Selected Compostions 1999 2008 Of Vijay Iyer

Author : VIJAY IYER
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781619110021

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Selected Compostions 1999-2008 of Vijay Iyer by VIJAY IYER Pdf

Vijay Iyer is one of the most significant contemporary composers and performers on the piano. This manuscript represents a compilation of small group compositions by Iyer during a period from 1999 through 2008. the bulk of the pieces were originally written for Vijay's quartet with altoist Rudresh Mahanthappa, bassist Stephan Crump, and drummers Marcus Gilmore, Tyshawn Sorey, and Derrek Phillips, and documented on the albums Panoptic Modes (2001), Blood Sutra (2003), Reimagining (2005), and Tragicomic (2008). the music features experimentation on rhythmic techniques, harmony, orchestration, soloing structures, and macro-form, with an overriding focus on sound and feel. This volume contains contrasting compositional approaches so as to give the reader insight into the broad spectrum of compositional language and devices employed by Iyer.

Author : GAIL SMITH
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781610650434

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Native American Songs for Piano Solo by GAIL SMITH Pdf

A truly fresh and exciting book of piano solos featuring authentic Native American melodies. the history of the American Indian is sometimes a sad drama, yet is filled with a wonder reflected in music. This book, the result of extensive research by the outstanding educator, composer and musicologist, Gail Smith, conveys music that is truly American. Easy to intermediate in difficulty.

Author : Ajay Heble,Jesse Stewart
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780472903757

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Jamming the Classroom by Ajay Heble,Jesse Stewart Pdf

Drawing on a mix of collaborative autoethnography, secondary literature, interviews with leading improvisers, and personal anecdotal material, Jamming the Classroom discusses the pedagogy of musical improvisation as a vehicle for teaching, learning, and enacting social justice. Heble and Stewart write that to “jam the classroom” is to argue for a renewed understanding of improvisation as both a musical and a social practice; to activate the knowledge and resources associated with improvisational practices in an expression of noncompliance with dominant orders of knowledge production; and to recognize in the musical practices of aggrieved communities something far from the reaches of conventional forms of institutionalized power, yet something equally powerful, urgent, and expansive. With this definition of jamming the classroom in mind, Heble and Stewart argue that even as improvisation gains recognition within mainstream institutions (including classrooms in universities), it needs to be understood as a critique of dominant institutionalized assumptions and epistemic orders. Suggesting a closer consideration of why musical improvisation has been largely expunged from dominant models of pedagogical inquiry in both classrooms and communities, this book asks what it means to theorize the pedagogy of improvised music in relation to public programs of action, debate, and critical practice.

Author : PAUL T. SMITH
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781609749194

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Jazz Exercises for the Piano, Volume 1 by PAUL T. SMITH Pdf

A musically enjoyable, jazz-oriented study book designed to develop stylistic taste and left- and right-hand techniques. the audio download link for purchasers of this edition is a stereo listening recording featuring Paul Smith's swinging rendition of each study.

Author : John J. Sheinbaum
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780226593418

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Good Music by John J. Sheinbaum Pdf

Over the past two centuries Western culture has largely valorized a particular kind of “good” music—highly serious, wondrously deep, stylistically authentic, heroically created, and strikingly original—and, at the same time, has marginalized music that does not live up to those ideals. In Good Music, John J. Sheinbaum explores these traditional models for valuing music. By engaging examples such as Handel oratorios, Beethoven and Mahler symphonies, jazz improvisations, Bruce Springsteen, and prog rock, he argues that metaphors of perfection do justice to neither the perceived strengths nor the assumed weaknesses of the music in question. Instead, he proposes an alternative model of appreciation where abstract notions of virtue need not dictate our understanding. Good music can, with pride, be playful rather than serious, diverse rather than unified, engaging to both body and mind, in dialogue with manifold styles and genres, and collaborative to the core. We can widen the scope of what music we value and reconsider the conventional rituals surrounding it, while retaining the joys of making music, listening closely, and caring passionately.

Author : Dr Laudan Nooshin
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780754607038

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Iranian Classical Music by Dr Laudan Nooshin Pdf

This book interrogates musicological discourses of creativity from the perspective of critical theory and postcolonial studies, examining their ideological underpinnings and the relationships of alterity which they sustain. The repertoire which forms the book’s main focus is Iranian classical music, a tradition in which the performer plays a central creative role. Addressing a number of central issues regarding the nature of musical creativity, the author explores both the discourses through which ideas about creativity are constructed, exchanged and negotiated within this tradition, and the practices by which new music comes into being.

Author : Nate Chinen
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781101873496

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Playing Changes by Nate Chinen Pdf

One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, GQ, Billboard, JazzTimes In jazz parlance, “playing changes” refers to an improviser’s resourceful path through a chord progression. In this definitive guide to the jazz of our time, leading critic Nate Chinen boldly expands on that idea, taking us through the key changes, concepts, events, and people that have shaped jazz since the turn of the century—from Wayne Shorter and Henry Threadgill to Kamasi Washington and Esperanza Spalding; from the phrase “America’s classical music” to an explosion of new ideas and approaches; from claims of jazz’s demise to the living, breathing scene that exerts influence on mass culture, hip-hop, and R&B. Grounded in authority and brimming with style, packed with essential album lists and listening recommendations, Playing Changes takes the measure of this exhilarating moment—and the shimmering possibilities to come.

Author : George Lewis,Benjamin Piekut
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780195370935

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The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies by George Lewis,Benjamin Piekut Pdf

V. 1. Cognitions -- v. 2. Critical theories

Author : George E. Lewis,Benjamin Piekut
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190627966

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The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies, Volume 1 by George E. Lewis,Benjamin Piekut Pdf

Improvisation informs a vast array of human activity, from creative practices in art, dance, music, and literature to everyday conversation and the relationships to natural and built environments that surround and sustain us. The two volumes of the Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies gather scholarship on improvisation from an immense range of perspectives, with contributions from more than sixty scholars working in architecture, anthropology, art history, computer science, cognitive science, cultural studies, dance, economics, education, ethnomusicology, film, gender studies, history, linguistics, literary theory, musicology, neuroscience, new media, organizational science, performance studies, philosophy, popular music studies, psychology, science and technology studies, sociology, and sound art, among others.

Author : MISHA V. STEFANUK
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781609743154

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Jazz Piano Chords by MISHA V. STEFANUK Pdf

This informative volume provides a chord reference for any pianist wanting to learn to play jazz. Starting with the most basic intervals, the text explains how chords are built and how they are used in different performance settings. After covering the basics, advanced chord types such as 9ths, 11ths, 13ths, drop voicings, and the blues chord are presented and explained. the functions of chords are described, as are substitutions, clusters, and polytonal clusters. Numerous charts are provided which can be helpful for practicing and for quick and easy reference as to which can be used with given bass notes. the Melody Harmonization Charts show chords based on fourths. Learning to use these chords will help the pianist play with more harmonic variety, color, and interest.Check out the All About Jazz Review.

Author : Irène Deliège
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Communication in music
ISBN : UCSD:31822036956282

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Narrative in Music and Interaction by Irène Deliège Pdf

Author : Jürgen E. Grandt
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780820354354

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Gettin' Around by Jürgen E. Grandt Pdf

Gettin' Around examines how the global jazz aesthetic strives, in various ways, toward an imaginative reconfiguration of a humanity that transcends entrenched borders of ethnicity and nationhood, while at the same time remaining keenly aware of the exigencies of history. Jürgen E. Grandt deliberately refrains from a narrow, empirical definition of jazz or of transnationalism and, true to the jazz aesthetic itself, opts for a broader, more inclusive scope, even as he listens carefully and closely to jazz's variegated soundtrack. Such an approach seeks not only to avoid the museal whiff of a "golden age, time past" but also to broaden the appeal and the applicability of the overall critical argument. For Grandt, "international" simply designates currents of people, ideas, and goods between distinct geopolitical entities or nation-states, whereas "transnational" refers to liminal dynamics that transcend preordained borderlines occurring above, below, beside, or along the outer contours of nation-states. Gettin' Around offers a long overdue consideration of the ways in which jazz music can inform critical practice in the field of transnational (American) studies and grounds these studies in specifically African American cultural contexts.

Author : Zoltan Varga
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000538472

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The Acoustic Self in English Modernism and Beyond by Zoltan Varga Pdf

Drawing on the analogy between musical meaning-making and human subjectivity, this book develops the concept of the acoustic self, exploring the ways in which musical characterization and structure are related to issues of subject-representation in the modernist English novel. The volume is framed around three musical topics—the fugue, absolute music, and Gesamtkunstwerk—arguing that these three modes of musicalization address modernist dilemmas around selfhood and identity. Varga reflects on the manifestations of the acoustic self in examples from the works of E.M. Forster, Aldous Huxley, and Virginia Woolf, and such musicians as Bach, Beethoven, Handel, and Wagner. An additional chapter on jazz and electronic music supplements these inquiries, pursuing the acoustic self beyond modernism and thereby inciting further discussion and theorization of musical intermediality, as well as recent sonic practices. Probing the analogies in the complex interrelationship between music, representation, and language in fictional texts and the nature of human subjectivity, this book will appeal to students and scholars interested in the interface of language and music, in such areas as intermediality, multimodality, literary studies, critical theory, and modernist studies.

Author : Bill Beuttler
Publisher : Lever Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781643150055

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Make It New by Bill Beuttler Pdf

As jazz enters its second century it is reasserting itself as dynamic and relevant. Boston Globe jazz writer and Emerson College professor Bill Beuttler reveals new ways in which jazz is engaging with society through the vivid biographies and music of Jason Moran, Vijay Iyer, Rudresh Mahanthappa, The Bad Plus, Miguel Zenón, Anat Cohen, Robert Glasper, and Esperanza Spalding. These musicians are freely incorporating other genres of music into jazz—from classical (both western and Indian) to popular (hip-hop, R&B, rock, bluegrass, klezmer, Brazilian choro)—and other art forms as well (literature, film, photography, and other visual arts). This new generation of jazz is increasingly more international and is becoming more open to women as instrumentalists and bandleaders. Contemporary jazz is reasserting itself as a force for social change, prompted by developments such as the Black Lives Matter, #MeToo movements, and the election of Donald Trump.

Author : Rahul K. Gairola,Sharanya Jayawickrama
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351378994

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Memory, Trauma, Asia by Rahul K. Gairola,Sharanya Jayawickrama Pdf

The contributors to this volume re-think established insights of memory and trauma theory and enrich those studies with diverse Asian texts, critically analyzing literary and cultural representations of Asia and its global diasporas. They broaden the scope of memory and trauma studies by examining how the East/ West binary delimits horizons of "trauma" by excluding Asian texts. Are memory and trauma always reliable registers of the past that translate across cultures and nations? Are supposedly pan-human experiences of suffering disproportionately coloured by eurocentric structures of region, reason, race, or religion? How are Asian texts and cultural producers yet viewed through biased lenses? How might recent approaches and perspectives generated by Asian literary and cultural texts hold purchase in the 21st century? Critically meditating on such questions, and whether existing concepts of memory and trauma accurately address the histories, present states, and futures of the non-Occidental world, this volume unites perspectives on both dominant and marginalized sites of the broader Asian continent. Contributors explore the complex intersections of literature, history, ethics, affect, and social justice across East, South, and Southeast Asia, and on Asian diasporas in Australia and the USA. They draw on yet diverge from "Orientalism" and "Area Studies" given today’s need for nuanced analytical methodologies in an era defined by the COVID-19 global pandemic. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars invested in memory and trauma studies, comparative Asian studies, diaspora and postcolonial studies, global studies, and social justice around contemporary identities and 20th and 21st century Asia.