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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Modal Jazz"”.
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Miles Davis: The Road to Modal Jazz
… definitive 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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Radiohead's subterranean jazz structuralism: the music of Louis Armstrong, Alice Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Charles Mingus in ten compositions by Radiohead
… this dissertation is to define the undocumented jazz lineage of Radiohead's musical evolution that has been overlooked in the current academic discourse. Drawing on ten examples from Radiohead albums OK Computer, Kid A, Amnesiac and The King of Limbs, I hope to show their jazz structural modeling …
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Expressing South African musical sensibilities In Jazz: the cultural relevance of John Coltrane and the musical impact of Mccoy Tyner
… quartet sound” is tightly linked with the modal jazz sub-style and is marked by members' contributions such as Tyner's distinct minor, quartal and suspended harmonic voicings, Jones's extensive use of cross rhythms and dynamic intensity, Garrison's rhythmic drive and Coltrane's unique …
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Creative Intuition as a Compositional Strategy in Electroacoustic Music
… gestures within the harmonic framework of modal jazz. The compositional manipulation of time in electroacoustic music could be seen to present different challenges to the composer than those of traditional acoustic music. In considering the poetics of time in electroacoustic music I have …
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George Russell's Jazz Workshop: The Composer's Style and Original Methods of 1956
… the creative methods of his 1956 work for small jazz ensemble. This body of work consisted of twelve pieces for the RCA Victor album The Jazz Workshop: George Russell and His Smalltet and three pieces commissioned by saxophonist Hal McKusick for his own Jazz Workshop album. George Russell …