Duke Ellington Jazz Composer
- Author : Ken Rattenbury
- Publisher : Yale University Press
- File Size : 47,8 Mb
- Release : 01 January 1990
- ISBN : 0300055072
- Page : 356 pages
Summary: Duke Ellington Jazz Composer PDF is a Fantastic Biography & Autobiography book by Ken Rattenbury. It was published by Yale University Press on 01 January 1990. This Book has 356 pages and Available to download in PDF, EPUB and Kindle Format. Read detail book and summary below and click download button to get book file and read directly from your devices.
American composer, pianist and orchestra leader Duke Ellington was the first genuine jazz composer of truly international status. In this book Ken Rattenbury offers a thorough musical analysis of Ellington's works, assessing the extent to which Ellington drew on the black music traditions of blues and ragtime and the music of Tin Pan Alley, and examining how he integrated black folk music practices with elements of European art music. Rattenbury investigate's Ellington's methods of composition, focusing on works written, performed and recorded between 1939 and 1941, years that witnessed the full flowering of Ellington's genius. He also discusses the criteria Ellington used to select his musicians.
