching the level of free speech, with a spontaneous and contextual expression. This freedom of artistic expression involves the assimilation of the jazz language, creating a personal vocabulary and its use as a means of constructing authentic (spontaneously created) and eloquent musical discourses. Jazz language cannot be assimilated only through individual study, as is possible in the serious music of European tradition. The study and improvement of jazz musicians constantly depends on artistic socialisation and musical conversation. Jazz is a musical genre in continuous transformation, due to the fact that it is definitely more of an act of interpretation than of a compositional one. Jazz imposed musical interpretation as having the same contribution of creation with the compositional act, in terms of stylistic definition and crystallisation of an elaborated musical current or genre.
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Kharenko, Alina. "Musical dramaturgy as a creative method in jazz art: the example of the piano art by Sergey Davydov." Problems of Interaction Between Arts, Pedagogy and the Theory and Practice of Education 55, no. 55 (November 20, 2019): 155–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.34064/khnum1-55.11.
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Background. Jazz is one of the most significant phenomena of the entire twentieth century, which in a very short period of time has won the attention of listeners around the world. Finally, many explores are interested in the study of jazz art as a significant element of the world’s musical heritage. There are a lot of works written by national and foreign musicologists who study jazz music from different viewpoints. A great variety of studies in jazz art include works devoted to the technical aspect, on the one hand: the study of scale harmony, rhythm, instrumentation, and on the other hand – the issues of historiography and style formation. However, focusing mainly on the identification of specific methods of using individual elements of the entire complex of music and expressive means of jazz art, scientists are less interested in the study of more «in-depth» issues, such as interpretation in jazz art, form building, semiotic and hermeneuticmethods of jazz music evaluation, musical dramaturgy. The concept of jazzmusic making remains unexplored. In our understanding, the study of musical dramaturgy deserves special attention, because at its level the coordinates of jazz music as a complex improvisation process converge. Objectives. The purpose of the article is to identify and study the main factors that determine the principles of formation of jazz musical dramaturgy at the level of solo piano composition. It is the improvisational nature of the composing and performing arts as well as the absence of a detailed musical notation that indicate the need to study the subject and an attempt to provide its scientific substantiation. Methods. The methodology of the study includes analytical, comparative, systematic and stylistic methods. This methodological basis allows us to identify the principles of jazz musical dramaturgy from the standpoint of piano jazz art, which, in the author’s opinion, gives an opportunity to speak about the peculiarities of organizing a musical text with the texture of different types of arrangement. Results. Over the last decades, jazz, without losing its specificity, has increasingly shown a tendency to interpenetrate with academic musical art, and at the same time become universal. An example of this could be the creative work of the renowned Kharkov jazz pianist Sergey Davydov. Turning to the specifics of the solo improvisational mastery of the pianist, we should distinguish the following important vectors in his work: commitment to the synthesis of jazz and academic traditions, tendency to polyphonize the textual presentation of the musical text, the use of the sonata principles as a consistent processual development of the whole complex of music and artistic ideas. The subject of the analysis offered in this study is a demonstrative example of the arrangement of the musical text of S. Davidov’s solo improvisation, which he demonstrated at the international festival “S. Rakhmaninov and Ukrainian Culturе”, which took place in Kharkiv in 2007 (the analysis was made on the basis of the video footage). The uniqueness of this example is that the pianist in his improvisation synthesized jazz intonation-rhythmic idiom with constructive and creatively inventive correlation of textural and compositional techniques of S. Rachmanino’s pianism. The conducted analysis confirms that S. Davydov, in addition to using the whole arsenal of specific jazz means of organizing sound fabric, adapts in his improvisation texturally-theatrical principles characteristic of S. Rakhmaninov’s work, and not only at the expense of quoting, but and at the intonational level. The factual organization of the composition, in this case, is based on the use of the potential of large and passage techniques, which brings together S. Davydov’s creative concepts with the aesthetics of virtuosity of European pianist composers of the Romantic period. Solo improvisation is analyzed – a kind of musical recital, which lacks the traditional jazz principle of formation based on variational construction, and is dominated by freely interpreted sonatas. Conclusions. Thus, the basic principles of musical dramaturgy formation in jazz art are: the use of specific jazz means of expression, which in the light of textual organization of the musical text realize the emotional and meaningful tension, forming a clear dramatic outline of the whole composition. Conflict, as a multilayered, comprehensive process of choosing an aesthetic position in the climax, reaches a point of dramatic ignition due to specific performance factors: dynamics, agogics, textural-rhythmic combinations. Not only specific performing skills but also energetic translation of the ideological content of the whole composition are involved in this process. In the context of jazz musical dramaturgy, one more important factor, which is fundamental in both solo and ensemble jazz art, is specific communication. However, when compared to academic music, where the listening strategy is interpreted as a «strategy of co-intonation to the sound form» but in jazz culture it is the listener who, at the level of the performer or interpreter, is a direct participant of musical dramaturgy creation. This is expressed by applause at times of intense tension or after the most successful improvisation of one of the ensemble members. Summarizing all the above, on the basis of the analysis we have tried to give our corrections to the concept of «musical dramaturgy in jazz» – is a thematic process of juxtaposition and interaction of elements of jazz language that contains various polystylistic complexes of Western European academic art, directing the energy of communication to the higher artistic unity of a jazz work.
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Dasevschii, Veaceslav. "Jazz improvisation as a phenomenon of music art." Akademos, no. 3(62) (January 2022): 132–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.52673/18570461.21.3-62.17.
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This article examines a series of theoretical issues of jazz improvisation. The author analyzes various definitions and emphasizes the main features of jazz improvisation, reveals a number of ways of processing jazz standards. A special aspect represents the character of dialogue proper to this type of musical creation, the typology of improvisation and the relationship between improvisation and composition.
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Boyle, James Philip Sheng, Mohd Nasir Hashim, and Yi-Li Chang. "THE INFLUENTIAL MUSICAL COMPOSITIONAL TOOLS OF MALAY POPULAR MUSIC IN MALAYSIA OF THE MID 20th AND THE EARLY 21st CENTURY." International Journal of Creative Industries 4, no. 9 (March 6, 2022): 01–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.35631/ijcrei.49001.
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In the mid-20th century, it is noteworthy that Malay popular music composed in this era was heavily influenced by various stylistic and cultural musical forms of both the traditional Malay styles such as asli, inang, joget, zapin and even keroncong, and also by Western idioms and styles. Branded as jazz ballads in the Mid-20th Century, Malay popular music is a key subject in unveiling the musical changes in the Malay popular music history of Peninsula Malaysia. In the 1960s, there was a trend to compose Malay popular music with heavily influenced idiomatic jazz harmonics in the many various Western styles. In the early 21st century, as it has musically and stylistically evolved, Malay popular music became closely associated with the continuous dissemination of patriotic songs in Malaysia as well as an amalgamation of the various trending styles of the Western hemisphere such as funk, pop, rhythm and blues, gospel and even rock music. Throughout it all, the continued and consistent harmonics of Jazz Music have been an ever-present tool for many Malay Popular Music composers since the early years of independence. This paper will focus on four chosen compositions, two from each of the time frames in focus and each tune will have an analysis from a singular compositional viewpoint, be it melodic (Gema Rembulan-Jimmy Boyle, 1956), chordal (Air Mata Berderai-Alfonso Soliano,1964) or the dissertation of the song-form (Selingkuh Kasih-Mokhzani Ismail,2006 & Gemilang-Aubrey Suwito,2005). Through the analysis of the chosen musical scores, this paper intends to reintroduce and refresh the essential elements of composing a Malay Popular Music composition as well as the musical influences and changing mindsets of approach on the different compositional styles of Malay popular music, its culture, and identity, of the mid-20th and the early 21st centuries of Malaysia to the current and future composers of this genre.
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Kim, Sook-He. "The Musical Composition of African American Narrative : Toni Morrison’s Jazz." NEW STUDIES OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE 69 (February 28, 2018): 125–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.21087/nsell.2018.02.69.125.
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DuPree, Mary Herron. "Mirror to an Age: Musical America, 1918–30." Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle 23 (1990): 137–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14723808.1990.10540939.
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The time between the end of the First World War in 1918 and the stock market crash in 1929 has traditionally been considered an interregnum in American Music: before it, American music and musical culture largely reflected that of Europe, and after it, America found its voice in the distinctive compositions of Aaron Copland, Roy Harris and others. An examination of periodical writings on music from that time, however, reveals that this period marked not a state of anticipation but the real beginning of modern American music, of composition of international significance, and of distinctive styles of American composition. It was a period when traditionalism, modernism and jazz-influenced composition were each passionately defended and condemned not only in the music journals but in the pages of most of the general intellectual magazines.
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Myroshnychenko, Valerii. "TEACHING JAZZ IMPROVISATION TO A FUTURE VOCAL ARTIST: ITS ESSENCE AND SPECIFICS." Academic Notes Series Pedagogical Science 1, no. 192 (March 2021): 189–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.36550/2415-7988-2021-1-192-189-193.
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The issues of teaching jazz improvisation to future vocal artists, especially theoretical and methodological aspects of their professional development in institutions of higher art education, have not been sufficiently studied. The matters of the essence and specifics of pop and jazz art, expressive means of improvisational mastery in vocal performance, the special nature of the relation between a composer and a performer, and the relationship with the audience become especially relevant. Vocal performance is one of the most important parts of jazz music. Both the first blues performers and many performers of the following decades – the period of New Orleans jazz, the era of swing, bebop and modern jazz – spark our interest. In addition to pronouncing the basic musical text, talented improvising vocalists have been using and continue to use scat singing till this day. The peculiarity of teaching jazz improvisation is also that it is a specific way of spiritual communication by musical means that can «say» more than words. It is a special concert genre that simulates a situation of direct spiritual communication, which occurs when two or more people related by a previously friendly relationship meet or during a meeting of people who have a sense of empathy between them. The specific features of a future vocal artist include combinatorial memory, imagination, fantasy, technical capabilities, and musical thinking, since the musician implements their spiritual and emotional potential in improvisation, operating with blocks of musical and artistic information during the jazz composition performance, combining them in different patterns, and thus finds the most complete, voluminous artistic embodiment of the improvisational idea. Vocal and jazz art is special in its manner, harmony, performance techniques, sound production, and orthoepy. Each style has its own professional performers whose artistic work presents the standard of the way the music sounds. Expressive means of improvisational technique in jazz are various, which is due to the specific features of variable jazz styles, individual performance style of vocal artists and the specifics of musical forms and genres typical of such technique.
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Day, Jonathan. "Jazz, Kant and Zen." Culture and Dialogue 4, no. 2 (October 26, 2016): 301–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24683949-12340017.
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Transgression and experimentation are at the heart of the musical composition with which this work begins. The compositional approaches employed developed from a consideration of Kant’s Critique of Judgement (1790) which offers a compelling explanation for the apparently bizarre “claim to objectivity” commonly made in judgements of taste. Kant’s final conclusion around the source of the claim is, for me, disappointing. This current work re-examines and extends his argument through an elision with Zen writing, and offers an alternate account. It is posited that the “claim to objectivity” operates as a linguistic marker, acknowledging the presence of experience that is trans-rational and supra-linguistic, and indicating a point/place at which language ceases to be viable. It relies on and incites an implicit shared understanding that aesthetic experience often exceeds language, and further indicates that one or more of the myriad unspeakable things are accessible nearby. This understanding is explored in relation to compositional practice, finding a powerful synergy with the writing of composers, improvisers, and avant-garde/jazz theorists. The work concludes with the suggestion that aesthetic experience and the “beautiful” may therefore signpost the ineffable, referring back to the score with which this work began.
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Firdaus, Ade Surya, Hendra Santosa, and Ni Wayan Ardini. "I Gusti Anglurah Panji Sakti: Sebuah Interpretasi dalam Musik Jazz." Gondang: Jurnal Seni dan Budaya 3, no. 2 (December 3, 2019): 86. http://dx.doi.org/10.24114/gondang.v3i2.13843.
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Interpretation of I Gusti Anglurah Panji Sakti is a title of musical composition that interprets or reinterprets the figure of King Panji Sakti who has smart characters, courageous, sympathetic, accommodating, and always close to his subordinates and thick with the Patriotism nature of anti-hegemony, anti-imperialism and anti monopoly in a jazz composition. In the process of its creation, it was motivated by an interest in the figure of Panji Sakti as a King who deserved to be a role model, because of his nationalist and patriotic character which according to the composer was very good in build character of the nation, evident from his living history in speech stories and folklore, through this work the composer also hopes to contribute in reviving the Panji Sakti figure to theother people. This article aims to provide an overview of the process of transforming the figure of King Panji Sakti into jazz music. The process of transformation into jazz music is done by the method of creation from exploration which begins with the study of literature on the history of Panji Sakti and research.in the improvisation step, the composer imagine to find suitable motives to implementing the figure of Panji Sakti and design it so that it becomes the main melodies in this work, then rests on Pono Banoe's opinion about the elements of music namely melody, rhythm and harmony the creator explored the main melody with chords and rhythm which was deemed suitable for this work so that it became a complete musical composition, after which this work was copied into musical notes, and the result is music compositions with a tempo of 100 and beats 4/4, 5 / 4, and 7/4 with key centers G / 1 # (one sharp) and song forms AI, AII, B, and AIII, at the forming step the composer determines the instrument, and chooses supporting musicians who will help in the process of this music.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Musical composition; jazz"
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Harvey, Stephen P. "Jazz Chamber Music: An Analysis of Chris Potter’s Imaginary Cities and a Musical Composition." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1471354255.
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Chirwa, Kabelo Ufulu. "Encumbered Existence| A Three Movement Work for Jazz Orchestra." Thesis, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10279545.
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Encumbered Existence is a three-movement programmatic work for jazz orchestra that uses specific events in African-American history to capture the struggle of African- Americans and emotions provoked by these events. The first movement, ?The State of the World,? and last movement, ?Between the World and Me,? capture painful events such as the shooting of Trayvon Martin. ?Between the World and Me? uses the dates of Martin?s birth and death as set classes to guide the piece. The second movement, ?The Dream,? portrays a hopeful attitude and is inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the ?I Have a Dream? speech. Encumbered Existence is 314 measure long. Prior to the score, an analysis of the piece provides an outline of the overall structure of the work as well as illustrations of the musical quotations used throughout the piece. The compositional decisions made during the creative process are explained by highlighting individual musical moments in the piece and then examining their correlation to the work. All inspirational material is also discussed.
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Ormsby, Verle A. "John Jacob Graas, Jr. : jazz horn performer, jazz composer, and arranger." Virtual Press, 1988. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/560288.
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This paper is divided into two broad sections. The first section traces the life and career of John Graas through an examination of the contents of the John Graas Memorabilia and Memorial Library, which contains photo albums, newspaper clippings, records and tapes, approximately one hundred original compositions, and personal correspondence between the author and people who knew and worked with Graas.The second section is an examination and discussion of Graas's original compositions. This discussion traces Graas's compositional development and growth as an acknowledged jazz composer through the melodic analysis of selected original compositions.Findings1. John Graas was a classically-schooled horn player who studied with Max Pottag and Wilhelm Valkanier, and performed with the Indianapolis and Cleveland orchestras.2. He was best known for being the first horn player to achieve prominence in the jazz field. Graas acquired his jazz skills first as a performer with Thornhill, Beneke, and Kenton, and later as a composition student of Lennie Tristano, Shorty Rogers and Dr. Wesley LaViolette. 3. Numbering over one-hundred compositions, Graas’ works range from standard to innovative works for various-sized ensembles, including works for solo horn, solo piano, a television score, and his Jazz Symphony #1, written for full symphony orchestra and nine-piece jazz ensemble.Conclusions1. Graas was acknowledged as the first horn player to achieve prominence in the field of jazz, as recognized by such top, jazz polls as Down Beat, Metronome, and Playboy, from 1955 to 1961.2. His early improvisations helped to open the jazz field to future jazz hornists: Watkins, Amram, Ruff, Varner.3. Graas showed true pioneer spirit by working hard to expand limits placed on the horn by classical tradition, in order to reach a new and different standard of performance.School of Music
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Norton, Benjamin D. "Little Eichmanns: A Composition for Chamber Octet." UKnowledge, 2013. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/music_etds/18.
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An original composition in one movement for a chamber octet comprised of a string quartet and a jazz piano quartet with tenor saxophone. The work develops an idée fixe, introduced in the opening bars, through a wide variety of transformations, textures, and styles. The two quartets begin in antiphonal alteration, united in thematic material, yet separated by style. A modern art music style contrasts with an improvisational jazz style. Gradually, the two quartets, and their concomitant musics, bleed into one another, breaking down stylistic boundaries. In the conclusion of the work, the idée fixe, the supplementary themes, and the two quartets coalesce into an organic sonic whole.
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Hansson, Clare. "Marian McPartland, jazz pianist : an overview of a musical career." Queensland University of Technology, 2006. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16621/.
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This, the first study at doctoral level of any white female jazz instrumentalist, provides an overview to the long, active and enduring musical career of British-born, New York-based jazz pianist, Marian McPartland (born 1918). For over six decades, besides being a pianist and a composer, she has been prominent in the professional roles of educator, writer, record producer and recording artist, radio broadcaster and advocate. The scope and impact of this multi-layered career are conveyed through the medium of a Website profiling significant aspects of her professional life through textual, aural and visual presentation. Although not claiming to be exhaustive, this Website brings together a comprehensive collection of data covering all aspects of Marian McPartland's career. Data have been gathered and collated from material in the public domain, and all such sources are acknowledged and referenced. The Website is navigable through three links at the bottom of the Home Page - 1) Historical Perspective; 2) Selected Analyses; and 3) Marian McPartland In Context. Part One of the Website provides access to Marian McPartland's various professional roles in jazz, as well as public profiles, and is consolidated by listings of support material. Part Two of the Website contains formal analyses of four of her compositions, each preceded by a short introduction. The analyses are based on scores transcribed from her recorded improvisations. A discussion of her stylistic approach follows the analyses. Part Three of the Website contextualizes Marian McPartland as a woman in jazz during its major historical and stylistic movements. An Introduction and a Conclusion provide the academic framework for this study. The Introduction outlines the rationale for the study, the dimensions of the study, the methodologies used, and the research process. The Conclusion provides critical commentary on Marian McPartland's musical career, and deductions are made about her significance in and contribution to jazz, based on the evidence presented in the Website. A CD of the entire Website completes the presentation of this thesis, included under Supplementary Material in the back pocket of the thesis. This overview of Marian McPartland's entire career makes an original contribution to knowledge on this jazz artist, and, in a broader sense, provides an important resource for future research in the area of jazz music and musicians.
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Hansson, Clare. "Marian McPartland, jazz pianist : an overview of a musical career." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2006. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/16621/1/Clare_Hansson_Thesis.pdf.
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This, the first study at doctoral level of any white female jazz instrumentalist, provides an overview to the long, active and enduring musical career of British-born, New York-based jazz pianist, Marian McPartland (born 1918). For over six decades, besides being a pianist and a composer, she has been prominent in the professional roles of educator, writer, record producer and recording artist, radio broadcaster and advocate. The scope and impact of this multi-layered career are conveyed through the medium of a Website profiling significant aspects of her professional life through textual, aural and visual presentation. Although not claiming to be exhaustive, this Website brings together a comprehensive collection of data covering all aspects of Marian McPartland's career. Data have been gathered and collated from material in the public domain, and all such sources are acknowledged and referenced.
The Website is navigable through three links at the bottom of the Home Page - 1) Historical Perspective; 2) Selected Analyses; and 3) Marian McPartland In Context. Part One of the Website provides access to Marian McPartland's various professional roles in jazz, as well as public profiles, and is consolidated by listings of support material. Part Two of the Website contains formal analyses of four of her compositions, each preceded by a short introduction. The analyses are based on scores transcribed from her recorded improvisations. A discussion of her stylistic approach follows the analyses. Part Three of the Website contextualizes Marian McPartland as a woman in jazz during its major historical and stylistic movements.
An Introduction and a Conclusion provide the academic framework for this study. The Introduction outlines the rationale for the study, the dimensions of the study, the methodologies used, and the research process. The Conclusion provides critical commentary on Marian McPartland's musical career, and deductions are made about her significance in and contribution to jazz, based on the evidence presented in the Website. A CD of the entire Website completes the presentation of this thesis, included under Supplementary Material in the back pocket of the thesis. This overview of Marian McPartland's entire career makes an original contribution to knowledge on this jazz artist, and, in a broader sense, provides an important resource for future research in the area of jazz music and musicians.
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MacDonald, Glyn Alan. "Towards interaction: Combining jazz techniques and idiomatic writing for Varied ensembles. A collection of musical works -and- An exegesis." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2019. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2204.
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This practice-led research project has produced musical works that bring together ensembles from the Western Classical tradition that only read notation, and, jazz soloists who improvise. Three works ‘Standing Ground’, ‘The Journey’ and ‘Matt versus the Zombies’ were composed for three ensembles each with an improvising soloist. These ensembles included a British style Brass Band, Brass Quintet and a double Saxophone quartet.
The project built on the work of Andy Scott and Eddie Sauter, both of whom wrote for non-jazz ensembles and an improvising artist without including a jazz rhythm section. The accompanying non-jazz ensemble was written in such a way as to provide interactive possibilities to assist the improviser in their creativity. The works in this project included elements found in the jazz rhythm section that I believed could be notated idiomatically. These elements were: call and response; interjection and setting and sustaining the groove. Data was collected through journaling and audio recording of the process from composition, to rehearsal and through to the performance. The compositions were recorded and the works analysed in this exegesis. The exegesis is written in a way to take the reader through the journey I have undertaken to produce these works, hence it is exploratory in nature.
Broadly speaking, injecting the elements from the jazz rhythm section into notated parts for a variety of musicians, both amateur and professional, was a successful and viable approach. The recordings, coupled with the analysis herein, shows that there were moments, where the elements of call and response, and interjection, notated in the accompanying musicians’ parts, created moments of dialogue, and the improvising artist used these to assist them in their improvising creativity. Feedback from all concerned (soloists and groups) was positive and supports the notion that community and professional ensembles, jazz and classical stylistic worlds can coexist, and learn from one another and make music that transcends style and notation constraints. This project adds to the scope of methodologies within creative music research practice. It also stands as an example of one that specifically addresses ways of notating for reading ensembles that will allow them to engage with improvising musicians.
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Rays, Luís Gustavo Carvalho Alonso. "A trajetória musical do compositor brasileiro Djalma de Andrade = Bola Sete." [s.n.], 2018. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/283940.
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Resumo: Este trabalho apresenta e analisa os elementos musicais pertencentes aos diferentes estilos e gêneros que caracterizam a obra do compositor e músico brasileiro Djalma de Andrade, mais conhecido nos meios musicais como "Bola Sete", evidenciados neste trabalho pela notável influência do jazz em suas composições e os reflexos de sua vida pessoal, como a sua origem humilde, sua dedicação à arte como meio de sobrevivência, sua espiritualidade, a busca do reconhecimento profissional em outros países e as parcerias com importantes músicos seus contemporâneos, pois estamos cientes da importância e necessidade de contribuir para com a historiografia da música brasileira, bem como da carência de trabalhos direcionados à interpretação das obras para o violão. Os elementos acima mencionados que marcaram o estilo deste músico no cenário musical na segunda metade do século XX, de certa forma ajudaram a construir a cultura popular musical brasileira, consolidada por outros personagens de nosso país. Os achados desta pesquisa tiveram como fonte principal o acervo particular Anne Sete, a viúva do compositor, que despreendidamente contemplounos com informações privadas como cartas, partituras, gravações e recortes de jornais e revistas contendo artigos que retratam a trajetória deste incomparável músico, tendo em vista que sua vida e obra são pouco conhecidas no meio acadêmico. O primeiro capítulo desta pesquisa recupera a trajetória pessoal e profissional do compositor e músico objeto desta investigação apresentando uma apreciação crítica dessas fontes bibliográficas. No segundo capítulo realizamos um estudo detalhado dos elementos musicais que caracterizam as composições de Djalma de Andrade identificando as suas sugestões interpretativas e apresentando os exemplos musicais em seus diferentes estilos e gêneros, observando, principalmente, a influência do jazz em suas composições. No terceiro capítulo, transcrevemos e analisamos algumas das obras, selecionadas a partir da sua importância na discografia nacional e internacional, pois, além de pesquisar e exemplificar os dados colhidos, ilustrando as reflexões sobre os elementos que caracterizam a obra do músico Djalma de Andrade, o Bola Sete, atendemos ao objetivo principal deste trabalho que é apresentar um estudo do repertório escrito para violão por este artista e incentivar novas criações e aperfeiçoamentos musicais que contribuam para a evolução e a inovação musical de nosso tempo
Abstract: This dissertation analyses the musical elements that belong to the different styles and genres that characterize the work of Djalma de Andrade, a Brazilian composer and musician, who is best known as "Bola Sete". This piece aims to exemplify the notable Jazz influences in the musicians work, as well as his personal life, his humble origins, his dedication to art as a means of survival, his spirituality, the search for professional recognition in other countries and the collaboration with other important musicians - for we are aware of the importance of contributing to the history of Brazilian music, as well as the lack of work that aims to interpret the art of the acoustic guitar. The elements above mentioned that marked the style of Djalma de Andrade in the second half of the 20th century, in many ways helped build the popular Brazilian musical culture, consolidated as well, by other characters of this country. The main reference for this research was the personal archive of Anne Sete, Djalma's widow, who unselfishly provided personal information such as letters and newspaper clippings containing the trajectory of this incomparable musician. We would like to point out that his life and work are not well known in academic circles. The first chapter of this research uncovers the musician's personal and professional trajectory with a critical appreciation of the archival material. The second chapter consists of a detailed study of the elements that were key in Djalma de Andrade's compositions - identifying interpretive suggestions and presenting musical examples of his different styles and genres. But mostly, we aim to reveal the jazz influence in his compositions. The third chapter is a transcription and analysis of a selection of his work, chosen due to their importance in the national and international repertoire. We have researched and exemplified the data, pondering about the elements that characterize the work of Djalma de Andrade, "Bola Sete" - but our main focus was to study the artist's acoustic guitar repertoire and hopefully inspire new work that contribute to the musical evolution and innovation of our times
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Huntley, Alec Villars. "The Guaraldi Sound: The Musical Devices that Characterize Vince Guaraldi's Improvisational and Compositional Idiom." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2020. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1752365/.
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Vince Guaraldi (1928-1976) was a jazz pianist who achieved tremendous financial and commercial success in the 1960s with his popular recordings and his work for the Peanuts animated shorts. He cultivated a musical style that drew from several identifiable sources: boogie-woogie, bebop, Brazilian and Afro-Cuban jazz, and rock ‘n' roll. The result was a distinct approach to jazz which, although it may not have been as influential as that of some of his contemporaries, nevertheless constituted a unique and personal voice—what several commentators have referred to as the "Guaraldi sound." This dissertation considers the entire range of Guaraldi's recorded output in order to define and catalog many elements that contributed to Guaraldi's musical style. Using an analytical framework drawn from the work of Leonard Meyer and Benjamin Givan, this study describes both Guaraldi's improvisational style—the licks, patterns, and phrases that he plays while soloing—and common elements of his compositions—the chord progressions, grooves, and other features that are particularly idiomatic. Also discussed are Guaraldi's status within the established jazz canon and the disparity between his widespread popularity and his lukewarm critical reputation. The discussion and analyses provide useful insights for fans of Guaraldi, fans of Peanuts music, jazz musicologists, and any seeking to emulate the Guaraldi sound.
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Feijão, Pedro Cipriano 1975. "Um algoritmo de criação de improvisos com harmonia de jazz." [s.n.], 2004. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/259104.
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Orientador: Furio DamianiDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Elétrica e de Computação
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Resumo: Um levantamento detalhado dos trabalhos em composição computacional será apresentado. Um algoritmo de composição e performance em tempo real de solos de jazz foi criado, inspirado no estilo bebop. Técnicas utilizadas por músicos de bebop durante os seus improvisos foram implementadas usando-se várias regras. Um novo modelo estocástico, baseado no raciocínio de um músico durante o seu solo, escolhe a saída do algoritmo. O usuário pode avaliar a saída do algoritmo em tempo-real, e isto será utilizado em um processo de aprendizado supervisionado para modificar os parâmetros do modelo estocástico. Algumas amostras de saídas do algoritmo serão mostradas, junto com as conclusões
Abstract: An extensive review of the most prominent works in the field of computer music is presented. A real-time algorithm for composition and performance of jazz solos in the style of bebop was created. Techniques that bebop musicians use on their solos were implemented using several rules. A new stochastic model, inspired by the thinking of a musician during his solo chooses the algorithm output. The user evaluates the algorithm output in real-time, and this input is used in a supervised learning process to change the stochastic model parameters. Samplings of the algorithm output are shown, along with concluding remarks
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Eletrônica, Microeletrônica e Optoeletrônica
Mestre em Engenharia Elétrica
Books on the topic "Musical composition; jazz"
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Sussman, Richard. Jazz composition and arranging in the digital age. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
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Boras, Tom. Jazz composition and arranging. Belmont, CA: Thomson/Schirmer, 2005.
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Ron, Miller. Modal jazz composition & harmony. Rottenburg/N., Germany: Advance Music, 1992.
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David, Baker. David Baker's Arranging & composing: For the small ensemble, jazz, R & B, jazz-rock. Van Nuys, CA: Alfred Pub. Co., 1988.
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Rick, Mattingly, ed. Jazz composition: Theory and practice. Boston, MA: Berklee Press, 2003.
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White, Andrew Nathaniel. A treatise on jazz composition. Washington, D.C: Andrew's Music, 1985.
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Coker, Jerry. Guide to jazz composition and arranging. [Rottenburg?]: Advance Music, 1998.
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Evans, Bill. The last compositions: Piano solos and leadsheets. New York, NY: Ludlow Music, 1991.
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Kessler, Dietrich. Neue Musiklehre & Songcomposing: Klassik, Jazz, Blues, Rock. Berlin: KDM., 1993.
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Exploratory musicism: Ideas for spontaneous composition. Binghamton, N.Y: Global Academic Pub., 2009.
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Nam, Yong-Wook, and Yong-Hyuk Kim. "Automatic Jazz Melody Composition Through a Learning-Based Genetic Algorithm." In Computational Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design, 217–33. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16667-0_15.
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Williams, James Gordon. "Unified Fragmentation: Andrew Hill’s Street Theory of Black Musical Space." In Crossing Bar Lines, 131–52. University Press of Mississippi, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496832108.003.0006.
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This chapter examines Andrew Hill’s philosophical approach to improvisation based on a textual analysis of his unfinished theoretical treatise called Project Acculturation (1994) found amongst Hill’s papers in his archives at the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University. At the heart of Hill’s theory is a pedagogical paradigm he called “street approach to jazz improvisation.” Hill wanted institutional music curriculum to acculturate to the ways of learning that had shaped his musical approaches that extends from his experiences as a young musician in the Chicago Black jazz clubs, where he was encompassed by feeling of Black sociality. This is a feeling which he says is missing in what he calls white jazz. This chapter claims scholarship on Hill has largely focused on analyzing his compositional and improvisational analysis because he resisted musical and political categories. Hill’s musical approach to musical space in his composition “Malachi” (2006) is analyzed.
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Loza, Steven. "From a Musical Point of View." In The Jazz Pilgrimage of Gerald Wilson, 107–58. University Press of Mississippi, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496816023.003.0008.
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This chapter presents a diverse selection of musical profiles reflecting Wilson's evolution in musical style, composition, and arranging. One of the most salient features of Wilson's music is that of innovation. His innovative character was not limited to his constantly evolving musical style but also to his creative relationships to cultural traditions (many outside the jazz world, to the media), racial integration, education, and the performance context. For many years, Wilson made it clear that his band did not rely on rehearsals, and that when he recorded he wanted to keep the music as spontaneous as possible. This certainly did not equate into his recordings matching his live performance in experience, effect, or executions, for better or worse; however, he had always felt that he came close.
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Williams, James Gordon. "The Social Science Music of Terri Lyne Carrington." In Crossing Bar Lines, 71–104. University Press of Mississippi, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496832108.003.0004.
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This chapter explores the music, life, and institutional building of drummer, feminist, and artistic director for the Berklee Institute for Jazz and Gender Justice, Terri Lyne Carrington. Through and examination of her cultural work, this chapter discusses Carrington’s attack on patriarchy in jazz culture through Black feminist thought reflected in her musical practices. Her work exposes the irony of the Black aesthetic values of inclusion at the foundation of African American improvised music in contrast with the patriarchal practice of marginalizing women improvisers. Carrington’s musical arrangement of Bernice Johnson Reagon’s composition “Echo” on The Mosaic Project (2011) is analyzed as linked critique of anti-blackness over and several compositions on Terri Lyne Carrington and Social Science (2019) are analyzed as an intersectional critique of police brutality, gay conversion therapy, celebration of Black feminism, and gender inequity represented respectively in “Bells (Ring Loudly),” “Pray the Gay Away,” “Anthem,” and “Purple Mountains.”
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Iddon, Martin, and Philip Thomas. "Situating the Concert for Piano and Orchestra." In John Cage's Concert for Piano and Orchestra, 11–55. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190938475.003.0002.
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This chapter provides the background and the conditions for the composition of the Concert for Piano and Orchestra. It discusses, on the basis of sketch material, how Cage composed the predecessor pieces, Music for Piano and Winter Music. It discusses the hidden influence of Cage’s teacher, Schoenberg, on his thinking about musical process, and details Cage’s imperfect, but significant, knowledge of jazz.
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Loza, Steven. "From the Seventies On." In The Jazz Pilgrimage of Gerald Wilson, 74–98. University Press of Mississippi, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496816023.003.0006.
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This chapter highlights Wilson's consistent, progressive development during the second part of his career that encompassed various phases and explorations, including active work in media and education. From the early 1970s, Wilson's musical culture and impact have diversified. During this time, his role expanded well beyond that of bandleader, arranger, and composer, as he entered the realms of symphonic composition, radio, and education while all the time maintaining his principal vocation of composing, arranging, recording, concertizing, and keeping his orchestra together. During the early years of the decade of the 1970s, Wilson was offered an opportunity for a commission to compose a piece for the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He also began to teach courses on the history of jazz at a number of different universities in the Los Angeles area.
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Smith, Steven C. "Stairway to Paradise." In Music by Max Steiner, 45–54. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190623272.003.0004.
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In November 1914, Max Steiner arrived in New York City, with little money and few prospects. This chapter details another formative time in Steiner’s life: his ascent from a struggling Tin Pan Alley music copyist to successful Broadway conductor. It also details his first professional experience with cinema (then silent), as musical supervisor and composer for a chain of New York theaters owned by William Fox. Steiner’s gregariousness and his gift for quick problem-solving led to work with celebrated composer Victor Herbert. Steiner also formed friendships with rising talents like Jerome Kern, Oscar Levant, and George Gershwin. Stage hits like the Gershwin-scored George White’s Scandals expanded Steiner’s musical language, which was fundamentally European, to include American jazz. However, his own attempt to write a Broadway show—1923’s Peaches—was a failure, discouraging him for a time from further composition.
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Haroutounian, Joanne. "Talent as Creativity." In Kindling the Spark. Oxford University Press, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195129489.003.0011.
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It was a few minutes past four on a Thursday, and I knew Andrew had arrived for a piano lesson. He bounded down the stairs, arrived at the piano bench with a thud, propped his dog-eared manuscript book on the piano, and looked at me with his determined “let’s get started” smile—a delightfully talented young man of 15 about to share his latest composition with a welcome audience of one. He asked, “Do you know the speech from Julius Caesar, ‘It must be by his death?’” I was unfamiliar with this bit of Shakespeare. He then dramatically went through the well-memorized speech, turning a bit red in the face as he shared this unfamiliar type of performance with his piano teacher. He motioned to his scribbled score, hands on the keyboard. “And this is also the speech.” He then began his composition, peppering the performance with “this is fate” or “B-flat is death” to explain his motivic creative connections. The piece ended with a low B-flat repeatedly resonating as it died away (smorzando). The musical creative process involves realizing sounds internally and communicating them to others in a unique way. Andrew discovered a personal way to interpret and communicate Shakespeare through the language of music. When we think of creative music-makers, we immediately envision the inspired composer, scrawling creative ideas on paper. We also recognize the jazz musician who jams through the night, improvising at will. On a simpler plane, the young child in musical play is spontaneously creating through sound. These are the generative music-makers, creating music from scratch. In the preceding chapter, we examined the creative-interpretive process of a musician who performs music from a written score. This deliberate decision-making process requires constant internal perceptive/cognitive manipulations (metaperception) to discover how to express a personal emotion through sound. The resulting creative interpretation communicates sounds that describe the expressive intent of the musician. The performer is the creative interpreter of music. If we expand our perspective further, the person who listens perceptively and can communicate the idea of these sounds through words also shows musically creative talent.
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Weiser, Nick. "Teaching Jazz Standards." In Teaching School Jazz, 245–56. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190462574.003.0022.
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The issue of teaching jazz standards is fraught with questions. What are “standards?” What makes a composition a standard? Why do jazz musicians use them as vehicles for improvisation? How are greater standards distinguished from lesser standards? How does one select particular standards to suit the needs of students? This chapter provides strategies for learning and internalizing the core jazz repertoire. It provides historical context to the development and evolution of the jazz standard canon, looking to the songbook folios of the great American tunesmiths and to original and seminal recordings as sources for the study of this music. Emphasis is given to the practical issues of selecting age- and skill-level-appropriate tunes; memorizing melodies, chord progressions, and lyrics (as applicable) in multiple keys; and devising improvisational exercises specific to individual compositions.
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Martin, Henry. "Introduction." In Charlie Parker, Composer, 1–34. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190923389.003.0001.
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The introduction begins with a discussion of the nature of jazz composition, advancing the view that improvisations can sometimes become compositions. The concept of an authoritative recording is discussed, that is, that a recording with sufficient properties may instantiate a composition in lieu of an officially notated version. The book’s method of listing and categorizing Parker compositions then follows. For the latter, Parker’s compositions are divided into seven groups, which proceed from fully composed 32-bar pieces to those works with minimal music. This final group also includes improvised pieces. The introduction ends by citing significant prior studies and explaining the book’s analytical approaches.