George Russell's Jazz Workshop: The Composer's Style and Original Methods of 1956
Kenagy, Peter Ellis
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Description
Title
George Russell's Jazz Workshop: The Composer's Style and Original Methods of 1956
Author(s)
Kenagy, Peter Ellis
Issue Date
2009
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Teofilo Carrillo
Department of Study
Music
Discipline
Music
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
A.Mus.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
American Studies
Language
eng
Abstract
George 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.
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