Hank Levy stands out among a handful of jazz composers from the 1960s and 1970s who stepped outside of the relative safety of writing music in 4/4 and 3/4 time signatures. His experiments with odd time signatures ...

This study illuminates Miles Davis and Gil Evans’s engagement with flamenco music, with a primary focus on the compositions “Saeta” and “Solea” from their collaborative album Sketches of Spain. This extraordinary album is ...

The purpose of this document is to introduce a novel way to learn a new piece of classical music by use of a jazz improvisational approach. Within this document, a jazz improvisational approach (JIA) is defined as a method ...

In 2014, Patricia Shehan Campbell convened the College Music Society’s Task Force on the Undergraduate Music Major (TFUMM). The task force, including lead author Ed Sarath, published a report called Transforming Music ...

This dissertation explores Brooklyn Babylon, a 2011 theatrical presentation by jazz composer Darcy James Argue and visual artist Danijel Žeželj, for musical elements related to contemporary expressions of nostalgia, ...

This document addresses the musical and professional development that pianist and composer Chick Corea underwent between the years 1964-1971. The recordings examined in this document demonstrate how Corea assimilated ...