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The Creative Application of Extended Techniques for Double Bass in Improvisation and Composition
The creative application of extended techniques for double bass in improvisation and composition Presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Music) Volume Number 1 of 2 Ashley John Long 2020 Contents List of musical examples iii List of tables and figures vi Abstract vii Acknowledgements viii Introduction 1 Chapter 1: Historical Precedents: Classical Virtuosi and the Viennese Bass 13 Chapter 2: Jazz Bass and the Development of Pizzicato i) Jazz 24 ii) Free improvisation 32 Chapter 3: Barry Guy i) Introduction 40 ii) Instrumental technique 45 iii) Musical choices 49 iv) Compositional technique 52 Chapter 4: Barry Guy: Bass Music i) Statements II – Introduction 58 ii) Statements II – Interpretation 60 iii) Statements II – A brief analysis 62 iv) Anna 81 v) Eos 96 Chapter 5: Bernard Rands: Memo I 105 i) Memo I/Statements II – Shared traits 110 ii) Shared techniques 112 iii) Shared notation of techniques 115 iv) Structure 116 v) Motivic similarities 118 vi) Wider concerns 122 i Chapter 6: Contextual Approaches to Performance and Composition within My Own Practice 130 Chapter 7: A Portfolio of Compositions: A Commentary 146 i) Ariel 147 ii) Courant 155 iii) Polynya 163 iv) Lento (i) 169 v) Lento (ii) 175 vi) Ontsindn 177 Conclusion 182 Bibliography 191 ii List of Examples Ex. 0.1 Polynya, Letter A, opening phrase 7 Ex. 1.1 Dragonetti, Twelve Waltzes No.1 (bb. 31–39) 19 Ex. 1.2 Bottesini, Concerto No.2 (bb. 1–8, 1st subject) 20 Ex.1.3 VerDi, Otello (Act 4 opening, double bass) 20 Ex. -
Contact: a Journal for Contemporary Music (1971-1988) Citation
Contact: A Journal for Contemporary Music (1971-1988) http://contactjournal.gold.ac.uk Citation Barry. Malcolm. 1977-1978. ‘Review of Company 1 (Maarten van Regteren Altena, Derek Bailey, Tristan Honsinger, Evan Parker) and Company 2 (Derek Bailey, Anthony Braxton, Evan Parker)’. Contact, 18. pp. 36-39. ISSN 0308-5066. ! Director Professor Frederick Rimmer MA B M us FRco Secretary and Librarian James. L McAdam BM us FRco Scottish R Music Archive with the support of the Scottish Arts Council for the documentation and study of Scottish music information on all matters relating to Scottish composers and Scottish music printed and manuscript scores listening facilities: tape and disc recordings Enquiries and visits welcomed: full-time staff- Mr Paul Hindmarsh (Assistant Librarian) and Miss Elizabeth Wilson (Assistant Secretary) Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.30 am- 5.30 pm Monday & Wednesday 6.00-9.00 pm Saturday 9.30 am- 12.30 pm .. cl o University of Glasgow 7 Lily bank Gdns. Glasgow G 12 8RZ Telephone 041-334 6393 37 INCUS it RECORDS INCUS RECORDS/ COMPATIBLE RECORDING AND PUBLISHING LTD. is a self-managed company owned and operated by musicians. The company was founded in 1970, motivated partly by the ideology of self-determination and partly by the absence of an acceptable alternative. The spectrum of music issued has been broad, but the musical policy of the company is centred on improvisation. Prior to 1970 the innovative musician had a relationship with the British record industry that could only be improved on. To be offered any chance to make a record at all was already a great favour and somehow to question the economics (fees, royalties, publishing) would certainly have been deemed ungrateful. -
A More Attractive ‘Way of Getting Things Done’ Freedom, Collaboration and Compositional Paradox in British Improvised and Experimental Music 1965-75
A more attractive ‘way of getting things done’ freedom, collaboration and compositional paradox in British improvised and experimental music 1965-75 Simon H. Fell A thesis submitted to the University of Huddersfield in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy The University of Huddersfield September 2017 copyright statement i. The author of this thesis (including any appendices and/or schedules to this thesis) owns any copyright in it (the “Copyright”) and he has given The University of Huddersfield the right to use such Copyright for any administrative, promotional, educational and/or teaching purposes. ii. Copies of this thesis, either in full or in extracts, may be made only in accordance with the regulations of the University Library. Details of these regulations may be obtained from the Librarian. This page must form part of any such copies made. iii. The ownership of any patents, designs, trade marks and any and all other intellectual property rights except for the Copyright (the “Intellectual Property Rights”) and any reproductions of copyright works, for example graphs and tables (“Reproductions”), which may be described in this thesis, may not be owned by the author and may be owned by third parties. Such Intellectual Property Rights and Reproductions cannot and must not be made available for use without the prior written permission of the owner(s) of the relevant Intellectual Property Rights and/or Reproductions. 2 abstract This thesis examines the activity of the British musicians developing a practice of freely improvised music in the mid- to late-1960s, in conjunction with that of a group of British composers and performers contemporaneously exploring experimental possibilities within composed music; it investigates how these practices overlapped and interpenetrated for a period. -
Audio ART Festiwal2000
Stowarzyszenie Artystyczne Muzyka Centrum Goethe-Institute Kraków m u z y k a koncerty b e z instalacje g r a n i c AUdio ART performance FEStiwaLw w w . a2000 u d i o a r t . z . p l 11 LISTOPADA, 18:00, SYNAGOGA ul. Szeroka EVAN PARKER (Londyn) saksofon EVAN PARKER EVAN PARKER Born Bristol, 5 April 1944; Tenor and soprano saxophones. Urodzony Bristol, 5 kwiecieñ 1944; bieg i sopranu saksofony. Evan Parker started to play (alto) saxophone around the age of Evan Parker zaczynany bawiæ siê (alt) saksofon dooko³a wieku 14, being particularly interested in the music of Paul Desmond. 14, bêd¹cego szczególnie zainteresowanego w muzyce Paul At 16 he started to play the soprano saxophone and there fol- Desmond. Przy 16 on zaczyna³ siê graæ sopranu saksofon i tam lowed a period where he concentrated on soprano only, influ- nastêpowaæ okres gdzie on koncentrowa³ siê na sopranie tylko, enced by John Coltrane. Following his undergraduate studies at wp³ywany przez John Coltrane. Nastêpuj¹cy jego student studiuje Birmingham University, he moved to London and, in late 1966/ przy Birmingham Uniwersytecie, on rusza³ siê do Londynu i, w early 1967 began playing in the Spontaneous Music Ensemble pónym 1966 / wczenie 1967 zaczyna³ grê w Spontanicznym (SME) who, at that time, along with Parker, comprised John Muzyki Zespole (SME) kto, w tamtym czasie, wzd³u¿ z Parker, Stevens, Kenny Wheeler, Paul Rutherford, Trevor Watts and Derek zawiera³ John Stevens, Kenny Konia dyszlowy, Paul Ruterford, Bailey. The regular venue for these sessions was the Little Thea- Trevor Waty i Derek Mur zamku. -
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05 5 $4.99 DownBeat.com 09281 01493 0 MAY 2010MAY U.K. £3.50 001_COVER.qxd 3/16/10 2:08 PM Page 1 DOWNBEAT MIGUEL ZENÓN // RAMSEY LEWIS & KIRK WHALUM // EVAN PARKER // SUMMER FESTIVAL GUIDE MAY 2010 002-025_FRONT.qxd 3/17/10 10:28 AM Page 2 002-025_FRONT.qxd 3/17/10 10:29 AM Page 3 002-025_FRONT.qxd 3/17/10 10:29 AM Page 4 May 2010 VOLUME 77 – NUMBER 5 President Kevin Maher Publisher Frank Alkyer Editor Ed Enright Associate Editor Aaron Cohen Art Director Ara Tirado Production Associate Andy Williams Bookkeeper Margaret Stevens Circulation Manager Kelly Grosser ADVERTISING SALES Record Companies & Schools Jennifer Ruban-Gentile 630-941-2030 [email protected] Musical Instruments & East Coast Schools Ritche Deraney 201-445-6260 [email protected] Classified Advertising Sales Sue Mahal 630-941-2030 [email protected] OFFICES 102 N. Haven Road Elmhurst, IL 60126–2970 630-941-2030 Fax: 630-941-3210 www.downbeat.com [email protected] CUSTOMER SERVICE 877-904-5299 [email protected] CONTRIBUTORS Senior Contributors: Michael Bourne, John McDonough, Howard Mandel Austin: Michael Point; Boston: Fred Bouchard, Frank-John Hadley; Chicago: John Corbett, Alain Drouot, Michael Jackson, Peter Margasak, Bill Meyer, Mitch Myers, Paul Natkin, Howard Reich; Denver: Norman Provizer; Indiana: Mark Sheldon; Iowa: Will Smith; Los Angeles: Earl Gibson, Todd Jenkins, Kirk Silsbee, Chris Walker, Joe Woodard; Michigan: John Ephland; Minneapolis: Robin James; Nashville: Robert Doerschuk; New Orleans: Erika Goldring, David Kunian; New York: Alan Bergman, Herb Boyd, Bill Douthart, Ira Gitler, Eugene Gologursky, Norm Harris, D.D. -
Values and Practices in Contemporary Improvised Music Author(S): David Borgo Source: Black Music Research Journal, Vol
Negotiating Freedom: Values and Practices in Contemporary Improvised Music Author(s): David Borgo Source: Black Music Research Journal, Vol. 22, No. 2, (Autumn, 2002), pp. 165-188 Published by: Center for Black Music Research - Columbia College Chicago and University of Illinois Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1519955 Accessed: 23/07/2008 16:48 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use. Please contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact information may be obtained at http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublisher?publisherCode=cbmr. Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printed page of such transmission. JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1995 to build trusted digital archives for scholarship. We work with the scholarly community to preserve their work and the materials they rely upon, and to build a common research platform that promotes the discovery and use of these resources. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. http://www.jstor.org NEGOTIATINGFREEDOM: VALUES AND PRACTICES IN CONTEMPORARYIMPROVISED MUSIC DAVIDBORGO Freeimprovisation is not an action resultingfrom freedom;it is an action directedtowards freedom. -
Jazz New Internet
Jazz Notes™ The Journal of the Jazz Journalists AssociationSM Vol. 18, No. 3 • Autumn 2007 From the Editor 2 President’s Report 3 Letter to the Editor 4 By W. Royal Stokes A Crisis Getting Worse 5 By Alex Henderson Why Would I Choose 6 Anything Else? By Mikayla R. Gilbreath Max Roach 7 By arnold jay smith and Paul Rutherford 8 Jazz the New Internet By Laurence Svirchev 8 By Matt Merewitz Book Reviews 9 By Michele Drayton, Ken Dryden, “ ew media” means different all the music’s constituents. We should all George Kanzler and Jerry D’Souza things to different people. Wiki- be especially concerned with these aspects N pedia defines it as “new forms of Web 2.0, as newspaper and magazine News of Members 9 of human and media communication that subscriptions continue to wane and column have been transformed by technology to inches for jazz in print media shrink at an fulfill the basic social need to interact and alarming rate. New Members 12 transact.” Simply put, the hallmarks of the “old” The entry continues: “New media is also World Wide Web were portals, search en- closely associated with the term ‘Web 2.0,’ gines, bulletin boards, newsgroups and IN THIS ISSUE IN which refers to a second generation of In- email. To jazz people already online in the ternet-based services that emphasize online mid-’90s, sites like jazzcentralstation.com, collaboration and sharing among users.” jazzcorner.com, jazzusa.com, allaboutjazz.com Suffice it to say that weblogs (“blogs”), pod- and birdlives.com became popular destina- COVER ILLUSTRATION: casts, sms (text messaging), rss feeds, social tions and resources, and they remain so. -
PAUL LYTTON/GEORGES PAUL Lineares.G
IN SITU ART SOCIETY presents THE DISSONANT SERIES 4 = 2×2 P2: PAUL LYTTON/GEORGES PAUL Sa. 17.01.2015 um 19:00 lineares.g: BERND WENDT/ WOLFGANG MENDEN Bonn Café Sahneweiß Kaiserstraße 53113 1d, PAUL LYTTON: Schlagzeug, Perkussion Paul Lytton wurde 1947 in London geboren. Mit 16 hat er angefangen Schlagzeug zu spielen und seit Ende der 60er Jahre beschäftigt er sich mit der freien Im- provisation. Besonders bekannt ist u. a. seine Zusam- menarbeit mit Evan Parker und Barry Guy. Lytton ist Mitglied der Gruppe „London Jazz Composers Orches- tra“ und Gründungsmitglied des „London Musicians Collective“. Im Laufe seiner musikalischen Karriere hat Lytton zusammen mit Paul Lovens das Label „Po Torch Records“ gegründet. Desweiteren zählt er als Mitinitiator des Kollektivs „Aachen Musicians Coope- rative“. Lytton hat in seiner Laufbahn mehr als 100 Alben mit Musikern wie Roscoe Mit- chell, Fred Anderson, Evan Parker, Barry Guy, Ken Vandermark, Paul Lovens, Alexander von Schlippenbach, Marilyn Crispell und vielen anderen veröffentlicht und gilt weltweit als eine zentrale Figur des Free Jazz und der frei-improvisierten Musik. GEORGES PAUL: Saxophone, Klarinette Georges Paul wurde in Thessaloniki (Griechenland) geboren und begann seine musikalische Ausbildung parallel zum Philosophie- studium in Griechenland und Deutschland. Er studierte klassi- schen Kontrabass bei Iraklis Soumelidis am „Contemporary Con- servatory“ in Thessaloniki, weiters verschiedene Blasinstrumente, insbesondere Saxophone. Er spielt hauptsächlich frei improvisierte Musik und beschäftigt sich mit der Beziehung zwischen zeitge- nössischer Improvisation und philosophischer Ästhetik sowie dem Auffinden neuer Methoden und Techniken zur Aufschließung des Klangs. Er ist Mitbegründer der In Situ Art Society (ebenfalls be- teiligt ist Pavel Borodin) und bereitet zur Zeit eine Solo-Langspiel- platte sowie eine Reihe von 7” Singles in Zusammenarbeit mit ver- schiedenen Künstlern vor. -
Pathways to the Practice of Free Improvisation
PATHWAYS TO THE PRACTICE OF FREE IMPROVISATION Derek Emch A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate College of Bowling Green State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF MUSICAL ARTS December 2020 Committee: Kevin Schempf, Advisor Carol Heckman Graduate Faculty Representative Ryan Ebright Elizabeth Menard © 2020 Derek Emch All Rights Reserved iii ABSTRACT Kevin Schempf, Advisor Improvisation offers unique opportunities in musical creativity and development, though incorporation of the teaching of improvisation into American higher education curricula has been uneven. While there is a growing interest in teaching improvisation, most improvisation instruction can be found in early childhood music education and in high school and college-level jazz instruction, creating an accessibility gap for individuals who wish to improvise or teach improvisation but have no experience improvising, in a jazz context or otherwise. The purpose of this document is to examine current instructional methods of teaching free improvisation in higher education, and to develop a series of musical prompts designed to develop spontaneous musical creative ability in an individual and group setting. In doing so, this document aims to reduce the accessibility gap and to help bring the culture of creative improvising further into collegiate-level musical instruction. iv To my life coaches, Kevin and Eric v ACKNOWLEDGMENTS First, I must thank my teacher and advisor, Kevin Schempf. You have been a tireless advocate for me in my time at BGSU. I am unable to fully express just how much you have helped me. As a teacher not only have you always given me the opportunity to succeed you have been my cheerleader and ally. -
Improvised Music After 1950: Afrological and Eurological Perspectives
Improvised Music after 1950: Afrological and Eurological Perspectives George E. Lewis Black Music Research Journal, Vol. 22, Supplement: Best of BMRJ. (2002), pp. 215-246. Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0276-3605%282002%2922%3C215%3AIMA1AA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Y Black Music Research Journal is currently published by Center for Black Music Research - Columbia College Chicago. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/about/terms.html. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use. Please contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact information may be obtained at http://www.jstor.org/journals/cbmr.html. Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printed page of such transmission. The JSTOR Archive is a trusted digital repository providing for long-term preservation and access to leading academic journals and scholarly literature from around the world. The Archive is supported by libraries, scholarly societies, publishers, and foundations. It is an initiative of JSTOR, a not-for-profit organization with a mission to help the scholarly community take advantage of advances in technology. For more information regarding JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. http://www.jstor.org Tue Oct 9 15:15:54 2007 IMPROVISED MUSICAFTER 1950: AFROLOGICALAND EUROLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES GEORGEE. -
Kenny Barron Fun Adventure
July 2012 | No. 123 Your FREE Guide to the NYC Jazz Scene nycjazzrecord.com KENNY BARRON FUN ADVENTURE VERYAN • WEASEL • ERNIE • MATCHLESS • EVENT WESTON WALTER ANDREWS RECORDINGS CALENDAR It was with great joy that the National Endowment for the Arts reversed a 2011 decision to end the Jazz Masters program after decades. Whatever brought them back to their senses (jazz needs more recognition, not less), all jazz fans should be New York@Night happy that legendary performers will still receive this accolade (and the 25,000 4 clams that goes with it). In 2010, alongside fellow pianists Muhal Richard Abrams and Cedar Walton, Philadelphia-born Kenny Barron was elevated. We could Interview: Veryan Weston devote our entire gazette just to printing his massive discography, starting with 6 by Ken Waxman his first recording in 1960 with Yusef Lateef (part of the same Jazz Master class), Artist Feature: Weasel Walter the many done with his older brother/saxophonist Bill, sessions with Dizzy Gillespie and almost everyone else in jazz as well as his over 40 albums as a leader. 7 by Martin Longley Barron brings a quintet to the Village Vanguard this month. On The Cover: Kenny Barron In the category of “And now for something completely different”, Interview (British pianist Veryan Weston) and Artist Feature (Chicagoan drummer Weasel by George Kanzler 9 Walter) subjects present two very different sides to modern improvising, the Encore: Lest We Forget: former often working in the insectile world of European free music with such chaps as Trevor Watts and Lol Coxhill, the latter leaving a trail of destruction in 10 Ernie Andrews Buster Bailey his wake with his defunct Flying Luttenbachers group or in any number of by Marcia Hillman by Donald Elfman aggressive local collaborations. -
Dean Free Improv
"phenomenal musicianship" (Sydney Morning Herald, 1995) "incredible interaction" (The Wire, UK, 1996) "cutting edge ... eclectic ... consummate" (BBC Radio 3, UK, 1997) "intelligent musical innovation .... the sound world took the ear into alluring and unexplored domains" (Sydney Morning Herald, 2005) "those doyens of computerised music" (Sydney Morning Herald, 2008) "creates amazing soundscapes" (Sydney Morning Herald, December 2009) On Roger Dean: ‘trail-blazing’, 'earthy approach', ‘surprising and disquieting’, ‘exquisite’, ‘crystalline or tumultuous’, ‘brilliant musicianship’, ‘exploding with vivacity'. (John Shand of the Sydney Morning Herald, 2013) An activity of austraLYSIS, an international ensemble creating and performing new sound and intermedia arts, based in Sydney, Australia. www.australysis.com Roger Dean: Free Improviser/piano and/or laptop A major strand in the work of Roger Dean (composer/improviser) is Free Improvisation, solo and group, with Dean performing on piano and/or laptop. He has performed free improv at iconic venues such as the Little Theatre Club (1970’s-80s) and Café Oto (2011,2013--), and on the South Bank (London), at Bracknell Jazz Festival, at the ISCM World Music Days (Denmark), and around Asia and Australasia. He has worked in solo, duo and ensemble contexts, with people such as Derek Bailey, Connie Bauer, Jim Fulkerson, Barry Guy, The London Jazz Composers’ Orchestra, Oren Marshall, Maggie Nichols, Tony Oxley, Evan Parker, Eddie Prevost, Paul Rutherford, Veleroy Spall and Ken Wheeler. He made some innovative free improvisation recordings such as the 1970-1987 LPs Dualyses, and Superimpositions (reissued on CD in 2013), and included solo free improvisation on many other albums (such as his very first, LYSIS Live, 1975; reissued on CD by Future Music Records).