Martin Pfleiderer, Wolf-Georg Zaddach, Klaus Frieler
Pitch class hierarchies in Miles Davis’ »So What«: Reconsidering modal jazz improvisation with computer-based analysis tools
Beitrag zur Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung Halle/Saale 2015 – »Musikwissenschaft: die Teildisziplinen im Dialog«
In this paper, we investigated pitch class hierarchies in modal jazz improvisation within a case study of the solos and bass lines of »So What«. We were able to show that the tones played by Davis, Coltrane, and Adderley, as well as by Chambers, could be described as pitch class hierarchies …