John Graas' Symphony No. 1 in F Minor
Presented
by
DR. JEFFREY SNEDEKER
WEBINAR OVERVIEW
A presentation from the
Jazz Education Research and Practice Journal,
a publication of the Jazz Education Network.
Join Dr. Jeffrey Snedeker, Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Cincinnati’s College -Conservatory of Music (CCM), for a webinar that examines the relation between Claude Debussy’s harmonic and melodic techniques and those of post-bop jazz pianists through the analysis of selected piano pieces and transcriptions of important recordings that helped establish new aesthetics in jazz during the late fifties and early sixties. Similarities between Debussy’s modal techniques and hallmark traits of post-bop jazz harmony are discovered within the contributions that Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, and McCoy Tyner made to Miles Davis’s and John Coltrane’s small groups. The analysis presented in this article is intended to serve as a model on how jazz research can develop into pedagogical tools for jazz educators and performers aspiring to reach new levels of sophistication in their playing.
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ABOUT DR. JEFFREY SNEDEKER
Jeffrey Snedeker has taught French horn and music history at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington, since 1991. Jeff has performed on five continents, has released five solo CDs, and has over 50 publications on various topics, including articles on teaching improvisation in Jazz Education in Research and Practice, and on the history of the horn in jazz in the Encyclopaedia of Popular Music and The Horn Call: Journal of the International Horn Society. His jazz performance credits include two critically-acclaimed solo CDs, First Times and Minor Returns: Tributes to the Horn in Jazz, side work with Tom Varner, Arkady Shilkloper, and others, and numerous performances as a featured soloist, lecturer, and clinician at conferences of the International Horn Society, Historic Brass Society, and Northwest Horn Society, the Jazz in the Valley Festival, the Call of the Wild Festival, and other places that are open to jazz on the French horn. Jeff is also the curator of the John J. Graas Collection for the International Horn Society’s Online Music Sales.
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