Jazz Theory

Editor: Terefenko, Dariusz
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: Routledge

Single-User Purchase Price: $180.00
Unlimited-User Purchase Price: Not Available
ISBN: 978-0-41-553759-9
Category: Arts & Leisure - Music
Image Count: 783
Book Status: Available
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This comprehensive textbook is ideal for Jazz Theory courses or as a self-study guide for amateur and professional musicians. Written with the goal of bridging theory and practice, it provides a strong theoretical foundation beginning with music fundamentals through post-tonal theory, while integrating ear training, keyboard skills, and improvisation.

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Table of Contents

  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • PART ONE BASICS
  • 1 Music Fundamentals
  • 2 Jazz Rhythm
  • 3 Harmonic Function
  • 4 Four-Part Chords
  • 5 Five-Part Chords
  • 6 The II-V-I Progression
  • 7 Modes
  • 8 Chord-Scale Theory
  • 9 The Blues
  • 10 Improvisation
  • PART TWO INTERMEDIATE
  • 11 Jazz Lead Sheets
  • 12 Keyboard Textures
  • 13 Idiomatic Jazz Progressions
  • 14 Voicings
  • 15 Bebop
  • 16 Octatonic Scales
  • 17 Bebop Blues
  • 18 “Confirmation”
  • 19 “Moose the Mooche”
  • PART THREE ADVANCED
  • 20 Pentatonics and Hexatonics
  • 21 Phrase Models
  • 22 The AABA Song Form
  • 23 The ABAC Song Form
  • 24 Extended and Unusual Song Forms
  • 25 Jazz Reharmonization
  • 26 “Line Up”
  • 27 Post-Tonal Jazz
  • Appendix A Play Along DVD
  • Bibliography
  • Credits