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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Big Band"”.
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South African Jazz Big Band: Methodological approaches from selected composers, arrangers and directors
… is to document the processes of directing a jazz big band for successful performance within a South African context. The initial research conducted proved fruitful from an international perspective in that several interviews were held and texts were written; however, not much could be said from a …
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Revisiting the early format of the big band: So you want to be a band leader?
… and find opportunities for paid employment for big band situations. Aspects of New Orleans brass bands, the Duke Ellington's and Count Basie's Orchestra's will be investigated to determine if and how the concepts of their styles can be adapted to my own music to create something valid for …
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Looking Back to the Future: The South African Big Band Jazz Aesthetic Curating the South African Jazz Songbook for Jazz Orchestra
… the question of what defines South African big band and orchestral jazz. Further focal questions were explored, specifically the questions of how South African jazz is distinguished from other approaches to jazz, and what characteristics South African jazz shares with global and American big …
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Compositional elements in the music of Ken Schaphorst: A detailed analysis of four works for jazz ensemble
… the interpretation of sonata form in big band jazz composition, the mechanics of creating extended solo features, effective groove changes that aid development, unique voicings and instrument pairing choices, and other innovative musical devices. This research aims to prove informative …
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George Russell's Jazz Workshop: The Composer's Style and Original Methods of 1956
… blues, swing, and improvisation; conventions of big band arranging; the Afro-Latin influence; and popular song form. But his music also makes use of ideas that were rare in jazz at that time, such as suite form, dissonant counterpoint, pantonality, and the modal (scalar) approach to composition …
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What Makes Nikolai Kapustin's Classically-oriented Works Sound Like Jazz Improvisation by Deconstruction of His 24 Preludes in Jazz Style, Op.53 and Concert Etudes, Op.40
… focus on keyboard literature, chamber music, and big band music. Despite Kapustin's music sounding similar to jazz music and jazz improvisation, he historically denied the role of jazz in his compositions and saw himself only as a classical musician. This document will start an investigation into …
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Effects of visual performance presentations on student perceptions of the elements of music
… (©1987). Two excerpts in Jazz style (big band) and two in Classical style (symphony orchestra) were presented in random order to each of the treatment groups. The experimental group was presented a videotaped music performance of each excerpt while the control group was presented only …
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THE COMMISSIONED FLUTE CHOIR PIECES PRESENTED BY UNIVERSITY/COLLEGE FLUTE CHOIRS AND NFA SPONSORED FLUTE CHOIRS AT NATIONAL FLUTE ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONVENTIONS WITH A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE FLUTE CHOIR AND ITS REPERTOIRE
… Collegiate, High School, and Jazz Flute Big Band, and a Masterclass Competition. These competitions provide opportunities for flutists ranging from amateurs to professionals. University/college flute choirs perform original manuscripts, arrangements and transcriptions, as well as the …
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George Russell's Jazz Workshop: The Composer's Style and Original Methods of 1956
… as a composer and his first experience as a bandleader. From 1947 through 1949 he had composed big band music for Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Buddy DeFranco, and Artie Shaw. From 1950 through 1953, he then took time away from composing to develop his theoretical foundation, ultimately …
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Respectability and The Modern Jazz Quartet; Some Cultural Aspects of Its Image and Legacy As Seen Through the Press
… performed together in Dizzy Gillespie’s big band in 1946.1 Lewis (1920-2005), Jackson (1923-1999), Brown (1926- 2002), and Clarke (1914-1985) first recorded as a group, calling themselves the Milt Jackson Quartet, in 1951-2. By the time the first recordings of the group under the name …
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The influence of klezmer on twentieth-century solo and chamber concert music for clarinet: with three recitals of selected works of Manevich, Debussy, Horovitz, Milhaud, Martino, Mozart and others.
… 1920s. These musicians found work in klezmer bands and orchestras as well as Yiddish radio and theater. Some of the most influential klezmorim were clarinetists Naftule Brandwein and Dave Tarras who helped develop an American klezmer style. While the American style flourished, the popularity …
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Exploration, Language and Application: An Approach to Teaching Beginning Instrumental Jazz Improvisation
… is a jazz standard in a combo setting or a full big band chart; students learn to improvise in an actual performance setting, in the context of real music. These three components are used to reduce anxiety and teach improvisation in a comfortable and accessible setting, segmenting the process to …
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River : a reflective analysis of an original suite for jazz orchestra
The purpose of this thesis is to provide an analysis of the musical and non-musical elements that were used to compose RIVER, an original suite for jazz orchestra. It is also a means by which I can reflect on the process of composing a large form, multi-movement work. The challenges that a project …
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Wonderbrass: Creating a Community Through Music
Wonderbrass is a community big band that was created in 1992 through the amalgamation of two projects, Welsh Jazz Society’s Jazz Workshop Band and The Taff Ely Streetband, which was formed to perform at community carnivals around South Wales. Wonderbrass has been through numerous personnel, …
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Nostalgia, landscape, and social criticism in Brooklyn Babylon: a contemporary theatrical work by jazz composer Darcy James Argue and media artist Danijel Žeželj
… a soundtrack performed by Argue’s Secret Society Big Band. The story is of an old immigrant craftsman caught in a moral dilemma between nostalgia for the ethnic neighborhood he loves and an authoritarian mayor’s ambitions to create “the tallest building in the world.” Inspired by William …
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"Cerulean Skies" by Maria Schneider: A Formal and Semiotic Analysis
… have long been touted as hallmarks of big band composer Maria Schneider’s style. This perception is widely accepted by critics and casual commentators, but are these attributions merely metaphorical or do they speak to observable dimensions of Schneider’s compositional style? This …
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Radiohead's subterranean jazz structuralism: the music of Louis Armstrong, Alice Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Charles Mingus in ten compositions by Radiohead
… changed from being a ""Nirvana-lite"" grunge band to ""Re-Inventors of rock,"" as described by Time Magazine in 2000. Starting in 1996, Radiohead confused the industry by modeling Miles Davis’s Bitches Brew in their album OK Computer. After winning a Grammy award, their jazz inspired exodus …