scholarly journals A Study of Long-Form Works for the Jazz Ensemble

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Ryan Brake
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
Jazz Orchestra ◽  
Big Band ◽  
Jazz Composition ◽  
Paul Klee ◽  
Jazz Ensemble ◽  
Modern Jazz ◽  
Long Form

<p>Reflections (In Mosaic) is a long-form work written for a modern jazz orchestra. While made up of seven smaller parts, it is intended to be listened to as a single continuous performance. Reflections (In Mosaic) serves as an exploration into formal structures more complex than the standard blues and cyclical AABA forms. This is achieved through the use of inter-related musical themes, transitional material that develops musical themes and propels the story of the piece forward, programmatic themes, and a consideration towards a more integrative approach to improvised sections in a modern jazz composition context.  This exegesis features a comprehensive musical and topical analysis of four case studies: Duke Ellington’s Harlem (1951), Charles Mingus’s Fables of Faubus (1959), Gunther Schuller’s Seven Studies on Themes of Paul Klee (1959), and Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays’s The Way Up (2005). In my analysis I examine the features of long-form works from a range of different angles through discussions on: (1) the formal features of the symphonic jazz genre and the integration of concert-style gestures into the jazz big band tradition, (2) the role performance and improvisation can have in communicating an idea within a composed structure, (3) the use of programmatic themes, and (4) a model for a structural design which draws on comparisons to narrative structure.  Of particular importance to my compositional project is the use of a programmatic theme. Reflections is directly inspired by the film Magnolia (1999), written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. I do not attempt to mirror the narrative or structure of the film in Reflections but, instead, loosely base the composition on the film’s characters and topical themes. The culmination of this exegesis is a discussion of how the four case studies informed my own compositional processes.</p>

scholarly journals A Study of Long-Form Works for the Jazz Ensemble

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Ryan Brake
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
Jazz Orchestra ◽  
Big Band ◽  
Jazz Composition ◽  
Paul Klee ◽  
Jazz Ensemble ◽  
Modern Jazz ◽  
Long Form

<p>Reflections (In Mosaic) is a long-form work written for a modern jazz orchestra. While made up of seven smaller parts, it is intended to be listened to as a single continuous performance. Reflections (In Mosaic) serves as an exploration into formal structures more complex than the standard blues and cyclical AABA forms. This is achieved through the use of inter-related musical themes, transitional material that develops musical themes and propels the story of the piece forward, programmatic themes, and a consideration towards a more integrative approach to improvised sections in a modern jazz composition context.  This exegesis features a comprehensive musical and topical analysis of four case studies: Duke Ellington’s Harlem (1951), Charles Mingus’s Fables of Faubus (1959), Gunther Schuller’s Seven Studies on Themes of Paul Klee (1959), and Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays’s The Way Up (2005). In my analysis I examine the features of long-form works from a range of different angles through discussions on: (1) the formal features of the symphonic jazz genre and the integration of concert-style gestures into the jazz big band tradition, (2) the role performance and improvisation can have in communicating an idea within a composed structure, (3) the use of programmatic themes, and (4) a model for a structural design which draws on comparisons to narrative structure.  Of particular importance to my compositional project is the use of a programmatic theme. Reflections is directly inspired by the film Magnolia (1999), written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. I do not attempt to mirror the narrative or structure of the film in Reflections but, instead, loosely base the composition on the film’s characters and topical themes. The culmination of this exegesis is a discussion of how the four case studies informed my own compositional processes.</p>

scholarly journals Django Reinhardt’s “Minor Swing” in the Novel “Petrushka Syndrome” By Dina Rubina: Jazz Adaptation of Prose

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yulia V. Sakhnovskaya
Keyword(s):  
Chamber Ensemble ◽  
Mutual Influence ◽  
Musical Form ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Big Band ◽  
Jazz Composition ◽  
Jazz Ensemble ◽  
The Family ◽  
Intersection Points ◽  
Central Characters

This article explores the features of the mutual influence of musical and verbal texts in the works of Dina Rubina, the features of their interaction, the system of key-notes in various works and its functions. The principle of the influence of musical form on the compositional structure of a verbal text is disclosed. From these positions, the novel “Parsley Syndrome” is analyzed and a hypothesis is put forward on the reasons for choosing Jango Reinhardt’s jazz composition “Minor Swing” as the leitmotif of the novel. Also, the intersection points of the two texts are indicated both in the symbolic, and in the ideological and artistic part. The figurative structure of the novel and the similarity of the fate of the central characters with the fate of the author of “Minor Swing” are considered. The development of one of the main themes of Dina Rubina is shown: the continuity of the fate of the family and the clan, the mystical connection of the past and the present, the fatal inevitability of the logic of fate belonging to one genus, the talent and fortitude of the heroes of the novel, which allows one to overcome the vicissitudes of fate. The theme “doll-man” is highlighted, relevant for the novel “Parsley Syndrome”, its variations and forms. Keywords: musical text, verbal text, jazz, ensemble, big band, chamber ensemble, violin, guitar, literature, book, leitmotif, system of characters, theatre, puppet, marionette, animate-inanimate, symbolism of a puppet

Of lions and Yakshis

Semantic Web ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Franziska Pannach ◽  
Caroline Sporleder ◽  
Wolfgang May ◽  
Aravind Krishnan ◽  
Anusharani Sewchurran
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Function Class ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Class Hierarchy ◽  
Invariant Functions ◽  
Narrative Functions ◽  
Query System

Vladimir Propp’s theory Morphology of the Folktale identifies 31 invariant functions, subfunctions, and seven classes of folktale characters to describe the narrative structure of the Russian magic tale. Since it was first published in 1928, Propp’s approach has been used on various folktales of different cultural backgrounds. ProppOntology models Propp’s theory by describing narrative functions using a combination of a function class hierarchy and characteristic relationships between the Dramatis Personae for each function. A special focus lies on the restrictions Propp defined regarding which Dramatis Personae fulfill a certain function. This paper investigates how an ontology can assist traditional Humanities research in examining how well Propp’s theory fits for folktales outside of the Russian–European folktale culture. For this purpose, a lightweight query system has been implemented. To determine how well both the annotation schema and the query system works, twenty African tales and fifteen tales from the Kerala region in India were annotated. The system is evaluated by examining two case studies regarding the representation of characters and the use of Proppian functions in African and Indian tales. The findings are in line with traditional analogous Humanities research. This project shows how carefully modelled ontologies can be utilized as a knowledge base for comparative folklore research.

scholarly journals Developmental Devices Used to Create Coherence and Unity in Multi-Movement Suites in a Modern Jazz Orchestra Setting

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Ryan Brake
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Jazz Orchestra ◽  
Modern Jazz ◽  
Musical Concepts

<p>Solipsis is a six-movement composition for a seventeen-piece jazz orchestra. Each movement was composed to possess its own unique qualities and be able to stand alone. Yet one of the main objectives of this project was to create unity and coherence through the entire suite through the use of non-musical ideas like programmatic themes and conceptual ideas as well as applying various musical techniques such as melodic motifs, harmonic progressions and concepts, chord voicings and rhythm to develop musical ideas.  As a way of creating a sense of unity between each of the pieces, each movement is inspired by themes and motifs inherent in the film Synecdoche, New York, and musical concepts such as nonfunctional harmony (modal harmony and atonal harmony) form the basis for much of the melodic and harmonic material contained in Solipsis.  As preparation for the composition of Soilipsis I studied two three-movement suites from two of the more prominent jazz orchestra writers working today; One Question, Three Answers written by Jim McNeely, and Scenes from Childhood by Maria Schnieder. What follows is a detailed analysis of their works followed by a comprehensive breakdown of my own Solipsis.</p>

scholarly journals The Effect of Outside Genres on Techniques and Devices in Modern Jazz Composition (1988-2008)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Thomas Botting
Keyword(s):  
Jazz Composition ◽  
Modern Jazz ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Research Analysis

<p>This is a study involving research, analysis and performance of music composed by jazz artists in the last twenty years. The focus of this discussion will be on the influence of several outside genres on the music of these jazz composers. In particular it will examine transcriptions of works by composers including Dave Holland, John Scofield, Hiromi Uehara, Nils Wogram, Christian McBride, Bill Frisell, Kenny Garrett and Pat Metheny. The analysis of these transcriptions will examine the devices the composers have used such as counterpoint, harmony, rhythm, instrumentation, melody, time signatures, form et al. and assess how any outside genres may have affected these devices. Furthermore the analysed compositions will be performed in a recital setting, as well as a portfolio of compositions written by myself using the techniques gathered from my analysis.</p>

Articulating Bodies

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kylee-Anne Hingston
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
The Body ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
Victorian Fiction ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
The Social ◽  
Linear Movement ◽  
Body Positioning

Articulating Bodies investigates the contemporaneous developments of Victorian fiction and disability’s medicalization by focusing on the intersection between narrative form and the body. The book examines texts from across the century, from Frederic Shoberl’s 1833 English translation of Victor Hugo’s Notre-Dame de Paris (1831) to Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes story “The Adventure of the Crooked Man” (1893), covering genres that typically relied upon disabled or diseased characters. By tracing the patterns of focalization and narrative structure across six decades of the nineteenth century and across six genres, Articulating Bodies shows the mutability of the Victorians’ understanding of the human body’s centrality to identity—an understanding made mutable by changes in science, technology, religion, and class. It also demonstrates how that understanding changed along with developing narrative styles: as disability became increasingly medicalized and the soul increasingly psychologized, the mode of looking at deviant bodies shifted from gaping at spectacle to scrutinizing specimen, and the shape of narratives evolved from lengthy multiple-plot novels to slim case studies. Moreover, the book illustrates that, despite this overall linear movement from spectacle to specimen in literature and culture, individual texts consistently reveal ambivalence about categorizing the body, positioning some bodies as abnormally deviant while also denying the reality or stability of normalcy. Bodies in Victorian fiction never remain stable entities, in spite of narrative drives and the social, medical, or scientific discourses that attempted to control and understand them.

A Study of Case Studies: Some Reflections and Projections on the Narrative Structuring of Management Cases

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-14
Author(s):  
Cliff Oswick
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Attribution Of Responsibility ◽  
Solution Flow ◽  
Common Features ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Alternative Approaches ◽  
The Common ◽  
Causal Chains

This article explores the narrative structure of management cases. A selective sample of cases ( n = 5) which focus on the turnaround of a high profile corporation is examined. The analysis considers the notions of: thematic framing and ordering (i.e., univocality, causal chains and a ‘problem-to-solution’ flow); verisimilitude (i.e., coherence and plausibility); the use of poetic tropes (i.e., the attribution of responsibility, agency and providential significance). The common features and general characteristics revealed in both ‘conventional cases’ and ‘critical cases’ are identified and discussed. Finally, the scope for embracing and applying alternative approaches (e.g., plurivocal, fragmented and less problem-centred) is presented.

scholarly journals The Requiem Mass and Sacred Jazz: A Study of catholic Liturgical Forms in the Genre of Sacred Jazz

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
John White
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Jazz Orchestra ◽  
Jazz Composition ◽  
Duke Ellington ◽  
Cultural Climate ◽  
Musical Works ◽  
Concert Works ◽  
Requiem Mass ◽  
Musical Forms

<p>This exegesis examines the role of religious and spiritual influence on works by jazz composers as related to my composition, Requiem: a Suite of Jazz Orchestra, a jazz suite based on the Requiem Mass. The exegesis details the Catholic origins of the Requiem and the Mass as musical forms and traces their lineages into the twentieth and twenty-first centuries as concert works and memorials not bound by liturgical function. These forms and their lineages frame the development of both religious and religion-inspired musical works in the cultural climate of 1960s America. In particular, I focus on two composers, Mary Lou Williams and Duke Ellington, both of whom composed large-scale sacred works related to the jazz idiom. This project situates religion, primarily Catholicism, and spirituality in the context of jazz composition, and discusses music composed in this vein, including my own work influenced by the Catholic liturgical tradition.</p>

scholarly journals The Effect of Outside Genres on Techniques and Devices in Modern Jazz Composition (1988-2008)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Thomas Botting
Keyword(s):  
Jazz Composition ◽  
Modern Jazz ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Research Analysis

<p>This is a study involving research, analysis and performance of music composed by jazz artists in the last twenty years. The focus of this discussion will be on the influence of several outside genres on the music of these jazz composers. In particular it will examine transcriptions of works by composers including Dave Holland, John Scofield, Hiromi Uehara, Nils Wogram, Christian McBride, Bill Frisell, Kenny Garrett and Pat Metheny. The analysis of these transcriptions will examine the devices the composers have used such as counterpoint, harmony, rhythm, instrumentation, melody, time signatures, form et al. and assess how any outside genres may have affected these devices. Furthermore the analysed compositions will be performed in a recital setting, as well as a portfolio of compositions written by myself using the techniques gathered from my analysis.</p>

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