Theorie in Jazz und Klassik

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Subject according curriculum

Theory in Jazz and Classical Music

Teachers

Prof. Sebastian Sprenger

Scope

Thursday, 1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Start date: October 8, 2026

Room

BP 201

Duration

eine Semesterwochenstunde

Description

Connections between fundamental (melodic, harmonic, rhythmic, etc.) phenomena in Western art music and jazz, e.g., figured bass and comping; mutual influences and interactions, e.g., the influence of late Romantic and Impressionist harmony, the 12-tone technique, and the modal soundscape of Olivier Messiaen on the development of jazz music; parallel developments in the 20th and 21st centuries, e.g., various forms of microtonality in the works of Ivan Vyshnegradsky, Julián Carrillo, and Harry Partch (among others), as well as in those of Nils Wogram, Jacob Collier, David Fiuczynski, and Philipp Gerschlauer; a comparison of polyrhythmic techniques, for example, in the works of György Ligeti and Tigran Hamasyan; Influences from non-Western traditions (e.g., South Indian modality and rhythm in the work of Vijay Iyer), asymmetrical and diatonic rhythms in an intercultural comparison (Simha Arom’s aksak typology); (re-)harmonization techniques

Literature

Petzold, Matthias: Harmony in Jazz Improvisation, Brühl 2021
Terefenko, Dariusz: Jazz Theory: From Basic to Advanced Study, New York (Routledge) 2018
Tymoczko, Dmitri: A Geometry of Music: Harmony and Counterpoint in the Extended Common Practice, Oxford University Press 2011

Credits

2 Creditpoints

Comments

Registration:
https://elearning.hfmt-hamburg.de/course/view.php?id=517
Registration code: Jazz

This seminar is a two-semester course that begins in the winter semester of each year.

Required course for the BA in Jazz; qualified applicants from other academic divisions may also participate. Prerequisite: successful completion of the final exam in Jazz Fundamentals

Modules

Musiktheorie 2 Jazz