Date of Award
2015
First Advisor
John Myers
Second Advisor
Larry Wallach
Third Advisor
Bernard Rodgers
Abstract
For all the musical genres available to a curious listener, few musicians are known for performing more than one musical language. In such a world, how does one discern the aspects of a musical language that make it preferable to one performer or another? Bi-musicality, the practice, study, and performance of more than one musical language, makes this a far more approachable question. As a bi-musical performer and multi-instrumentalist, I attempt to provide perspective regarding the differences between western classical and jazz, as both a vocalist and a saxophonist. Through a practical analysis of my preparatory practices, I dictate the differences in approach, attitude, structural analysis, and overall process of preparing each musical language. I also seek a more informed performance by addressing the histories and musical structure of each of the eight pieces I prepared for my senior recital, and describe my artistic decisions, and the reasons for those decisions, in order to give the best possible view of the musical process.
Recommended Citation
Larcqua, Jake, "BiMusicality: How to Eat Your Cake and Still Have It!" (2015). Senior Theses. 943.
https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/sr-theses/943
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