Dissertation
Creating the Cool: Understanding the Music of Gerry Mulligan
Washington State University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
01/2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7273/000005441
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/125266
Abstract
Teaching jazz requires an excellent model. It would be difficult to find a better model than Gerry Mulligan. His many compositions and recordings document the evolution of 20th century jazz like no other. With a career that encompasses work with swing bands of the 1940s, his piano-less quartets and Concert Jazz Band, to his involvement with Miles Davis and the Birth of the Cool, Gerry Mulligan represents several major movements in jazz.
Including detailed analysis of Mulligan’s orchestration, composition, and harmonic language, the reader will be given a way to utilize Mulligan’s music as an example for jazz education. By understanding how his pieces are written, both students and teachers can better assess the style points and performance practices of jazz music. With historical and biographical information to help readers understand Gerry Mulligan as a person and educational models for use with students, this dissertation will give educators a solid tool for understanding and explaining jazz composition.
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Details
- Title
- Creating the Cool: Understanding the Music of Gerry Mulligan
- Creators
- David William Larsen
- Contributors
- Greg W Yasinitsky (Advisor)Robert McCoy (Committee Member)Danh Pham (Committee Member)Tariq Akmal (Committee Member)Keri McCarthy (Committee Member)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Graduate School
- Theses and Dissertations
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University
- Number of pages
- 373
- Identifiers
- 99900592257801842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Dissertation