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Showing 1 to 20 of 410 for “"Jazz."”.
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Jazz Music and Architecture, The Jazz Community Performance Center
The Jazz Community Performance Center explores the intersection between music and architecture. The thesis project poses the question, "How can music form architecture?" The project examines the connection of music and architecture through rhythm, harmony, melody, and form and how these elements …
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Making America's music: jazz history and the Jazz Preservation Act
… significant examples of the process by which jazz has been shaped by the music industry and government and their ideas of the place of jazz within American culture and society. The examples demonstrate that the history and traditions of jazz are not fixed entities, but rather constructions …
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Journey for Jazz
… a 32-minute documentary video, Journey for Jazz, which explores four Korean students who major in jazz at the University of North Texas in Denton. Detailed accounts of the pre-production, production, and post-production of the video guide the reader to understand the challenging and …
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Hep: Jazz Modernisms
… 1940s provide a unique perspective on commercial jazz's last gasp. For some time, the language of Harlem and its musicians had been troped in the popular press as a counter-modern force (a move critiqued by Rudolph Fisher, Eudora Welty, and others). But Mezz Mezzrow, Cab Calloway, Slim Gaillard, …
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Jazz solo transcriptions as technical and pedagogical solutions for undergraduate jazz saxophonists
… the development of saxophone technique in the jazz idiom in comparison to that in the classical idiom. Five leading jazz pedagogues were interviewed for their perspective on the current state of jazz technique development and their views on representative examples of modern jazz soloists. …
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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
… in the Royal Albert Hall, of a South African Jazz Songbook, featuring the Metropole Orkest and selected soloists, and the resulting music preparation process for the concert. The objective of this project was to provide an overview of the story and sound of South African jazz to a mainly …
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"Any rags, any jazz, any boppers today?": Jazz in New Zealand 1920-1955
This thesis explores the history of jazz in New Zealand from the 1920s to the mid–1950s, surrounding a central theme examining how New Zealanders acquired and responded to jazz. I describe how jazz, as music, dance, and popular culture, was brought to New Zealand during the period 1920–1955. In …
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An Appraisal of Collegiate Jazz Performance Programs in the Teaching of Jazz Music
… of inconsistency between learning to perform jazz in the indigenous climate as opposed to the formal realm. Discussion focused on problematic areas of administration, hiring, politics, selectivity of students, personal qualities, experiences, curriculum, and teaching methodology. In the …
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Doctoral thesis recital (jazz guitar)
All blues / Miles Davis -- Four / Miles Davis -- Flower / Gilad Hekselman -- Seven steps to heaven / Miles Davis -- Nowhere man / John Lennon, Paul McCartney -- Milestones / Miles Davis.
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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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Frost, for jazz orchestra : exploring new conceptual, harmonic, formal, and timbral approaches to jazz composition
… is a conceptual and formal analysis of a new jazz orchestra work premiered by the University of Texas Jazz Orchestra on April 13, 2019. The piece, Frost, explores new conceptual and structural devices inspired by the works and writings of various 20th century and contemporary composers from …
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South African Jazz in Frame: A creative research project exploring South African jazz through photography
… connected relationships between South African jazz musicians and South African jazz photographers through their contributions such as the images, videos and the stories behind each of the respective art forms. The research looks at the specific contributions selected photographers have made to …
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Típica Style vs. Latin Jazz: A Comparison of Traditional Salsa Piano Accompaniment and Latin Jazz Comping
… unique rhythmic style that draws influences from jazz and African rhythms. Salsa shares characteristics with Latin jazz. Traditional salsa, or típica style, features traditional tonal harmonies with few alterations, whereas Latin jazz typically employs complex harmonies including tritone …
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Afro-Cuban and Latin Jazz Compositions
… the challenges in musical compositions in Latin jazz styles. The challenges include writing music with different Afro-Cuban rhythms as well as the use of the clave as a backbeat to the melodic ideas. Also, it explores different harmonic and melodic approaches used in a composition and stylistic …
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Performing texts; playing with jazz aesthetics
<p>Despite all the critical attention jazz has received in recent years from scholars in other fields---literature, history, political science, cultural studies---very little headway has been made in understanding what jazz aesthetics are and how they might inform other forms of cultural and …
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364 Days: Suite for Jazz Orchestra
364 Days: Suite for Jazz Orchestra was composed for a standard seventeen-piece (5/4/4/4) jazz orchestra. The suite is comprised of five pieces- And I Think of You; Goodnight; What Ifs; 364 Days; The Dreamer and The Realist - and were recorded for the album J.E. Chapman, 364 Days: music for large …
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Miles Davis: The Road to Modal Jazz
… changes: the change from hard bop to modal jazz. This shift, although gradual, is best represented by and culminates in Kind of Blue, the first Davis album based on modal style, marking a clear break from hard bop. This thesis explores the motivations and reasons behind the change, and …
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