Thesis
The technique of Coleman Hawkins: rhythm, harmony, melody, development
- Abstract:
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Sonny Rollins estimates that even in the 21st century, the music of Coleman Hawkins ‘is in everybody that’s playing saxophone’. The instrumental technique Hawkins developed for the tenor saxophone has been adopted, in some way or the other, by most jazz saxophonists. But Hawkins was also a master of the theoretical principles governing tonal music and of their application within the confines of improvised swinging music. This second aspect of his technique is the subject of this thesis, wh...
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Contributors
+ Clarke, E
- Role:
- Supervisor
+ Givan, B
- Role:
- Examiner
+ Maw, D
- Role:
- Examiner
- ORCID:
- 0000-0002-1357-3444
+ Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
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- Funder identifier:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001711
- Funding agency for:
- Stoll, LT
- Grant:
- P1SKP1_178104
+ Carolyn and Franco Gianturco
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- Funding agency for:
- Stoll, LT
- Grant:
- Gianturco Scholarship, Linacre College
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
- Language:
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English
- Deposit date:
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2021-11-03
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- Copyright holder:
- Stoll, LT
- Copyright date:
- 2021
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