Charlie Parker, Composer

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

As a founding father of bebop and brilliant jazz improviser, Charlie Parker has secured a reputation and legacy second to none since his birth nearly 100 years ago. Because of his excellence as an improviser, however, his compositions - while admired and still played - have taken a back seat. In this exciting and timely new volume, author Henry Martin rebalances our understanding of Parker by spotlighting his significance as a jazz composer.Beginning with a review of Parker's life and musical training, Charlie Parker, Composer critically analyzes Parker's compositions, situating them within both his individual musicianship and early bebop style. Proposing that Parker composed up to 84 pieces, Martin examines their development and aesthetic qualities, their similarities and dissimilarities within a range of seven types of jazz composition. Also discussed are eight tunes credited to Parker but never performed by him, along with an evaluation of where - if at all - they fit in his oeuvre. Providing the first assessment of a major jazz composer's output in its entirety, Charlie Parker, Composer offers a thorough reexamination, through music-theoretical, historical, and philosophical lenses, of one of the most influential jazz musicians of all time.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-06-29
Mått:163 x 236 x 30 mm
Vikt:703 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:372
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780190923389

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Populärmusik inom Kultur
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Mer om författaren

Henry Martin is Professor of Music at Rutgers University in Newark. He is a composer, music theorist, and pianist with a long list of compositions, articles, books, and performances. He is the author of Charlie Parker and Thematic Improvisation (1996), Counterpoint: A Species Approach Based on Schenker's Counterpoint (2005), and Jazz: The First 100 Years (co-authored with Keith Waters, 2014). His articles and reviews have appeared in Music Theory Spectrum, Journal of Music Theory, Perspectives of New Music, among many others.

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Charlie Parker, Composer is filled with many insights and much recent published research that I was not aware of until now. Its dazzling achievement makes me forget how few other Parker publications appeared during his centennial year. I will be re-reading it in the coming years, too.

Innehållsförteckning

Table 1Table 2List of Examples and Tables Preface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Jazz Composition and Parker as Jazz Composer Chapter 1: Music Background and Compositional OverviewChapter 2: 32-Bar Rhythm Changes CompositionsChapter 3: Other 32-Bar AABA CompositionsChapter 4: 32-Bar ABAC CompositionsChapter 5: Through-Composed Blues in CChapter 6: Through-Composed Blues in Other KeysChapter 7: 32-Bar Compositions with A Section or Partial A SectionChapter 8: Riff BluesChapter 9: Improvisational Frames with Composed Sections and Non-Standard WorksChapter 10: Summary and Assessment BibliographyIndex