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Jazz Theory Jazz Theory: From Basic to Advanced Study is a comprehensive textbook 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. It includes a DVD with 46 Play Along audio tracks and a companion website, which hosts the workbook, ear training exercises, and audio tracks of the musical examples featured in the book. Key Features: • Includes 352 musical examples ranging from original lead sheets of standard tunes (“Autumn Leaves,” “Dream Dancing”), jazz instrumentals (“Confirmation,” “Moose the Mooche”), transcriptions (“Moose the Mooche,” “Line Up”), and original compositions (“Billie’s Dance,” “Infidels Bounce”), to fully realized harmonic progressions, sample solos, and reharmonized tunes (“All the Things You Are,” “Stella By Starlight”). • A DVD with 46 Play Along audio tracks featuring a Piano Trio, Guitar Trio, and Hammond B-3 Trio allows students to practice improvisations over different tunes and chord progressions. • Carefully graded exercises consisting of part-writing tasks, ear training drills, keyboard realization, melody harmonization, model composition, and improvisation. • Ear training exercises including rhythmic dictation, harmonic dictation, chord recognition, singing, and set-class identification. Dariusz Terefenko is Associate Professor of Jazz Studies and Contemporary Media at the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester. Jazz Theory: From Basic to Advanced Study is brilliantly organized, thoughtfully paced and sequenced, and concisely detailed. It is the most articulate and exhaustive exploration of jazz theory that I’ve witnessed, making it a terrific resource for classroom instructors, private teachers, and students wishing to tackle this broad subject independently. This superb text is a welcome gift to jazz education. Bravo Dariusz! —Fred Sturm, Professor of Jazz & Improvisational Music, Lawrence University Conservatory of Music This publication is the most comprehensive presentation I have seen that methodically illustrates the principals of Jazz theory and provides essential groundwork for musicianship skills. Professor Terefenko offers a valuable textbook for both instructors and students. —Pete Woodard, Professor of Jazz, University of Hartford I don’t think that I’ve ever seen a book on Jazz Theory that was this well written! Not only is it well-written, well-researched and thorough, it’s very accessible and understandable regardless of one’s age or level of experience. If someone asked me to recommend one book that would help them to be a better jazz musician, I would recommend this one without hesitation! —Dennis Mackrel, Musical Director of the Count Basie Orchestra Jazz Theory From Basic to Advanced Study Dariusz Terefenko Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester First published 2014 by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 and by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2014 Taylor & Francis The right of Dariusz Terefenko to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Terefenko, Dariusz, 1968-author. Jazz theory: from basic to advanced study/Dariusz Terefenko. pages cm Includes bibliographical references. 1. Jazz—Instruction and study. 2. Music theory. I. Title. MT6.T37 2014 781.65′12—dc23 2013031155 ISBN: 978-0-415-53759-9 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-415-53761-2 (pbk) ISBN: 978-0-203-38000-0 (ebk) Typeset in Galliard and Swiss 721 by Florence Production Ltd, Stoodleigh, Devon, UK Senior Editor: Constance Ditzel Assistant Editor: Denny Tek Editorial Assistant: Elysse Preposi Production Manager: Mhairi Bennett Marketing Manager: Cedric Sinclair Project Manager: Kelly Derrick Copy Editor: Sue Edwards Proofreader: Kilmeny MacBride Cover Design: Jayne Varney To my sister Natalia and my brother Zenon Contents Preface Acknowledgments PART ONE BASICS 1 Music Fundamentals Concepts and Terms Pitch Major Scales Key Signatures Minor Scales Rhythm Meter and Time Signatures Notating Rhythm Intervals Inversion of Intervals Triads Inversion of Triads Suspended Triad
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