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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"duke ellington"”.
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Civic Sounds; A Music Conservatory for D.C
"If it sounds good, it is good." - Duke Ellington "Like music, a work acquires its value only through the love it manifests." - Eileen Gray "...but in the mud and scum of things There alway, alway something sings." - R.W. Emerson
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Me, Myself, and Mingus
… of Mingus' two primary musical influences, Duke Ellington and Charlie Parker, also occurs. The paper's second half consists of an analysis of Paul Thomas Musser's arrangements and works for quartet (""Red Tango"") and sextet (""10--500 B.C."" and ""Nardis""). Connections to Mingus' …
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Animate Structures: The Compositions and Improvisations of the Instant Composers Pool Orchestra
… for the group which draws on styles from Duke Ellington to John Cage and uses various forms of compositional and notational techniques to explore the different improvisatory possibilities that they afford, thus blurring the distinction between improvisation and composition both in name and …
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It's All Been Done
… achieves consonance. I have always admired how Duke Ellington and Maria Schneider filled their ensembles with individuals that have developed an idiosyncratic sound and language on their respective instruments. With that aesthetic in mind, It’s All Been Done was composed for a specific group of …
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The Independent Turn in Soviet-Era Russian Poetry: How Dmitry Bobyshev, Joseph Brodsky, Anatoly Naiman and Evgeny Rein Became the 'Avvakumites' of Leningrad
… here include Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Eartha Kitt, Gerry Mulligan, Valery Mysovsky, Charlie Parker, Nonna Sukhanova. In Chapter 4 I discuss how Anna Akhmatova became the culminating shaping force on the young Avvakumites. Akhmatova was a living bridge to …
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Jazz and the cultural transformation of America in the 1920s
In the early twentieth century jazz was a regionally based, racially defined dance music that featured solo and collective improvisation. Originating in New Orleans, jazz soon spread throughout the country as musicians left the South for better opportunities-both economic and social-elsewhere in …