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 never meet. Prejudices on both sides, fuelled by ignorance, have led musicians to view classical music as 'serious' and jazz as being a form of 'light' music. This has an obvious negative effect on any attempt to bring about some coherent educational programme that will address the common aspects shared by these two musical worlds. This theis will address concepts in classical harmony and show how these can be used for the understanding of jazz harmony. The syle in jazz know as 'bepop' will be the focus of this study since it can be looked upon as the 'Baroque era' of jazz.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

College of Music

Year dc:date.issued

2008

Author dc:creator

• Narunsky, Michael Dan

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Rossi, Mike

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8150

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/8150