SKU: AP.1-ADV11207
Principles of Jazz
Composition. Composed
by Andy Jaffe.
Method/Instruction;
Reference Textbooks;
Textbook - Jazz; Theory.
Advance Music. Jazz.
Book. Advance Music
#01-ADV11207. Published
by Advance Music
(AP.1-ADV11207).
ISBN
9783892211228. UPC:
805095112078.
English.
Something
Borrowed, Something Blue
is a broad survey of the
wider principles of
harmony, form,
adaptation, and
developmental technique
underlying jazz
composition in its
various instrumental
formats. This book
examines compositions
ranging from those for
solo piano to large
ensemble, from common
forms such as blues and
32-bar song forms to
extended through-composed
pieces, to those based on
adaptations of European
classical forms such as
fugue and rondo. Such
topics as individuality
of voice, cultural and
historical influences,
the contrafact, formal
appropriation,
pantonality,
reharmonization, and the
use of counterpoint are
among those covered.
Composers represented
include a wide range of
stylists, similar to
Scott Joplin, Duke
Ellington, Thelonious
Monk, Charles Mingus,
John Coltrane, Gil Evans,
Mary Lou Williams, Herbie
Hancock, Oliver Nelson,
Hermeto Pascoal, and John
Lewis, among many others.
The extensive
bibliography,
discography, and end of
chapter assignments are
designed to provide
students and faculty at
either the undergraduate
or graduate level with a
flexible framework for
analysis of additional
compositions of their
choice, as well as a
basic set of useful
research references and
suggested compositional
projects. Some questions
the book poses are: What
formal elements and
musical characteristics
are common to the diverse
stylistic range of jazz
composition? Which of
these elements exist in
any form of musical
composition or artistic
expression, and which are
unique to composition in
the jazz tradition? How
do composers apply these
techniques in a way that
enables them to create an
individual voice within
the context of the jazz
tradition?
Chapters: Forward
* General Questions and
Principles * Motivic
Identiy and Reieration *
The Blues * Harmony *
Form * Compositional Uses
of Rhythm *
Appropriatiion and
Adaption * Analysis of
Selected Compositions *
Index * Glossary *
Bibliography *
Discography * Copyright
Notices *
Acknowledgements of.
