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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"jazz guitar"”.
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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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Production and evaluation of a self-instructional method for teaching jazz guitar
… evaluation of a self-instructional method for jazz guitar. The method was designed to teach chords, scales and arpeggios to jazz guitarists enrolled in a university music program. A second purpose in the design was to create a method which focuses on presenting this information in a manner …
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Phrasing and polyrhythm in contemporary jazz guitar: a portfolio of recorded performances and exegesis.
… of rhythmic devices by two pivotal contemporary jazz guitarists, John Abercrombie and Gilad Hekselman. An in depth examination of phrasing (Chapter One) and polyrhythm (Chapter Two) are underpinned by transcriptions by the author of Abercrombie's Straight Flight (1979), Hekselman's entire …
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Metamorphosis: An Original Jazz Guitar Concerto Exploring Improvisation and Polystylistic Strategies in the Modern Concerto
<p>The electric guitar is underutilized in large ensemble art music. Some composers have sought to alleviate this deficiency by expanding the literature through the electric guitar concerto. Few electric guitar concerti are written for improvised jazz guitar, therefore presenting a need for this …
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Johnny Smith: Melodic Interpretation and Improvisational Techniques
… style of one of the most important figures in jazz guitar history.
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The composition of concert music within the Digital Audio Workstation environment.
… context of the research project: Variances for jazz guitar, piano, percussion and indeterminate ensemble; Rapprochement for microtonal ensemble; Transits for bass flute, eight voices and electronics; Shutterspeed for clarinet and soundtrack; and Fossils for piano and live electronics. For each …
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Johnny Fourie: Once upon a time, an artistic life
Johnny Fourie is one of the greatest guitar players of our époque (McLaughlin quoted in Crossley, 2007:iii). This study looks at Fourie's later approach to the interpretation of three selected representative works from his recording Once Upon A Time. Although there is biographical detail available, …
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A study of Bill Frisell through Paul Motian's On Broadway recordings
… Motian while simultaneously examining Frisell’s guitar technique and his musical influences. The analysis of his solos on Motian’s album draw from a selection of twenty transcriptions with a focus on five elements: 1) Controlled Dissonance, 2) Syncopation, 3) Melody, Sequencing and Cells, 4) Note …
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The application of Konokol to guitar improvisation and composition
… is on my personal application of konokol to the guitar both through composed and improvised music. A detailed study of konokol was undertaken through private lessons in India and personal experimentation to determine how these concepts could be adapted to Western improvisation, harmony and …