Activity – Garrett Michaelsen

Garrett Michaelsen replied to the topic 2020 Meeting Ideas in the discussion Society for Music Theory – Jazz Interest Group on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months ago

Thanks for your comments, Keith and Marc. I think that they work well together, and perhaps could even be combined with my more modest suggestion of a socialization time. Part of our meeting could be devoted to saying hello and part to the workshop that Marc and Keith suggest. What do you all think?

And to Keith’s question about whether or not it…[Read more]
Garrett Michaelsen started the topic 2020 Meeting Ideas in the discussion Society for Music Theory – Jazz Interest Group on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months ago

Dear SMT Jazz,

I hope this message finds you well. I’ve been considering a number of different possibilities for our meeting at this year’s SMT/AMS over the past few months. At this point, our leadership has not yet decided whether the conference will be held in person or virtually due to the COVID pandemic. I think there is little chance that…[Read more]
Garrett Michaelsen replied to the topic V in Rhythm Changes in the discussion Society for Music Theory – Jazz Interest Group on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months ago

Ben:

Sorry for the extremely slow reply! I don’t think that one can give a generic answer. The concept of a chord relating more to ones that come before or after seems to me to be wrapped up in so much additional context that making such a determination on the basis of chord changes alone doesn’t make sense. Think of Gershwin’s original: in this…[Read more]
Garrett Michaelsen's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 3 years, 12 months ago
Garrett Michaelsen started the topic 2019 Meeting Report in the discussion Society for Music Theory – Jazz Interest Group on Humanities Commons 4 years ago

Dear SMT Jazz Interest Group members,

We conducted our 25th annual meeting in Columbus. Twenty-seven individuals attended. After my opening welcome—in which I hoped to convey that our group is open to everyone interested in jazz theory and analysis at any career stage—Janna Saslaw announced the winner of the Steve Larson Award for Jazz Sch…[Read more]
Garrett Michaelsen deposited Making “Anti-Music”: Divergent Interactional Strategies in the Miles Davis Quintet’s The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965 in the group Society for Music Theory – Jazz Interest Group on Humanities Commons 4 years ago

This article examines three improvisations by the Miles Davis Quintet from their recording The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965 through the lens of a new theory of musical interaction. It shows how the quintet favored divergent over convergent interactional strategies in the interpersonal, referent, role, and style domains in its quest to…[Read more]
Garrett Michaelsen deposited Making “Anti-Music”: Divergent Interactional Strategies in the Miles Davis Quintet’s The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965 on Humanities Commons 4 years ago

This article examines three improvisations by the Miles Davis Quintet from their recording The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965 through the lens of a new theory of musical interaction. It shows how the quintet favored divergent over convergent interactional strategies in the interpersonal, referent, role, and style domains in its quest to…[Read more]
Garrett Michaelsen started the topic SMT 2019 Meeting in the discussion Society for Music Theory – Jazz Interest Group on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month ago

Dear jazz interest group,

I’d like to officially announce the main topic of our meeting in Columbus this year and ask if you have any questions that we might consider as we plan. As I mentioned in an email to the old listserv earlier in the year, Dan Shanahan has graciously agreed to give us a workshop on corpus and computational methods of jazz…[Read more]
Garrett Michaelsen started the topic Milton Stewart in the discussion Society for Music Theory – Jazz Interest Group on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months ago

Dear collected wisdom of SMT Jazz,

Does anyone have any details on the life and work of Milton Lee Stewart? His 1973 dissertation “Structural Development in the Jazz Improvisational Technique of Clifford Brown” from University of Michigan might be the first detailed application of Schenkerian analysis to jazz improvisation (besides Forte’s 1958…[Read more]
Garrett Michaelsen deposited Chord-Scale Networks in the Music and Improvisations of Wayne Shorter in the group Society for Music Theory – Jazz Interest Group on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months ago

In this article, I examine the nonfunctional harmony of three tunes from the mid-1960s by Wayne Shorter from the perspective of transformational theory. While some transformational approaches to jazz have taken the seventh or ninth chord as the basic unit, I use the more inclusive and abstract concept of a “chord scale” to encompass more of the…[Read more]
Garrett Michaelsen deposited Rhythm Changes, Improvisation, and Chromaticism: Who Could Ask for Anything More? in the group Society for Music Theory – Jazz Interest Group on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months ago

This article discuss the ways rhythm changes can be used in music theory instruction.
Garrett Michaelsen deposited Groove Topics in Improvised Jazz in the group Society for Music Theory – Jazz Interest Group on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months ago

This chapter proposes an application of topic theory to jazz improvisation. It introduces the concept of a “groove topic” and defines the expressive correlations of a variety of common jazz grooves. The chapter then traces the unfolding groove topics in Miles Davis’s celebrated 1964 solo on “My Funny Valentine.”
Garrett Michaelsen deposited Chord-Scale Networks in the Music and Improvisations of Wayne Shorter on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months ago

In this article, I examine the nonfunctional harmony of three tunes from the mid-1960s by Wayne Shorter from the perspective of transformational theory. While some transformational approaches to jazz have taken the seventh or ninth chord as the basic unit, I use the more inclusive and abstract concept of a “chord scale” to encompass more of the…[Read more]
Garrett Michaelsen deposited Rhythm Changes, Improvisation, and Chromaticism: Who Could Ask for Anything More? on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months ago

This article discuss the ways rhythm changes can be used in music theory instruction.
Garrett Michaelsen deposited Improvising to Learn/Learning to Improvise: Designing Scaffolded Group Improvisations for the Music Theory Classroom on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months ago

This article discusses ways to create group improvisation activities in music theory curricula.
Garrett Michaelsen deposited Groove Topics in Improvised Jazz on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months ago

This chapter proposes an application of topic theory to jazz improvisation. It introduces the concept of a “groove topic” and defines the expressive correlations of a variety of common jazz grooves. The chapter then traces the unfolding groove topics in Miles Davis’s celebrated 1964 solo on “My Funny Valentine.”
Garrett Michaelsen created the group Society for Music Theory – Jazz Interest Group on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months ago
Garrett Michaelsen created the site Society for Music Theory – Jazz Interest Group on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months ago
Garrett Michaelsen's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 4 years, 12 months ago

Garrett Michaelsen

@gmichaelsen

Garrett Michaelsen

@gmichaelsen