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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
Schenkerian Analysis of Modern Jazz: Questions about Method
Beteiligte:
Larson, Steve
Erschienen:
Society for Music Theory, 1998
Erschienen in:Music Theory Spectrum
Sprache:
Englisch
ISSN:
0195-6167;
1533-8339
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<p>In this essay I address three questions often asked about the application of Schenkerian analysis to jazz: (1) Is it appropriate to apply to improvised music a method of analysis developed for the study of composed music? (2) Can features of jazz harmony (ninths, elevenths, and thirteenths) not appearing in the music Schenker analyzed be accounted for by Schenkerian analysis? and (3) Do improvising musicians really intend to create the complex structures shown in Schenkerian analyses? I argue that these questions imply mistaken assumptions about the content and origin of Schenker's theories, the role of analysis, the function of dissonance in common-practice harmony and in jazz, the nature of improvisation as opposed to composition, and the role of simplicity and complexity in popular and classical music. While my answers qualify the applicability of Schenker's theories to jazz, they also emphasize the importance of models in creating, explaining, and experiencing jazz.</p>