Cette thèse propose une investigation musicologique du troisième album pour Blue Note Records du pianiste étatsunien Herbie Hancock: Inventions and Dimensions (1964). Si, d’une part, l’analyse de cet enregistrement permet d’envisager le processus d’expansion du langage musical qui agite le jazz au début des années 1960, de l’autre, cette entreprise jette un éclairage sur l’évolution de la poétique hancockienne. Négligé par les études sur le jazz, Inventions and Dimensions constitue un véritable manifeste de la pensée musicale du pianiste, dont la production reste jusqu’à aujourd’hui peu étudiée, en dépit de son importance dans le développement du jazz moderne. Ainsi, l’examen de Inventions and Dimensions comble-t-il une lacune musicologique sur la production hancockienne, mais en plus, il invite à réfléchir sur des questions de portée plus large, comme la pertinence des catégories historiographiques de « free jazz » et « jazz modal » et l’impact des traditions musicales afro-caribéennes sur le jazz des années 1960. Afin de situer Inventions and Dimensions dans le processus de transformation du langage jazz des années 1960 et d’évaluer son rôle dans le développement de la poétique hancockienne, la thèse s’appuie sur des transcriptions réalisées par son auteur. Cela impose quelques considérations préliminaires sur la pratique de transcription en jazz, sur sa signification corporelle, et sur les limites intrinsèques de son produit scriptural. Ensuite, la thèse se concentre sur l’analyse structurelle, motivique et rythmique du discours pianistique hancockien dans Inventions and Dimensions, en établissant un dialogue constant avec les autres enregistrements du pianiste de la première moitié des années 1960. Ce faisant, les caractéristiques de la poétique musicale de Hancock peuvent être efficacement illustrées, à la fois dans leur évolution au cours des années 1960 et dans la réalisation particulière qu’elles trouvent dans Inventions and Dimensions. Toutefois, pour encadrer l’album du point de vue historico-musical, il faut aussi en examiner le contenu à la lumière des catégories de « jazz modal » et « free jazz ». Cela amène à souligner le caractère fragmentaire et, par conséquent, problématique de ces enveloppes sémantiques. Inventions and Dimensions exploite aussi des rythmes religieux afro-cubains dont les pérégrinations dévoilent une autre dimension de l’album qui, en plus de traverser les significations musicales et extramusicales associées au « jazz modal » et au « free jazz », façonne autant le langage rythmique hancockien que l’imaginaire musical des années 1960. À l’exemple d’autres enregistrements liminaires de l’époque, Inventions and Dimensions démontre en conclusion comment la variété de langages qui fleurissent au début de la décennie peut être repensée comme le paradigme d’une koinè tournée vers l’affranchissement de canons désormais dépassés. / This dissertation proposes a musicological investigation of Herbie Hancock’s third album for Blue Note Records: Inventions and Dimensions (1964). The analysis of the recording allows us to address how jazz language was transformed in the 1960s, while also shedding light on the evolution of Hancock’s personal style. Inventions and Dimensions represents a true manifesto of Hancock’s early production, which has been overlooked by scholars despite its importance for the development of modern jazz. Thus, this dissertation addresses a gap in musicological scholarship on Hancock’s work and encourages the development of broader reflections on issues such as the use of categories such as “free jazz” and “modal jazz”, and the impact of Afro-Caribbean traditions on jazz in the 1960s. In order to situate Inventions and Dimensions in the process of the transformation of the jazz language in the 1960s and to evaluate its role in the development of Hancock’s style, the dissertation relies on the author’s (my own) transcriptions of the album, introduced by some preliminary considerations about the practice of transcription in jazz, its corporal meaning and its intrinsic limitations as a finished written product. The dissertation then focuses on the structural, motivic and rhythmic analysis of Hancock’s piano improvisations in Inventions and Dimensions, drawing a relationship between the musical content of the album and other Hancock recordings from the early 1960s. This allows us to illustrate how the main features of Hancock’s style developed during the 1960s and how they manifest specifically in Inventions and Dimensions. However, in an effort to frame the album from a historical perspective, the dissertation also examines the musical content of the record through the lenses of the categories of “modal” and “free” jazz, underscoring the fragmentary and problematic nature of such semantic envelopes. Finally, this work traces the routes of the Afro-Cuban religious rhythms incorporated into Inventions and Dimensions to determine how they shape both Hancock’s rhythmic language and the musical imaginary of the 1960s, and how do they permeate the musical and extra-musical meanings associated with “modal” and “free” jazz. In conclusion, Inventions and Dimensions, like other liminal recordings of the period, demonstrates how the diversity of idioms that flourished in the early 1960s should be reconsidered as the paradigm of a koinè that breaks away from outdated standards.

A presente tese faz uma reflexão sobre a música radiofônica no Brasil no período imediatamente após a 2ª Guerra Mundial (1946) até a segunda metade da década de 1950. Tem-se por objeto privilegiado de análise uma série de gravações radiofônicas do período, em sua maioria advindas da Rádio Nacional e da Rádio Tupi, ambas do Rio de Janeiro. O período em questão, frequentemente chamado de Era de Ouro do rádio brasileiro, traz em si a característica de estar entre dois momentos mais fartamente estudados no que se refere à música contida neles. Isto chama a atenção para uma espécie de descontinuidade historiográfica, onde é privilegiada a discussão de categorias musicais como o samba-exaltação e o samba malandro, de um lado, bem como a bossa nova e as canções engajadas de outro. Como este período apresenta outras categorias distintas, justifica-se sua pertinência para a discussão da música brasileira e como esta representava a sociedade na visão dos que a fizeram no rádio. Organizou-se essa documentação de modo a refletir sobre a referida descontinuidade narrativa. Pretendeu-se também mostrar a especificidade da música veiculada pelo rádio em contraste com aquela feita para o disco, já que entende-se que essa divisão metodológica é necessária e útil para melhor compreender-se o período. Logo a seguir, foi feito um tripé analítico onde aparecem em capítulos específicos sobre a memória, a representação da negritude e a ameaça da cultura estrangeira, notadamente a americana. Assim, pretende-se ver como os homens envolvidos no ofício radiofônico do período lidaram com uma série de valores, limitações e prestígio ao longo do período. / This thesis is a reflection on the radio music in Brazil in the period immediately after the 2nd World War (1946) until the second half of the 1950s. It has been a privileged object for analyzing a series of radio recordings of the period, mostly coming from the Radio Nacional and Radio Tupi, both in Rio de Janeiro. This period is often called the Golden Age of Brazilian radio, and bears the characteristic of being among the two most widely studied moments with respect to the music contained therein. This draws attention to a sort of historical discontinuity. There is a great deal about privileged musical categories such as samba-exaltação and samba-malandro, on one side, and the bossa nova and engaged songs on the another. As this period contains other distinct categories, they justify its relevance to the discussion of Brazilian music and how it represented the society by means of radio shows. This documentation was organized to think about this narrative discontinuity. It was also intended to show the specificity of music aired on the radio in contrast to the one made for the discs, since that this methodological division is necessary and useful to better understand the period. Later, it has been made an analytical tripod with the chapters where they appear. Specifically, they talk about memory, the representation of blackness and the \"threat\" of foreign culture, notably the U.S.. Thus, it is intended to see how the men involved in the making of musical radio shows dealt with a series of values, limitations and prestige over the period.

For a practice that has influenced the development of most of the musical techniques and compositional forms of Western music (Ferand, 1965, p.5), 'improvisation' is challenging to define. Recently, the graded music examinations offered by the two largest UK-based music examination boards, the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM) and Trinity College London (TCL), have added options to assess improvisation within their instrumental curricula without clearly defining what they mean by 'improvisation' or how they assess it. This thesis argues that the lack of consistent definitions by the two leading examination boards results in a lack validity and meaning since it is unclear to examination stakeholders (music teachers, students, examiners and syllabus authors) exactly what is being assessed and how. This thesis investigates how 'improvisation' is defined, practiced, assessed and perceived within instrumental graded musical examinations. Evidence addressing the perspectives of the teaching-and-learning stakeholders is drawn from case-study observations and interviews of instrumental music lessons while candidates prepared for and completed an examination requiring improvisation. The perspectives of the examination board stakeholders are investigated through document analysis of the syllabuses, curricula and institutional websites of the examination boards in addition to interviews with examination board executives. The findings provide an initial investigation into an unexplored intersection of music education, improvisation and the business of graded examination boards. A clearer understanding emerges of the cultural and social practices of improvisation both inside and outside of the hegemony of graded examinations and the teaching-and- learning communities that support them. The findings of this thesis challenge the examination boards and bring more clarity to their assessment practices. and can help guide music teachers and students through the currently unclear landscape of improvisation in the ABRSM and TCL examinations.

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A presente tese faz uma reflexão sobre a música radiofônica no Brasil no período imediatamente após a 2ª Guerra Mundial (1946) até a segunda metade da década de 1950. Tem-se por objeto privilegiado de análise uma série de gravações radiofônicas do período, em sua maioria advindas da Rádio Nacional e da Rádio Tupi, ambas do Rio de Janeiro. O período em questão, frequentemente chamado de Era de Ouro do rádio brasileiro, traz em si a característica de estar entre dois momentos mais fartamente estudados no que se refere à música contida neles. Isto chama a atenção para uma espécie de descontinuidade historiográfica, onde é privilegiada a discussão de categorias musicais como o samba-exaltação e o samba malandro, de um lado, bem como a bossa nova e as canções engajadas de outro. Como este período apresenta outras categorias distintas, justifica-se sua pertinência para a discussão da música brasileira e como esta representava a sociedade na visão dos que a fizeram no rádio. Organizou-se essa documentação de modo a refletir sobre a referida descontinuidade narrativa. Pretendeu-se também mostrar a especificidade da música veiculada pelo rádio em contraste com aquela feita para o disco, já que entende-se que essa divisão metodológica é necessária e útil para melhor compreender-se o período. Logo a seguir, foi feito um tripé analítico onde aparecem em capítulos específicos sobre a memória, a representação da negritude e a ameaça da cultura estrangeira, notadamente a americana. Assim, pretende-se ver como os homens envolvidos no ofício radiofônico do período lidaram com uma série de valores, limitações e prestígio ao longo do período. / This thesis is a reflection on the radio music in Brazil in the period immediately after the 2nd World War (1946) until the second half of the 1950s. It has been a privileged object for analyzing a series of radio recordings of the period, mostly coming from the Radio Nacional and Radio Tupi, both in Rio de Janeiro. This period is often called the Golden Age of Brazilian radio, and bears the characteristic of being among the two most widely studied moments with respect to the music contained therein. This draws attention to a sort of historical discontinuity. There is a great deal about privileged musical categories such as samba-exaltação and samba-malandro, on one side, and the bossa nova and engaged songs on the another. As this period contains other distinct categories, they justify its relevance to the discussion of Brazilian music and how it represented the society by means of radio shows. This documentation was organized to think about this narrative discontinuity. It was also intended to show the specificity of music aired on the radio in contrast to the one made for the discs, since that this methodological division is necessary and useful to better understand the period. Later, it has been made an analytical tripod with the chapters where they appear. Specifically, they talk about memory, the representation of blackness and the \"threat\" of foreign culture, notably the U.S.. Thus, it is intended to see how the men involved in the making of musical radio shows dealt with a series of values, limitations and prestige over the period.

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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 350-359). Investigates the influence of Coltrane's music on the improvising of post-Coltrane saxophonists by inspecting selected improvisations of Jerry Bergonzi and David Liebman and comparing them to improvisations by Coltrane on the same repertoire piece. The comparision also demonstrates how two current jazz saxophonists have drawn on the past - the legacy of Coltrane - to create innovative music in the present.

<p>Miles Davis, never one for self-effacing humility, took his boasting to new heights when he proclaimed in a <i>Rolling Stone</i> interview from December 1969, "I could put together the greatest rock and roll band you ever heard." Most critics agree that <i>A Tribute to Jack Johnson</i>, recorded between February and April of 1970, was his attempt to do just that. The album featured an ensemble that was closer to a rock power trio than a jazz quintet, musicians who were as schooled in rock and R&B as in jazz, and a prominent use of emerging instrument and studio technologies previously unheard in Davis's music. In highlighting these stylistic markers, <i>A Tribute to Jack Johnson</i> made definitive the musical transition that Davis's immediately preceding works had set in motion. </p><p> Though few fans of the era would have been surprised by Davis's invocation of the value-laden vocabulary of "greatness" in describing his music, many were taken aback by his desire to associate with rock and roll. For a musician trained in the jazz tradition and revered as a master of the genre, the intentional incorporation of influences from popular music was viewed by many jazz listeners as nothing short of heretical. What did it mean, then, for Davis to make such a claim - and such an album - at the particular time that he did? </p><p> To address these two questions, I investigate in my dissertation the production, circulation, and reception of both the stand-alone album <i>A Tribute to Jack Johnson</i> and the documentary film for which parts of the album were initially the soundtrack. Combining my training in music with scholarly perspectives on identity politics, technology studies, film studies, and African American social and political history, I demonstrate how this recording comprises both a signal incursion into accepted jazz practice, and a unique window onto vital debates around jazz, popular culture, and identity constructions in the U.S. in the early 1970s. This dissertation thereby offers one approach for continuing the critical re-evaluation of fusion jazz that has prominently been in progress since the late 1990s.</p> / Dissertation

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept. of Music, Dec. 2003. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--York University, 2001. / Typescript. "Publisher's no.: UMI NQ67904." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 388-421). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/yorku/fullcit?pNQ67904.