Walter van de Leur (currently worki An independent jazz researcher

Something to Live for

The Music of Billy Strayhorn

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Produktbeschreibung

'Something to Live For' investigates and analyses the entire oeuvre of Billy Strayhorn, who, for over 30 years, was the musical collaborator of Duke Ellington. Nearly 70 music examples, drawn directly from his original autograph scores, provide insight into the development of Strayhorn's own musical language and style.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 245mm x 165mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 702g
• ISBN-13: 9780195124484
• ISBN-10: 0195124480
• Artikelnr.: 22695124

Autorenporträt

Walter van de Leur is the artistic co-leader of the Dutch Jazz Orchestra, in Hilversum, The Netherlands; a coordinator at the Dutch Jazz Archive in Amsterdam; he is also the founder editor of Billy Strayhorn Manuscript Editions (BSME) in Pittsburgh.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Fantastic Rhythm: The Pittsburgh Years
* 2: The Renaissance of Arranging: First Works for and with Duke
Ellington
* 3: The Strayhorn Effect: A New Way of Writing for Jazz Orchestra
* 4: Thinking with the Ear: Strayhorn's Musical Fingerprints
* 5: Writing and Arranging Companions: Credited and Uncredited
Collaborations
* 6: "He is He and I am Me": The Ellington-Strayhorn Collaboration
* 7: Wounded Love: Away from the Ellington Organization
* 8: Masterpieces by STrayhorn: Writing for Albums
* 9: The Whodunnit Game: The Mature Style of Billy Strayhorn
* 10: North by Southwest: The Final Years
* 11: Conclusion
* Appendix A: Score of Scores: Manuscripts at the Duke Ellinton and
Billy Strayhorn Collections
* Appendix B: Billy Strayhorn's Works on Record
* Appendix C: Billy Strayhorn's Works on Record (posthumously
premiered)
* Appendix D: The Compositions of Billy Strayhorn