Jazz'mony

Do you have some knowledge about jazz theory or harmonic analysis?

If you do not, let me explain to you I find really essential to study this way in music.

It’s all about listening. When you listen to something, you listen to it on a different level each time, depending on your cultural experience, your familiarity with the song, your musical training, etc.

Theory and analysis provides a new type of listening. Once you passed the stage of studying and analysing and you completely understood the piece, you reach a higher level in your listening experience and you can truly and fully enjoy the music without thinking but still entirely being aware of what is happening.

With this being said, you’re you are probably asking yourself “what does his master’s degree have to do with this?” With my research, I want to find the adequate analysis for a song since not every analysis works for every song.

I work on post-bop very innovative jazz genre in the 1960 that deserves some special attention. Miles Davis and his Second Quintet are representative of this period because most of the new material came up with them.

But the analyses of many of Miles' compositions that I have found in literature are not entirely convincing, because they argue that a certain composition is blue when it is actually tending more towards red. Some researchers apply the analytical tool for blue over red but this analysis does not account for the listening. I want to revise this approach and suggest my own analysis who combines harmony, semiotics and linguistic tools.