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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"bebop"”.
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The jazz piano style : a comparative study of bebop, post-bebop and modern players
… Thomas Owens, for example, discusses the bebop style in 'Bebop, The Music and the Players' (Owens, 1995). He mentions most of the key players for each instrument and discusses their respective stylistic traits. The work is very informative from an overall perspective but serves only to …
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Stan Getz: Forgotten Bebop Tenor Saxophonist
Within the discussion of bebop being an evolution vs. a revolution, Stan Getz’s contributions as a tenor saxophonist have been underappreciated. In 1951, Getz demonstrated an improvisational vocabulary that was a fusion of his swing era style, inspired by the melodic conception of Lester Young, and …
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Teaching jazz harmony through an understanding of bebop
The approach used to explain functional harmony in this thesis, combines the two views on harmony, horizontal and vertical. In this respect, it is an attempt to bridge the two worlds, classical and jazz. Pedagogy in these disciplines has been advancing as two parallel lines that would seemingly …
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Post-war Britain’s First Youth Subculture: The Bebop Scene in Soho, 1945–1950
In late 1945 to early 1946, bebop, also known as re-bop and modern jazz, migrated across the Atlantic from New York City to Soho, London, where it was reproduced and rearticulated by a racially diverse bunch of musicians in gritty basement clubs. This thesis maps the emergence of this scene by …
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Sidewinder syndrome : improvisational vocabulary and construction of Richard "Blue" Mitchell and Lee Morgan
… harmonic generalization elements included bebop scale, 3-b9 movement, linear chromaticism, and tri-tone substitution / altered dominant. Vocal inflections derived from gospel music and urban blues were the half-valve, grace note, alternate fingerings, note bending, and fall. Bebop …
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Graduate Recital Trombone
… the trombone in the genre of jazz ranging from Bebop to the current contemporary style of jazz. I will also play an original piece that will seemingly portray the many styles of music that have effected my musical development.
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Graduate Recital, Trumpet
… skills in Jazz idioms such as swing, bebop, waltz and ballad playing. My program aims to showcase these skills. Additionally, I am including studies from my Performance Paper (Elements of Musical Vision: The Music of Frank Zappa) by performing an original composition that aims to take …
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Breaking Sound Barriers: Reading the Jazz Novel as a Model for More Flexible Social Interaction in a Globalized World
… identity in the subgenre he helped establish – bebop. In the reciprocal of my reading of Invisible Man, I argue that Kay combines "American" bebop rhythms beneath a uniquely Scottish voice, moving the setting and characters beyond the United States and more fully demonstrating the global …
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Breaking Sound Barriers: Reading the Jazz Novel as a Model for More Flexible Social Interaction in a Globalized World
… identity in the subgenre he helped establish – bebop. In the reciprocal of my reading of Invisible Man, I argue that Kay combines "American" bebop rhythms beneath a uniquely Scottish voice, moving the setting and characters beyond the United States and more fully demonstrating the global …
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Graduate Recital, Piano
… styles of jazz such as ‘swing', ‘modal', and ‘bebop'. In doing so, this will allow me to demonstrate a variety of ways to play and improvise over the various songs adding to the listener experience of the recital. The recital will also include improvisational solos by other combo members …
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Scalability Analysis and Optimization for Large-Scale Deep Learning
… by up to 65-fold on 9,216 CPUs of the Blues and Bebop supercomputers at Argonne National Laboratory. Our second study deals with the computational imbalance problem in data processing. For most DL systems, the simultaneous and asynchronous execution of multiple data-processing components on …
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Pareidolia for Clarinet / Tenor Saxophone, Percussion / Drum Set, Piano / Synthesizers, String Quartet, and Electronics; Implied Reharmonizations in Postbop Improvisations over the Twelve-Bar Blues
… from the very beginnings of the idiom, to bebop, to postbop, and more recently jazz-fusion. With the use of chromatic approach tones and superimposition of non-diatonic scales and upper structure triads, the vocabulary of jazz improvisation expanded the tonal scope of solos. Within the …
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Improvising pianists : aspects of keyboard technique and musical structure in free jazz - 1955-1980
… in opposition to the prevailing traditions of bebop and contemporary notated music with special reference to three influential pianists: Herbie Nichols, Lennie Tristano and Thelonius Monk. Chapter 2 is concerned with new concepts in overall form, while Chapter 3 takes a closer look at the …
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This fact which is not one: differential poetics in transatlantic american modernism
… simply an illustration of black modernity with a bebop soundtrack, but a record of the emergence of modern blackness freed from American capitalist narratives of progress to tell modernity in its own terms. Jack Spicer's practice of dictation becomes more than alien transmissions reaching a poet …
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Rock Becomes Jazz: Interpretations of Popular Music by Improvising Artists in the 1960s
… popularity of jazz, in decline since the rise of bebop in the mid-1940s, was further eroded by rock and roll’s rise to prominence in the mid-1950s. By the mid-1960s, the jazz world seemed to be faced with a choice: adapt to accommodate the burgeoning new genre or risk fading further into popular …
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Towards expressive mobile robots
Given the increase in robotic systems for the household, it is imperative to design the expressive modes of these systems, that in turn engender likability, animacy, acceptance, trust and adoption. This paper approaches this problem by proposing a design methodology that can be used to abstract …
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Joe Chambers: musical style and concept, 1964 — 1973
This dissertation discusses the postbob-drumming contributions of percussionist, composer and educator Joe Chambers. The analysis of his musical style and concept will focus on the period between his 1964 recording debut with Freddie Hubbard and his first album as a bandleader in 1973. This period …