• Salience, Common Tones, and Middleground Dissonance in the Fourth Chorus of Brad Mehldau’s Improvisation on “All the Things You Are”

    Author(s):
    Rich Pellegrin (see profile)
    Date:
    2023
    Group(s):
    Society for Music Theory – Jazz Interest Group
    Subject(s):
    Jazz, Music theory, Musicology, Mehldau, Brad, Musical analysis
    Item Type:
    Article
    Permanent URL:
    https://doi.org/10.17613/ywrx-ds93
    Abstract:
    This article addresses the analytical fault line between Schenkerian and Salzerian approaches to tonal jazz through an analysis of a Brad Mehldau improvisation on “All the Things You Are.” Special attention is given to the usage of common tones, which often work against the resolving tendencies of unstable chord tones but create their own large-scale structure. The essay engages with work of Fred Lerdahl and is informed by my model, Stable Norms and Salient Deviations (SNSD). HTML version of the article, which includes audio examples, is available here: https://www.esm.rochester.edu/integral/36-2023/pellegrin/
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    Published as:
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    Pub. Date:
    6/2/2023
    Journal:
    Intégral: The Journal of Applied Musical Thought
    Volume:
    36
    Page Range:
    247 - 261
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    4 months ago
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