The musical analysis, which is accessible to the nonspecialist, makes its own revelations--for example, that some of Coltrane's well-known pieces are based on previously unrecognized sources. The Appendix is the most detailed chronology of Coltrane's performing career ever compiled, listing scores of previously unknown performances from the s and early s.
Coltrane has become a musical inspiration for thousands of fans and musicians and a personal inspiration to as many more. For all of these, Porter's book will become the definitive resource--a reliable guide to the events of Coltrane's life and an insightful look into his musical practices.
Porter is a jazz scholar with deep knowledge of the tradition he is studying, both conceptually and technically. I applaud this definitive study of my friend John Coltrane's life adn achievements. A leading jazz scholar, he is the author of Jazz Readings fr. Modeled on Stravinsky's "Le Chant du Rossignol," this minute work for orchestra is an homage to the work and wit of Nicholas Slonimsky, the Russian eccentric literary genius who wrote The Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns , from which Adams drew scales and harmonies.
It spans forms in use before through forms and techniques in use today. Anthology of Musical Forms provides musical examples of forms treated in Structure and Style. Some examples are analyzed throughout. Most are left for the student to analyze. These books reflect Leon Stein's impressive background as student, musician, and composer.
He earned M. Mus and Ph. D degrees at DePaul University and was associated with its School of Music as director of the Graduate Division and chairman of the Department of Theory and Composition until his retirement in He has composed a wide variety of works, including compositions for orchestra, chamber combinations, two operas, and a violin concerto. The compositional techniques utilized throughout include but are not limited to transpositions of scale patterns as well as inversion and symmetry.
Still a favorite after 14 years, this book has become a standard in the field. Saxophonist Charlie Parker was one of the most innovative and influential jazz musicians of any era. As one of the architects of modern jazz often called "bebop" , Charlie Parker has had a profound effect on American music.
His music reached such a high level of melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic sophistication that saxophonists and other instrumentalists continue to study it as both a technical challenge and an aesthetic inspiration.
This revised edition of Charlie Parker: His Music and Life has been revised throughout to account for new Charlie Parker scholarship and previously unknown Parker recordings that have emerged since the book's initial publication.
The volume opens by considering current research on Parker's biography, laying out some of the contradictory accounts of his life, and setting the chronology straight where possible. It then focuses on Parker's music, tracing his artistic evolution and major achievements as a jazz improviser.
The musical discussions and transcribed musical examples include timecodes for easy location in recordings--a unique feature to this book. Artist Transcriptions. Now the intermediate-level pianist can play and study the music of this jazz giant! This collection includes 14 tunes Monk made great, arranged by T. Monk band member Ronnie Mathews. Also includes a biography, discography, performance notes and more. Modeled on Stravinsky's "Le Chant du Rossignol," this minute work for orchestra is an homage to the work and wit of Nicholas Slonimsky, the Russian eccentric literary genius who wrote The Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns , from which Adams drew scales and harmonies.
The musical material itself, the harmonies, rhythms, the timbres and tempi, are seeds you have planted. Composing, bringing forth the final formal arrangement of these elements, is often a business of watching them grow, knowing when to nourish and water them and when to prune and weed.
A musician of enormous range and technical command, Adams has built a huge audience worldwide through the immediacy and sincerity of his music, such as his Pulitzer prize-winning memorial for the September 11 attack On The Transmigration of Souls.
Hallelujah Junction isn't so much an autobiography as a fascinating journey through the musical landscape of his life and times, centred around the three highly controversial operas based on social and political issues he has written in the past twenty-five years - Nixon in China, The Death of Klinghoffer and, most recently, Dr Atomic.
The intervallic system presented in Inside Improvisation Series, Vol. Each page concentrates on three, four, or five specific intervals. Combining these intervals with all of the possibilities for moving in ascending or descending direction creates an infinite variety of very distinctive melodies.
The play-along disc includes 19 tunes and eight vamps for productive practice. Learn jazz guitar harmony in a logical, step-by-step way that is always focused on gig-ready applications. Harmony-melody relationship is explored in detail via "hands on" examples that start with simple voicings over common chord changes ii-V-I, I-vi-ii-V and others and moves on to comping over well-known jazz standards and blues.
The standards are fully notated with beautiful and lush passing chords in the style of the great guitarists. Finally, learn about the basics of jazz harmony. Skip to content. Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns. Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns for Guitar.
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