This bachelor thesis explores crossover possibilities between jazz and middle eastern music by arranging folk songs and composing new music based on elements from both genres and performing it with jazz and folk musicians. The study includes a brief explanation of maqam and traditional music of the middle east, its development during the 20thcentury, the impact of western music, including jazz, and some examples of this impact in different countries in the region.It also describes my composing and arranging process leading to new compositions with mutual characters from jazz and folk music and rehearsing these compositions with a band of musicians from different backgrounds. This work subsequently resulted in a concert on March 11th where we performed five compositions, of which two were based on folksongs written for this project.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:kmh-4465 |
| Date | January 2022 |
| Creators | Abrat, Jack |
| Publisher | Kungl. Musikhögskolan, Institutionen för jazz |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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