Chromaticism in Late 19th c. music; a generative approach to Jazz Harmony

 

Required Readings

 

Richard Cohn, ""Mapping the Triadic Universe"," in Audacious Euphony: Chromatic Harmony and the Triad's Second Nature (Oxford University Press, 2012), 1–15.

 

David Kopp, ""A Chromatic Transformation System,"," in Chromatic Transformations in Nineteenth-Century Music (Cambridge University Press, 2002), 165–91.

 

Compare/Constrast Liszt, Consolation No. 3 (score)

Analysis by Kopp, 240-46.

Analysis by Cohn, 172-75, relies on map of his hexatonic system. Animated model of Liszt Consolation #3, second part.

 

Martin Rohrmeier, “The Syntax of Jazz Harmony: Diatonic Tonality, Phrase Structure, and Form.” Music Theory & Analysis 7/1 (2020), 1-62.

 

Suggested Readings

 

Richard Cohn, "Hexatonic Cycles," in Audacious Euphony: Chromatic Harmony and the Triad's Second Nature (Oxford University Press, 2012), 17–41.

 

Henry Martin, Jazz Theory and Analysis: An Overview and Brief Bibliography (2006)

 

Thomas Owens, "Analyzing Jazz." In The Cambridge Companion to Jazz, Mervyn Cooke and David Horn, edit.(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 286-97.

 

Keith J. Waters and J. Kent Williams, "Modeling Diatonic, Acoustic, Hexatonic, and Octatonic Harmonies and Progressions in Two- and Three-Dimensional Pitch Spaces; or Jazz Harmony after 1960," Music Theory Online 16/3 (2010)

 

Keith Waters, "Modes, Scales, Functional Harmony, and Nonfunctional Harmony in the Compositions of Herbie Hancock," Journal of Music Theory 49/2 (2005), 337–57.

 

Keith Waters, "Herbie Hancock," Postbop Jazz in the 1960s: The Compositions of Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, and Chick Corea (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019).

 

Steve Strunk, “Notes on Harmony in Wayne Shorter’s Compositions, 1964–67,” Journal of Music Theory 49:2 (2008): 301–32.

 

Keith Waters, "'Giant Steps' and the ic4 Legacy" Intégral 24 (2010): 135–62.

 

Keith Waters, Henry Martin, Steve Larson, Steven Strunk, "Circular Thinking—A Roundtable on 'Blue in Green' and 'Nefertiti'" Journal of Jazz Studies 11/1 (2016): 105-120.

 

Steve Strunk, “Tonal and Transformational Approaches to Chick Corea’s Compositions of the 1960s” Music Theory Spectrum 38/1 (2016): 16-36.

 

Keith Waters, "Chick Corea and Post-Bop Harmony" Music Theory Spectrum 38/1 (2016): 37-57.

 

Garrett Michaelsen, "Chord-Scale Networks in the Music and Improvisations of Wayne Shorter"Gamut Gamut 8/1 (2018): 123–88.