Part 1 in a series I put together a while back on #polytonality: https://glennwhite.net/blog/polytonality-1
#music #theory #musictheory #jazz #improv #improvisation #bitonality #multitonic
#polytonality #music #theory #musictheory #jazz #improv #improvisation #bitonality #multitonic
Polytonality series, part 4 - common ground between Vincent Persichetti and Jerry Bergonzi: https://glennwhite.net/blog/polytonality-4
#music #theory #musictheory #polytonal #polytonality #bitonal #bitonality #multitonic #jazz #improvisation #saxophone
#music #theory #musictheory #polytonal #polytonality #bitonal #bitonality #multitonic #jazz #improvisation #saxophone
Polytonality series, part 3: https://glennwhite.net/blog/polytonality-3
#music #theory #musictheory #polytonal #polytonality #bitonal #bitonality #improv #improvisation #multitonic #saxophone
#music #theory #musictheory #polytonal #polytonality #bitonal #bitonality #improv #improvisation #multitonic #saxophone
Part 2 of my series on polytonality: https://glennwhite.net/blog/polytonality-2
#music #theory #musictheory #polytonal #polytonality #bitonal #bitonality #improv #improvisation #jazz #saxophone
#music #theory #musictheory #polytonal #polytonality #bitonal #bitonality #improv #improvisation #jazz #saxophone
Several years ago, I compiled a writing sample as an application to a PhD program. I didn't get in, but I still think the series is good. Here's the first installment: https://glennwhite.net/blog/polytonality-1
#music #theory #musictheory #polytonality #polytonal #jazz #saxophone #improvisation #improv #harmony #bitonality #bitonal
#music #theory #musictheory #polytonality #polytonal #jazz #saxophone #improvisation #improv #harmony #bitonality #bitonal
Toward the end of his life, after having resisted #atonality (for want of a better term) for about 50 years, and kept #tonality alive through various "tricks" (#polytonality, #polyrhythm, ironic use of classical forms and citations, #collage... all devices which Bernstein once nicknamed "#tonal refreshers"), Stravinsky, whose personal beliefs were becoming increasingly religious & mystic, finally caved in to #dodecaphonic and #serial techniques, albeit in an idiosyncratically Stravinskian way...
#atonality #tonality #polytonality #polyrhythm #collage #tonal #dodecaphonic #serial
For English speakers wishing to engage further with #Stravinsky's #music, there's a brilliant & enthusiastic (in one word, Bernsteinian!) introduction to "L'Histoire du Soldat" (and to the #composer's work and the significance of #polytonality in modern musical discourse) in the last segment of Leonard #Bernstein's Norton lectures at Harvard - which deserve to be watched in full, as to me at least they have represented a crucial step in my understanding and love of music!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWeQXTnv_xU
#stravinsky #music #composer #polytonality #bernstein