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Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano Piano Concerto for the Left Hand Piano Concerto in G: Sergei Rachmaninoff: 1934 Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini: Erwin Schulhoff: 1921 1927 1935 Suite for Chamber Orchestra Violin Sonata No. 2 H.M.S. Royal Oak Gunther Schuller: 1959 1960 1962 Concertino for jazz quartet and orchestra Variants for jazz quartet ...
Jazz improvisation is the spontaneous invention of melodic solo lines or accompaniment parts in a performance of jazz music. It is one of the defining elements of jazz. Improvisation is composing on the spot, when a singer or instrumentalist invents melodies and lines over a chord progression played by rhythm section instruments (piano, guitar ...
George Allen Russell (June 23, 1923 – July 27, 2009) was an American jazz pianist, composer, arranger and theorist. He is considered one of the first jazz musicians to contribute to general music theory with a theory of harmony based on jazz rather than European music, in his book Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization (1953). [ 1]
Trombone, cello. Years active. 1950s–2016. David Nathaniel Baker Jr. (December 21, 1931 – March 26, 2016) was an American jazz composer, conductor, and musician from Indianapolis, as well as a professor of jazz studies at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Baker is best known as an educator and founder of the jazz studies program.
Concerto da Camera for chamber ensemble (1991) 5 Intermezzi from the opera Glaube Liebe Hoffnung (1995) Symphony No. 4 "Belfast" (2000); fragment; Concertante. Capriccio for piano and small orchestra (1977) Concerto for violin and 9 stringed instruments (1979) Concerto for guitar and jazz ensemble (tenor saxophone, trombone, double bass, drums ...
The white-note major and minor pentatonic scales. Two pentatonic scales common to jazz are the major pentatonic scale and the minor pentatonic scale. They are both modes of one another. The major pentatonic scale begins with a major scale and omits the fourth and the seventh scale degrees.
The Brandenburg Concertos ( BWV 1046–1051) by Johann Sebastian Bach are a collection of six instrumental works presented by Bach to Christian Ludwig, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt, in 1721 (though probably composed earlier). The original French title is Six Concerts Avec plusieurs instruments, meaning "Six Concertos for several instruments".
Concerto in F (Gershwin) Concerto in F is a composition by George Gershwin for solo piano and orchestra which is closer in form to a traditional concerto than his earlier jazz-influenced Rhapsody in Blue. It was written in 1925 on a commission from the conductor and director Walter Damrosch. A full performance lasts around half an hour.