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Again, most of these are for the specialist, or those most avid about the subject...
  


                  
                  
Free
                     Jazz: Left by American Parents
                     on
                     European Doorsteps

                     
                     
Presented
                        at the 1997 conference of the College Music
                        Society in Vienna, this paper analyzes the
                        1991 Fire Music: A Bibliography of the New
                        Jazz, 1959--1990 (New York/Westport
                        CT/London: Greenwood Press) by John Gray for
                        a comparison of American and European
                        critical and press reception of the free
                        jazz/new-and-improvised music movement of
                        those years.

                     
                     

                     
                     

                     
                     

                  
                  

                     

                        
                           
 

                           
                           
Re:
                           German Improvised
                           Music:
                           

                        		
                     

                  

                   

                     

                        
                           

                           
                           
Two
                           Analyses of Schönberg Settings of
                           Poetry
                           

                           
                           

                        		
                     

                  

                   

                     

                        
                           


                              My
                              work as a scholar generally doesn't
                              include close analyses of composers via
                              pitch-class set theory and other such
                              engines. However, after hearing so much
                              German improvised music (including that
                              made by the voice), I got
                              interested--indeed, obsessed, during
                              the time it took to write these two
                              papers--with how Schönberg set
                              text to his own music.

                              

                        		
                     

                  

                   

                     

                        
                          
 

                           
                           
Time
                              is the Essence:
                               Analyzing
                              Free Improvisation

                              
                              

                                
This
                                  was delivered at a Society of
                                  Ethnomusicology chapter conference
                                  in the Northeast. It develops an
                                  approach to the analysis of free
                                  improvisation based on the work of
                                  German musicologist Dietrich Noll
                                  and American musicologist Lawrence
                                  Ferrara.
                                  It
                                      signals a significant and original
                                      part of my work: the discovery of
                                      symmetry and periodicity in the
                                      temporal flows of free
                                      improvisation, and the application
                                      of creative writing techniques to
                                  the analysis of the music.

                                


                                

                          

                        		
                     

                  

                   

                     

                        
                           

                           
                           
In
                              Time: 

                           Discursive
                              Arcs, Intertextual
                              Dialogics, Metatextual
                              Intrigues 

                              
                              

                                
Time,
                                  both musical and real, has been a
                                  recent research interest of mine,
                                  along with its natural correlate,
                                  historiography. This short paper
                                  looks at voices past and present
                                  from Ethno/Musicological discourse
                                on music historicization.

                                


                                

                              

                        		
                     

                  

                   

                     

                        
                           
 

                           
                           
The
                           End of Time
                            
                           

                           
                           
Survey
                                 of free-improv/jazz-pertinent
                                 English- and German-language
                                 literature on musical analysis and
                                 theory. It is the Introduction to
                                 Part III of my
                                 dissertation.