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Jazz harmony: pitch-class set genera, transformation, and practical music

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dc.contributor.authorRichards, William
dc.date.accessioned2014-10-07
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-27T01:13:16Z
dc.date.available2022-05-27T01:13:16Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.descriptionPresented on June 1, 2012 at The Canadian University Music Society Conference held at Wilfrid Laurier University, Faculty of Music in Waterloo, Ontario.
dc.description.abstractContemporary jazz musicians draw from a rich and varied collection of techniques and strategies used towards the realization of harmonic succession, voicing and voice-leading, and linear improvisation. While musicians recognize the distinctiveness of various jazz chord-scales and harmonies, they also talk about “source scales” and chord families, and describe processes that apply to the manipulation of chord progressions including chord and chord-scale substitution, interpolation, and reduction. Aligned to jazz theoretic discourse, this paper presents a model of set-class space in which scales and chords typical of the jazz language coalesce into pc-set genera and form inter-generic relations through transformation. The model suggests a holistic, theoretical definition of jazz harmony and offers musicians a way of thinking about relations among scales and harmonies in terms of a transformational system that resides in transformational space, which in turn can be employed systematically and imaginatively towards the creation and interpretation of jazz music.
dc.format.extent254.31 kb
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14078/165
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved
dc.subjectjazz harmony
dc.subjectjazz theory
dc.subjectchord-scales
dc.subjectsource scales
dc.subjecttransformation
dc.subjectnear-equivalency
dc.subjectpc-set genera
dc.subjecttransformational system
dc.subjectpc-set theory
dc.subjectset-class space
dc.subjecttransformational space
dc.subjectdiatonic
dc.subjectlydian b7
dc.titleJazz harmony: pitch-class set genera, transformation, and practical musicen
dc.typePresentation
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