Jazz Interpretations of Classical Musical Works

Year 2024, Volume: 11 Issue: 2, 559 - 583, 25.12.2024

Stacy Olive Jarvis

https://doi.org/10.26650/CONS2024-1528675

Abstract

This study aims to elucidate the interpretation of jazz music within the classical mu sic domain through specific works, examining the improvisations and arrangements of jazz music on compositions from various periods of classical music. It assesses themes of improvisation in both classical and jazz music, as well as the interpretations of jazz music within aclassical context. The selected musical material provides an op portunity for analytical examination of various forms of classical music representation in piano jazz and identifying the mechanisms of ‘translating’ academic compositions into thelanguageofjazzart.Theresearchdemonstratesthatthetransformationofclas sical sources occurs at intonational, harmonic-modal, metrorhythmic, and structural levels. By characterising piano jazz and tracing its multifaceted history, the author highlights the main directions characteristic of performance on this instrument.

Keywords

Classical music, improvisational art, interpretation, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, ‘jazzing the classics’, jazz arrangements

Caz Yorumunda Klasik Müzik

Abstract

Bu çalışma, klasik müziğin çeşitli dönemlerine ait besteler üzerinde caz müziğinin doğaçlama ve düzenlemelerini inceleyerek, klasik müzik alanında caz müziğinin yorumlanmasını belirli eserler üzerinden aydınlatmayı amaçlamaktadır. Hem klasik hem de caz müziğindeki doğaçlama temalarının yanı sıra caz müziğinin klasik bağlamdaki yorumlarıdadeğerlendiriliyor.Seçilenmüzikalmateryal,piyanocazındaklasikmüzik temsilinin çeşitli biçimlerinin analitik olarak incelenmesi ve akademik bestelerin caz sanatının diline ’tercüme’ mekanizmalarının belirlenmesi için bir fırsat sunuyor. Araştırma, klasik kaynakların dönüşümünün entonasyonel, armonik-modal, metroritmik ve yapısal seviyelerde gerçekleştiğini göstermektedir. Yazar, piyano cazını karakterize ederek ve çok yönlü tarihinin izini sürerek, bu enstrümandaki performansın karakteristik ana yönlerini vurgulamaktadır.

Keywords

Klasik müzik, doğaçlama sanatı, yorumlama, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, ’klasikleri cazlaştırmak’, caz düzenlemeleri

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