Jazz Composition: Theory and Practice Book/Online Audio

Jazz harmony, as taught at the Berklee College of Music is based on the so called Chord Scale Theory. This method - further developed - is now available as a comprehensive textbook for the first time. Emerged from practice and designed for practical use, it provides theoretical knowledge necessary for improvisation, composing, and arranging. This comprehensive textbook is a must for beginners, intermediate or advanced students. It is quite logically constructed, very easy to comprehend, and the amount of necessary information contained in this pages is very impressive. It is also a helpful and organized tool that can aid any musician interested in understanding harmony as it relates to the complex subtleties of jazz improvisation. The high demands on today's professional musician requires a well-founded insight of the inner game of music. This method is reliable for analyzing different idioms of tonal music: jazz, pop, rock, and other contemporary styles, even the analysis of Western art music between 1650 and 1900 gains a new dimension. Enjoy the journey through the world of chord scales and jazz harmony When you think of jazz composers, who comes to mind? Jelly Roll Morton, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Bob Brookmeyer. This book is about what they (and many others) do. Jazz composition has evolved into a disciplined art that often evidences great emotional depth and breadth of sophistication. Berklee College of Music legend Ted Pease demystifies the processes involved in writing jazz tunes and in composing episodic and extended jazz works. Jazz Composition: Theory and Practice is a by-product of Pease's 25 years of teaching jazz composition. The accompanying CD helps demonstrate melody, harmony and rhythmic elements of jazz and also includes a variety of music-writing exercises focused on learning these same elements to help you begin producing your own effective jazz compositions. Introduction -- Review -- Melodic Considerations -- Harmonic Considerations -- Blues And Song Form -- Arranging And Formatting Considerations -- Metric Considerations -- Fusion -- Episodic Form -- Motivic Composition -- Extended Works. Ted Pease ; Edited By Rick Mattingly. Audio Examples On Accompanying Cd. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 236-237). In Jazz composition: theory and practice, Berklee College of Music Professor Ted Pease demystifies the processes involved in composing tunes as well as episodic and extended jazz works