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"Caseworks" as performed by Cecil Taylor and the Art Ensemble of Chicago: A musical analysis and sociopolitical history

My political history of free jazz--the musical movement in which this piece resides--is centered around quotations from performers, supported by documentation from journalists, musicologists, anthropologists, and historians.

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  • "My political history of free jazz--the musical movement in which this piece resides--is centered around quotations from performers, supported by documentation from journalists, musicologists, anthropologists, and historians."@en
  • "I have created a descriptive score in which musical notation is aligned with a spectrograph of the entire eight minute piece. This makes possible the analysis of motivic development, harmonic progression, and formal construction. My analysis of the rhythmic language relies greatly on the accuracy of the notation produced by alignment with the spectrograph."@en
  • "This thesis also includes my musical composition "Suite for Big Band," which is scored for a traditional jazz big band plus a woodwind quintet. The work is based upon improvisation pieces I developed for smaller groups. The composed material reflects the improvisatory language I developed with these groups and includes sections for performers to improvise solos based upon the written material."@en
  • "The analysis of "Caseworks" poses several problems: (1) the music itself is inextricable from African American cultural history; (2) the music is improvised, and thus there is no score for analysis; and (3) efforts to transcribe the music show that traditional musical notation is inadequate to describe the rhythmic language."@en
  • "My musical analysis demonstrates that within the context of freedom and spontaneity, the work possesses a complete structural integrity which arises from strict motivic development, a clearly defined and consistent harmonic language, and a cohesive form. The rhythmic language reveals organic elements of form that are based on a musical esthetic which is essentially African American. The values intrinsic to the music (spontaneity, collective and co-operative creative activity, an integration of the intellectual, emotional, and physical selves, and a cyclical manner of conceptualizing rhythm, or groove) are an integral part of African American culture. The political history itself reveals a hostility towards the music, which arose from a conflict of values between the practitioners of African American culture and established cultural and economic institutions."@en

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  • ""Caseworks" as performed by Cecil Taylor and the Art Ensemble of Chicago: A musical analysis and sociopolitical history"@en
  • "Caseworks as performed by Cecil Taylor and the Art Ensemble of Chicago : a musical analysis and sociopolitical history"@en

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