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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"jazz performance"”.
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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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Aspects of Herbie Hancock’s pre-electric improvisational language and their application in contemporary jazz performance: a portfolio of recorded performances and exegesis.
… from his pre-electric era, 1961-1968, display a jazz piano style that contains a unique combination of musical elements. This submission for the degree of Master of Philosophy in Music Performance investigates the ways in which Hancock’s improvisational language of this era can successfully be …
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A Phenomenological Inquiry into the Process of Teaching Jazz Improvisation
… further exploration on the relationship between jazz improvisation and creativity, this study describes the pedagogical beliefs and practices utilized by jazz educators for the teaching of improvisation as a creative process. Improvisation has been an integral feature of the jazz performance …
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Gendered Representations of Jazz Vocal Artists: A Critical Discourse Analysis of CD and Performance Reviews, and Interviews
This study of contemporary jazz discourse and gender applies the techniques of critical discourse analysis, inspired by M.A.K. Halliday's systemic functional linguistics and Norman Fairclough's qualitative critical discourse analysis, to explicate the unequal distribution of power in society as …
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Ideals, Aesthetics, and Practices of Professionalization in the Tokyo Jazz Scene
In the early twenty-first century, jazz has a history in Japan of approximately 100 years. In contemporary Tokyo, Japanese musicians demonstrate their right to access jazz performance through a variety of musical and extra-musical techniques. Those accepted as fully professional and authentic …
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The business of live music in South Africa and the jazz musician
… industry of South Africa in relation to the jazz musician;; also what systems are in place that assist, protect the rights of, and provide for, the jazz musician (bearing in mind that most jazz musicians double as session musicians and dabble in various genres). Research will be conducted …
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Perspectives on teaching jazz piano "comping" in the college music program with sample instructional units
… and develop instructional units for teaching jazz piano comping to collegiate music students possessing basic piano skills but limited experience in jazz performance. In establishing bases and rationale for the instructional units, a number of issues were considered. These issues were (1) the …
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COMPARING TRADITIONAL AND MODERN TRENDS IN JAZZ IMPROVISATION
<p>This thesis compares traditional and modern jazz improvisation through analysis. These analyses discuss various musical techniques and ideas specific to each differing era. The case studies focus on three traditional jazz standards: "Autumn Leaves," "Someday My Prince Will Come," and "Cantaloupe …
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Phrasing and polyrhythm in contemporary jazz guitar: a portfolio of recorded performances and exegesis.
… examines, through transcription, analysis, and performance, the use 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 …
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A Historical Survey of the Euphonium and Its Future in Non-Traditional Ensembles Together with Three Recitals of Selected Works by Jan Bach, Neal Corwell, Vladimir Cosma, and Others
… has had occasional use in orchestral works, jazz, and in brass chamber groups as well. However, by the middle of the 20th century, its traditional use as an instrument of the wind band resulted in a prevailing attitude of the music world toward the euphonium as an instrument strictly for that …
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Graduate Recital, Trumpet
… the the full extent my graduate studies in Jazz Trumpet at Duquesne. Under the guidance of my teacher, Sean Jones, I developed improvisational skills in Jazz idioms such as swing, bebop, waltz and ballad playing. My program aims to showcase these skills. Additionally, I am including studies …
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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 …