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Jazz as
autonomous music
That jazz
acquired status as autonomous music with bebop is the understanding of many
jazz historians today. Does it mean that all of jazz must be understood as
autonomous music as it has been suggested? Or is it rather a part of the
effort known as jazz: America's classical music?
Well, it is perhaps not sure if we have a common understanding of what
autonomous music is. And what about musicians in early jazz like for instance
Duke Ellington, who frequently took a position in direct opposition to the
idea of autonomous music?
On the basis of a short bibliography and a selection of citations from the
jazz literature and the general music literature the paper is discussing
these questions.
Published August 2007
Jazz is only a word and has no meaning...
The Duke Ellington pages of
the site
with:
- Index to Music is My Mistress with more than 4600 references.
Republished January 2005
- Key to Ellington's production as a composer. Updated
June 2006
- Discussion of the work of Duke Ellington. Published January 2005
- www portal to Duke Ellington
Databases
as a tool for discographical and historical jazz studies
The general use of databases as a tool for jazz studies is still only for
experts, even if there are so much data connected to the study of the music
that databases are an obvious tool for the it.
For information
on historical and technical aspect of discographies go to www.JazzDiscography.com. However, the use of databases is
not limited to discographies only, they are also very efficient for matters
like ouevres of composers, bibliographies, notes on the music etc.
You are welcome to discuss such matters with the editor - the e-mail address
is below. In the meantime on this site contains the article:
Line-ups in a discographical relational database
How can
information on line-ups be stored in a relational database in such a way that
the rules of normalization with regard to consistence, reduction of redundancy
as well as the traditions of the jazz discography are considered at the same
time?
The article presents a solution for this problem that is
simple and reduces the typing work considerably at the same time.
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