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Beeferman, Gordon.

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Beyond the Big Band: Concepts and Strategies in Creative Orchestra Music.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Beyond the Big Band: Concepts and Strategies in Creative Orchestra Music./
Author:	Beeferman, Gordon.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2018,
Description:	279 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-12(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-12A(E).
Subject:	Music. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10749166
ISBN:	9780438170711

Beyond the Big Band: Concepts and Strategies in Creative Orchestra Music.
Beeferman, Gordon.

Beyond the Big Band: Concepts and Strategies in Creative Orchestra Music. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018 - 279 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-12(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2018.

Starting in the 1920s, composers and bandleaders such as Duke Ellington and Count Basie brilliantly incorporated the intimacy and spontaneity of improvisation into a large ensemble context. In the 1940s, economics and stylistic evolution changed the trajectory of jazz towards the small quartet or quintet, but the big band tradition continued in new formats. Sun Ra combined the discipline of the big band with avant-garde free improvisation and visual spectacle. Starting in the 1960s, the tradition of large ensemble improvisation took on a whole new life in the avant-garde. Inspired by the innovations of Sun Ra and other African-American pioneers of free music like Ornette Coleman, Albert Ayler and John Coltrane, composer/bandleaders began to take the improvising orchestra in new directions. Often influencing and influenced by the Euro-American avant-garde (such as John Cage and Krysztof Penderecki), composers developed new performance strategies, notational techniques, and musical forms for collective improvisation.

ISBN: 9780438170711Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Beyond the Big Band: Concepts and Strategies in Creative Orchestra Music.
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