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  • Exploring a Modified Fifths Tuning as a Vehicle for Composition for Jazz Guitar

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    Embargoed until: 2019-02-19
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    Vocaturo, Andrea
    Primary Supervisor
    Denson, Marjorie
    Dirie, Gerardo
    Year published
    2017-08
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    Throughout the history of the guitar, alternate tuning configurations have been extensively used as a creative vehicle in both performance and composition across a variety of musical genres, styles, and settings. This research examines the influence of a modified fifths tuning (MFT) on the compositional practice of a jazz guitarist and composer. Through musical analysis, this study aims to highlight how the idiosyncratic sonorities of the proposed tuning have been exploited to create original works with distinctive sound and resonance, thus contributing to the expansion of the tonal and harmonic palette of the guitar. ...
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    Throughout the history of the guitar, alternate tuning configurations have been extensively used as a creative vehicle in both performance and composition across a variety of musical genres, styles, and settings. This research examines the influence of a modified fifths tuning (MFT) on the compositional practice of a jazz guitarist and composer. Through musical analysis, this study aims to highlight how the idiosyncratic sonorities of the proposed tuning have been exploited to create original works with distinctive sound and resonance, thus contributing to the expansion of the tonal and harmonic palette of the guitar. The technical advantages and disadvantages of MFT and comparisons with standard guitar tuning are also addressed during the examination of individual compositions. By revealing the implications of a specific alternate tuning on the author’s creative processes and overall approach to composition and performance, this doctoral project intends to provide insights on the possible musical transformation this path can produce on any musician who is willing to take this approach to discover new sonic possibilities for the guitar and new models for composition. The appendices that accompany this dissertation have been compiled to provide other guitarists with a set of basic musical vocabulary, in the form of chord shapes, scales, and arpeggios, to enable them to navigate through the inner workings of MFT and other fifths-based configurations.
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    Thesis Type
    Thesis (Professional Doctorate)
    Degree Program
    Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA)
    School
    Queensland Conservatorium
    Copyright Statement
    The author owns the copyright in this thesis, unless stated otherwise.
    Subject
    Fifths tuning
    Composition
    Jazz guitar
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/371978
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