Stephen F. Austin State University SFA ScholarWorks Electronic Theses and Dissertations Spring 2020 COMPARING TRADITIONAL AND MODERN TRENDS IN JAZZ IMPROVISATION Ryan M. Johnson Stephen F Austin State University,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/etds Part of the Music Theory Commons Tell us how this article helped you. Repository Citation Johnson, Ryan M., "COMPARING TRADITIONAL AND MODERN TRENDS IN JAZZ IMPROVISATION" (2020). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 312. https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/etds/312 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by SFA ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of SFA ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. COMPARING TRADITIONAL AND MODERN TRENDS IN JAZZ IMPROVISATION Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. This thesis is available at SFA ScholarWorks: https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/etds/312 COMPARING TRADITIONAL AND MODERN TRENDS IN JAZZ IMPROVISATION By RYAN JOHNSON Bachelor of Music Master’s Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Stephen F. Austin State University In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements For the Degree of Master of Music in Music Theory STEPHEN F. AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY March, 2020 COMPARING TRADITIONAL AND MODERN TRENDS IN JAZZ IMPROVISATION By RYAN JOHNSON (Bachelor of Music) APPROVED: ________________________________________ Dr. Samantha Inman, Thesis Director ________________________________________ Dr. Stephen Lias, Committee Member ________________________________________ Dr. Deb Scott, Committee Member ________________________________________ Dr. Mario Morera, Committee Member _________________________________________ Pauline M. Sampson, Ph.