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Giant Steps: Chord Substitutions and Chord-Scales for Improvisation
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Kasler, Ariel
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1395256969
Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2014, Master of Music (MM), Bowling Green State University, Music Performance/Jazz Studies.
Abstract
This thesis examines harmonic possibilities inherent in John Coltrane’s composition “Giant Steps” from the perspective of a jazz improviser. Chord-scales suggested by the chord progression and subsets of these chord-scales form a tool for analyzing segments of melodic improvisations over “Giant Steps” by the composer and by other significant jazz musicians. Common-tone possibilities created by the application of various chord-scales are explored theoretically and through analysis of performances. Additional chord substitutions that alter the harmonic rhythm are also studied. The chord substitution-based approach to improvisation and analysis presented here partially explains the continued interest in “Giant Steps” while also offering improvisers many ways to approach this composition.
Committee
Chris Buzzelli (Advisor)
Nora Engebretsen, Dr. (Committee Member)
Pages
95 p.
Subject Headings
Music
Keywords
Giant Steps
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Chord Substitution
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Chord-Scales
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Improvisation
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Ariel Kasler
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Music
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Jazz
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BGSU
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Bowling Green State University
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John Coltrane
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Kasler, A. (2014).
Giant Steps: Chord Substitutions and Chord-Scales for Improvisation
[Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1395256969
APA Style (7th edition)
Kasler, Ariel.
Giant Steps: Chord Substitutions and Chord-Scales for Improvisation.
2014. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1395256969.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Kasler, Ariel. "Giant Steps: Chord Substitutions and Chord-Scales for Improvisation." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1395256969
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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