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Journal of Music Theory (2005) 49 (2): 209–239.
Published: 01 October 2005
...Karim Al-Zand IMPROVISATION AS CONTINUALLY
JUGGLED PRIORITIES: JULIAN
“CANNONBALL” ADDERLEY’S
“STRAIGHT, NO CHASER”
Karim Al-Zand
When jazz musicians improvise, they engage in at least two interre-
lated thought processes. On one...
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Journal of Music Theory (2005) 49 (2): 241–275.
Published: 01 October 2005
.... Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon Press. Lindeman, Steve. 1997–98 . “Miles's `Stella': A Comparison in the Light of the Two Quintets.” Annual Review of Jazz Studies 9 : 57 –76. Martin, Henry. 1996 . Charlie Parker and Thematic Improvisation . Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. ———. 1997–98 . “The Nature...
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Journal of Music Theory (2005) 49 (2): 277–299.
Published: 01 October 2005
..., is in agreement with most writers
on jazz in calling Johnson “an improvisationally oriented musician” (1986,
41). I argue in this article that the term “improvisation” inadequately
describes Johnson’s approach to performance. Johnson’s approach is, in
fact, not uncommon for the 1920s...
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Journal of Music Theory (2018) 62 (2): 249–278.
Published: 01 October 2018
... for Braxton 1978b . Braxton Anthony . 1979 . Alto Saxophone Improvisations 1979 . Arista A2L-8602, 331⁄3 rpm . Braxton Anthony . 1982 . For Two Pianos . Arista AL-9559, 331⁄3 rpm . Braxton Anthony . 1985 . Tri-Axium Writings . 3 vols. Lebanon, NH : Frog Peak Music...
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Published: 01 April 2021
Example 6. Transcription excerpt, South, Grappelli, and Reinhardt's improvisation to BWV 1043, mvt. 1. Reproduced from Givan 2006 : example 1 .
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Journal of Music Theory (2023) 67 (1): 99–139.
Published: 01 April 2023
... used to study the performance of music. Through case studies drawn from improvised and notated music, this article introduces the questions and methodologies by which analogous spaces for performance, which the author terms performance spaces , may be generated and analyzed. The author also considers...
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in Approximate Set Theory: Chord Categories, Voicings, and Interval Cycles
> Journal of Music Theory
Published: 01 April 2023
Figure 7.3. Improvising by alternating a hexachord's intrinsic 024 6 sets.
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in Approximate Set Theory: Chord Categories, Voicings, and Interval Cycles
> Journal of Music Theory
Published: 01 April 2023
Figure 7.5. Improvising using hexachordal 013 6 ( top ) and 012 6 ( bottom ) sets.
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Journal of Music Theory (2019) 63 (2): 231–260.
Published: 01 October 2019
...Stephen Guerra Pitch spaces such as the circle of fifths model change through time in a composition, recording, or improvisation. Metric spaces theorized over the past twenty years do the same for changes (notated or not) in meter. Trajectories in either space and their potentially reinforcing...
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Journal of Music Theory (2007) 51 (1): 51–83.
Published: 01 April 2007
...Giorgio Sanguinetti A partimento is a linear guide for the improvisation of a keyboard piece. Partimenti were developed for the training of composers in the conservatories of Naples during the eighteenth century. They contain all the information needed for the realization of complete pieces...
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Journal of Music Theory (2007) 51 (1): 85–135.
Published: 01 April 2007
... with bass accompaniment. Partimenti were instructional basses from which an apprentice was expected to re-create complete compositions at the keyboard. The prodigious mental powers developed through the study of partimenti, which greatly facilitated improvisation and composition, gave a competitive...
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Journal of Music Theory (2007) 51 (1): 161–186.
Published: 01 April 2007
...Gaetano Stella The teaching of music composition in Italy during the nineteenth century continued to make great use of partimenti . But during the course of the century, partimenti gradually lost their importance as guides to improvisation, transforming instead into blueprints for a written-out...
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Journal of Music Theory (2007) 51 (2): 333–340.
Published: 01 October 2007
... research focuses on the analysis of multimedia performance and the social implications of improvisatory practices. He is also a bassist, improviser, composer, and recording artist. Al-Zand, Karim. 2005 . “Improvisation as Continually Juggled Priorities: Julian `Cannonball' Adderley's `Straight...
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Journal of Music Theory (2011) 55 (1): 155–160.
Published: 01 April 2011
... . '' Composition versus Improvisation. '' Journal of Music Theory 49 : 241 – 75 . Owens Thomas . 1974 . ''Charlie Parker: Techniques of Improvisation.'' Ph.D. diss. , University of California–Los Angeles . Steinbeck Paul . 2007 . Review of A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM...
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Journal of Music Theory (1999) 43 (2): 283–314.
Published: 01 October 1999
... Method. Music Theory Spectrum 20 (2): 209 –241. Martin, Henry. 1996 . Charlie Parker and Thematic Improvisation . Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. Morrison, Ken. 1999 . “ A Polymetric Interpretation of the Swing Impulse: Rhythmic Stratification in Jazz .” Ph.D. diss., University...
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Journal of Music Theory (2022) 66 (2): 262–272.
Published: 01 October 2022
...) with a repertoire ( zibaldone ) of schemes that could be used and exploited in future compositions and improvisations. Gjerdingen, however, did not explain in detail how partimenti were used in Naples, or their context within the curriculum of those conservatories. It was only in 2012, with the book The Art...
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Journal of Music Theory (2013) 57 (1): 119–129.
Published: 01 April 2013
...-
bass” was almost always intended to support other players or singers. Sangui-
netti thus settles on the following definition: “A partimento is a sketch, writ-
ten on a single staff, whose main purpose is to be a guide for improvisations
of a composition...
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Journal of Music Theory (2010) 54 (1): 107–120.
Published: 01 April 2010
... improvisation, the situation of modernism is one in which “the artist cre-
ates blocks of percepts and affects, but the only law of creation is that the
compound must stand up on its own. The artist’s greatest difficulty is to make
it stand up on its own” (1991/1994, 164).1
These statements bristle...
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Journal of Music Theory (2010) 54 (1): 37–60.
Published: 01 April 2010
... Cavell into several difficulties. For one,
although Cavell elsewhere claims that modernism lays bare the possibility of
fraudulence in all art, in practice he seems to locate it firmly in the domain
of modernist music (his idiosyncratic notion of “improvisation,” assigned to
premodernist music...
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Journal of Music Theory (2020) 64 (2): 297–308.
Published: 01 October 2020
... there are no bets placed on musical outcomes. Jazz musicians do, of course, operate differently, and in varying degrees so do early music specialists, aleatoric avant-gardists, High Church organists, and others with license to improvise. But the routines of music education rarely allow for methodical instruction...
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