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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Jazz improvisation"”.
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Computational Modelling of Jazz Improvisation
Jazz is a highly improvised form of Western music that so far has received limited scientific attention. This is due in part both to the difficulty of analysing music for which written scores are generally not available and of crafting statistical models that are likely to be meaningful for those …
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A melody description system for jazz improvisation
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1981.
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COMPARING TRADITIONAL AND MODERN TRENDS IN JAZZ IMPROVISATION
<p>This thesis compares traditional and modern jazz improvisation through analysis. These analyses discuss various musical techniques and ideas specific to each differing era. The case studies focus on three traditional jazz standards: "Autumn Leaves," "Someday My Prince Will Come," and "Cantaloupe …
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Markov Chains as Tools for Jazz Improvisation Analysis
… technique (Markov chains) for the modeling of jazz improvisation with the intended subobjective of providing increased insight into an improviser's style and creativity through the postulation of quantitative measures of style and creativity based on the constructed Markovian analysis …
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RNN-Based Generation of Polyphonic Music and Jazz Improvisation
… of both polyphonic music, and of simulated jazz improvisation, using multiple novel data sources and the character-based recurrent neural network architecture <em>char-rnn</em>. In addition, techniques and tooling are presented aimed at using the results of the algorithmic composition to …
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Playing outside : excursions from the tonality in jazz improvisation
This thesis examines strategies employed by jazz musicians when they temporarily leave the underlying tonality whilst improvising. The Introduction defines the use of terms such as "outside" and examines texts from the literature. Further. a chronology of the evolution of "playing outside" is …
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Jazz, improvisation, and streetscapes : guidelines for in-fill development
… and engaging of the context of the streetscape? Improvisational jazz is a form of music whose practitioners seek to integrate the familiar and the novel into a unified composition. Certain practices guide performers in achieving these dynamic syntheses of new and old. These practices may provide …
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Practica: A Music Education Application for Learning Jazz Improvisation
… the subjective teaching and evaluation of improvisation in a programmatic manner. Two user studies suggest that Practica successfully presents students with an educational platform that empowers them to improve their musical abilities and explore jazz improvisation in a interactive and …
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A Phenomenological Inquiry into the Process of Teaching Jazz Improvisation
… further exploration on the relationship between jazz improvisation and creativity, this study describes the pedagogical beliefs and practices utilized by jazz educators for the teaching of improvisation as a creative process. Improvisation has been an integral feature of the jazz performance …
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Applications of Béla Bartók's techniques of pitch organisation to jazz improvisation
… generate insights into ways other musicians and jazz students may approach the work and analysis of composers such as Bartók as a source of inspiration.
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A multi-dimensional entropy model of jazz improvisation for music information retrieval.
Jazz improvisation provides a case context for examining information in music; entropy provides a means for representing music for retrieval. Entropy measures are shown to distinguish between different improvisations on the same theme, thus demonstrating their potential for representing jazz …
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Development and validation of a rating scale for wind jazz improvisation performance
… and validate a rating scale for collegiate wind jazz improvisation performance. The 14-item Wind Jazz Improvisation Evaluation Scale (WJIES) was constructed and refined through a facet-rational approach to scale development. Statements descriptive of wind jazz improvisation were collected through …
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Exploration, Language and Application: An Approach to Teaching Beginning Instrumental Jazz Improvisation
… an alternative approach to teaching beginning jazz improvisation to instrumentalists in a classroom setting. It was determined that there exists a need for an accessible (to both teacher and student) method for teaching beginning jazz improvisation to instrumentalists. This is due to the lack …
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The effectiveness of Aebersold play-along recordings for gaining proficiency in jazz improvisation
… an effective tool for becoming a more proficient jazz improviser. Participants (N=35) were undergraduate and graduate trumpet, trombone, and saxophone students enrolled in the jazz program at a mid-sized university in the mid-western United States.The study followed a pretest/posttest design in …
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Signifying on the Greeks: the use of rhetorical devices in jazz improvisation analysis
… the principles and devices of rhetoric to jazz improvisation analysis. Taken from both Western and Afrological sources, approximately four dozen rhetorical devices are defined, translated into musical figures, and applied to the transcribed solos of six jazz artists. These musicians, Lester …
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A conceptual method of learning jazz improvisation through studying the music of J. S. Bach
… exceptional source material for learning jazz improvisation. This research document has three sections. Chapter 1 is a concise review of respected jazz studies literature. Chapters 2 through 4 introduce a jazz improvisation methodology with Bach's music as its source material. The appendix …
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Mode Three of the Modes of Limited Transposition: A Model for Application in Jazz Improvisation and Composition
… from The Modes of Limited Transposition within a jazz context. While several of the accompanying modes from this set are very familiar within the jazz world, Mode Three is on the periphery. It is not part of the mainstream canon of jazz scales and there is no clarity on its function or use in …
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Night music (compositions, performance and improvisations) –and– Developing a chromatic-intervallic approach to jazz improvisation through reflexive practice. An exegesis
… in developing and applying a novel melodic jazz improvisation technique—a chromatic-intervallic approach (CIA). Improvised melodic approaches in jazz music from the 1920s until today have primarily been driven through the development of tension within melody lines by using variations of the …
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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
… who is considered a composer of classical and jazz fusion. His compositions mainly 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 …
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