![]() ![]() ![]() Bringing two or more contexts together stimulates new levels and types of connection, just as a melodic pattern continually recalibrates and interacts with potential harmonic and contrapuntal orientations. These differently related interpretive and perceptual contexts shape experience and call up orientations by which the music-structural aspects of a work can be construed and experienced. ![]() I follow potential tonal-harmonic alternatives (after Schoenberg and Berg on the chorale) and implications of staging a motivic parsing through timbre and articulation (after Webern). I consider its intertextual interactions with Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel’s setting of Nachspiel with her orchestration of public and private sonic worlds at the conclusion of her piano song cycle, Das Jahr. Inventing a Melody with Harmony - Tonal Potential and Bach’s Das alte Jahr vergangen ist BWV 614 Intensely chromatic and tonally open, Bach’s chorale prelude Das alte Jahr vergangen ist BWV 614 suggests different contexts of reception ‘as-music-analysis.’ I offer an imaginary reception of the prelude as liturgical-musical contemplation and religious experience. This exegesis contains (1) descriptive analysis of improvisation contained within a broad cross-section of Mehldau’s music (2) definition of a new analytical lexicon derived from a holistic study of consonance, dissonance, and research into perceived motivation in music and (3) prescriptive musical tools relating to consonance and dissonance that have informed the researcher’s performance. Non-academically oriented jazz writers and fans have consistently assigned these works vanguard status, but Mehldau’s output has not yet been sufficiently examined to prescribe performance methods. Among the most recent examples of this evolution, the works of Brad Mehldau as a solo/ensemble pianist and as a composer arguably embody some of the most compelling innovations in the field. ![]() As is the case for other genres, musicological analytic research on jazz evolution has lagged behind its practice consequently, there is a paucity of in-depth descriptive and analytic research on the music of recent innovators. Jazz has steadily evolved from its inception in the late 19th century to the present. ![]()
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