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The Horn in Relation to the Jazz Genre
04/2025
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7273/000007265
Abstract
This project explores how the horn is used in jazz music, along with different ways the jazz style is implemented in the horn repertoire. This project involves transcribing, recording, editing, and performing. This project is centered around understanding the relationships that exist between the genre of jazz and the horn. The recording element represents various components of this relationship. This recording includes five different tracks of various instrumentation. These tracks are Happy Blues by Nagy Zsolt, Wild Indigo by Thomas Bacon, Take Five by the Dave Brubeck Quartet, Suite for Horn and Piano by Alec Wilder, and Blues and Variations for Monk by David Amram. Some tracks have obtainable music, but others were transcribed or arranged myself. Two of these tracks will be transcribed or arranged. For this project, I had to learn all the music and rehearse it with the collaborating musicians on the project. After recording, the individual takes were evaluated, selected, and edited together to produce the resulting track. The goals of this project entail more advocacy and representation for the horn in jazz, learn more about transcribing and arranging for jazz, and to learn more about the recording aspect of musicianship. Also understanding the relationship between the horn and the jazz genre.
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Details
- Title
- The Horn in Relation to the Jazz Genre
- Creators
- Cassidy Lee Fairchild (Author)
- Contributors
- Martin David King (Supervisor) - Washington State University, School of Music
- Academic Unit
- Graduate Student Projects (MUS 702)
- Identifiers
- 99901206073401842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Other creative works
- Course Name
- Master’s Special Problems, Directed Study, and Examination; MUS 702