I recommend "The Jazz Piano Book" by Mark Levine. Even though it's a piano book, it is really as much an applied theory book. I read this about 15 years ago, and it was great in presenting material I already knew in a logical, concise way, and also in presenting some interesting new material.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0961470151/002-6698441-6121652?v=glance&...
This guy also has a book strictly on jazz theory, I haven't read it but I assume it's also good.
Basically, I need to make the disclaimer that theory is a trap in jazz. Intuitive things tend to occur within improvisations, that theorists are only beginning to understand. Also, bear in mind that the theory people have discussed so far, would be of limited help in dissecting most jazz in the last 50 years - such as a typical performance by the classic John Coltrane Quartet. So if you aren't writing a thesis on the theory, you really need to spend much more time listening to records and trying to see if you can imitate what you hear; Especially important to remember is that a lot of jazz is essentially polytonal - i.e. due to substitutions, the bass, piano, and horn player may for some spaces each be playing on DIFFERENT sets of changes!
To get back to PD: An AI interface that allowed for this would be far more interesting than one that had all parts always performing identical harmonies... The basic idea is that certain key points are convergence points, such as the I chord at the top of the form - but in between each instrument might veer off into their own interpretation of the harmony. Such an approach sometimes works better with no piano player plunking out chords
- but some piano players are more flexible than others.
~David
On 8/13/06, Chuckk Hubbard badmuthahubbard@gmail.com wrote:
I don't really know any good references offhand. My degree is going to actually be in "jazz composition," but I've never written jazz, lol, and I didn't retain much from those classes (only due to a criminally lazy teacher). Jamie Aebersold is a standard; I know jazzheads who curse his name, but these same people have spent a lot of time learning to play the changes regardless. You'll also never run out of Aebersold CDs. For some strange reason I can find no Wikipedia page devoted to jazz theory. I guess the experts are all too busy smoking reefer and running with fast women! Hmph!
-Chuckk
On 8/13/06, Kyle Klipowicz kyleklip@gmail.com wrote:
On the topic of all this music theory and harmonic discussion, I realized that I need to expand my knowledge of this area. I've played piano/guitar/bassoon for some years, but never got deep into that rich area of chord theory that seems to be on topic right now.
Is there any good (and free) online resource or lesson guide (preferably interactive) that I could train myself with? I just started reading Machine Music by Robert Rowe, and this knowledge would help me follow that text as well as the current discussion.
~Kyle
On 8/13/06, patco megalegoland@yahoo.fr wrote:
Chuckk Hubbard badmuthahubbard@gmail.com a écrit :
maybe it would be possible to simply have a melodic part that occasionally receives information about harmonic changes before the harmonic part does
In jazz music when we are accompagnating a melody, we use voices, for example a chord with four tones
eg: C E G B
could be played with three other combinations:
E G B C, G B C E, and B C E G
The highest note of the voice would be the note used in the melody. this example is one of the simpliest, we could also use the same way with thirteen chords, with seven sounds instead of four sounds, then there would have seven combinations for each chord.
In fact we can give any color we like to a melody, it just depend on what kind of mode we are using for accompagnating it.
eg: in 'Autumn Leaves' the first note is the third of the first
chord,
then it gives a sad color (minor third), but we can give another
color
with using another chord, for example we could use G7 instead of Dm:
Dm - G7 - CM7 - FM7 - Bm7b5 - E7 - Am becomes G7 - C#° - FM7 - Bb7#5 - Dm7 - Dm7M
and then the automn leaves melody would sound more 'myxolydian'.
Notice that some chords has to be modified for sounding better in
that
weird harmonic context.
Patco.
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