Analysis of Jazz

A Comprehensive Approach

Laurent Cugny

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University Press of Mississippi
21 March 2019

Theory of music & musicology; Music reviews & criticism; Jazz

Series: American Made Music Series

Analysis of Jazz: A Comprehensive Approach, originally published in French as Analyser le jazz, is available here in English for the first time. In this groundbreaking volume, Laurent Cugny examines and connects the theoretical and methodological processes that underlie all of jazz. Jazz in all its forms has been researched and analyzed by performers, scholars, and critics, and Analysis of Jazz is required reading for any serious study of jazz; but not just musicians and musicologists analyze jazz. All listeners are analysts to some extent. Listening is an active process; it may not involve questioning but it always involves remembering, comparing, and listening again. This book is for anyone who attentively listens to and wants to understand jazz.

Divided into three parts, the book focuses on the work of jazz, analytical parameters, and analysis. In part one, Cugny aims at defining what a jazz work is precisely, offering suggestions based on the main features of definition and structure. Part two he dedicates to the analytical parameters of jazz in which a work is performed: harmony, rhythm, form, sound, and melody. Part three takes up the analysis of jazz itself, its history, issues of transcription, and the nature of improvised solos. In conclusion, Cugny addresses the issues of interpretation to reflect on the goals of analysis with regard to understanding the history of jazz and the different cultural backgrounds in which it takes place.

Analysis of Jazz presents a detailed inventory of theoretical tools and issues necessary for understanding jazz.

By: Laurent Cugny
Imprint: University Press of Mississippi
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 233mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 765g
ISBN: 9781496821881
ISBN 10: 1496821882
Series: American Made Music Series
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 21 March 2019
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Laurent Cugny is a musician and professor of music and musicology at Sorbonne University. He has toured and recorded with Gil Evans and conducted the French Orchestre National de Jazz and is author of several books, including Eurojazzland: Jazz and European Sources, Dynamics, and Contexts.

Reviews for Analysis of Jazz: A Comprehensive Approach

This work by the accomplished French composer, historian, and Sorbonne professor Laurent Cugny has been long awaited. It is not only informative, but thought-provoking as well. Cugny does not merely lecture to us, but raises and addresses numerous fundamental questions, from how to identify jazz to the problems of transcription to the purpose of analysis, and more. This book should be read closely and discussed by all musicians--professional as well as amateur--and educators.--Lewis Porter, jazz pianist, author, and educator Laurent Cugny's Analysis of Jazz: A Comprehensive Approach is a masterful explication of what jazz is and what makes it tick. Compliments to University Press of Mississippi for bringing this important work to an American readership. Formidable and insightful.--Bruce Boyd Raeburn, curator emeritus, Hogan Jazz Archive, Tulane University