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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
George Russell's Jazz Workshop: The Composer's Style and Original Methods of 1956
Abstract
dc:descriptionGeorge Russell's musical language touches on many familiar elements in jazz composition: practices of blues, swing, and improvisation; conventions of big band arranging; the Afro-Latin influence; and popular song form. But his music also makes use of ideas that were rare in jazz at that time, such as suite form, dissonant counterpoint, pantonality, and the modal (scalar) approach to composition and improvisation his own theory had informed. This study concludes that with the music of his 1956 Jazz Workshop period, Russell was able to integrate his pursuits of music theory, composition, and performance into a unified, original, and influential art.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- A.Mus.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Music
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2015
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Kenagy, Peter Ellis
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Teofilo Carrillo
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Rights
- Language dc:language
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (MiAaPQ)AAI3406762
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/85825