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“Resolve…Return” suite for jazz big band: an application of twentieth-century set-class concepts in jazz composition
Washington State University
11/27/2023
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7273/000005519
Abstract
Using Allen Forte’s The Structure of Atonal Music, John O’Gallagher’s Twelve-Tone Improvisation: A Method for Using Tone Rows in Jazz, and Dariusz Terefenko’s Jazz Theory: from Basic to Advanced Study as sources for research, I apply twentieth-century set-class concepts in composing a suite for jazz big band, Resolve…Return. In my composition I use themes based on pitch-class sets, subsets and complements of pitch-class set themes, and tone rows built using elements from these themes. With these concepts I find new organizing principles of harmony, ways of generating material, and methods of creating coherence within a piece of music that is outside the common practice in jazz and integrate it with traditional elements of jazz. This project shows that twentieth-century set-class concepts can be successfully applied to jazz composition.
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- Title
- “Resolve…Return” suite for jazz big band
- Creators
- Prem Brosio - Washington State University, Music, School of
- Publisher
- Washington State University
- Identifiers
- 99901051540501842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Other creative works
- Course Name
- Master’s Special Problems, Directed Study and Examination; MUS 702