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SUMMARY:DH Seminar: "Modernism\, Jazz\, Counterpoint: A Henry Martin Mix"
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DESCRIPTION:Henry Martin\, Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University-Newar
 k\, composer and music theorist\nAbstract: \nThis lecture analyzes my work
  as a composer. Unifying in retrospect the chaos of invention and the rand
 omness of circumstance\, I show how my work shifted from the high modernis
 m of the mid-twentieth century to a mix of bebop\, postbop\, counterpoint\
 , and traditional forms that represents me best as a musician. This shift 
 reconciled my two principal musical interests: the Western classical tradi
 tion and jazz. Re-focusing the past through the lens of the present\, and 
 highlighting a small group of my works\, I also show how my involvement wi
 th music theory affected me as a composer\, and present structural analyse
 s of what I think are especially interesting passages.\n\nThe event will b
 e followed by an apéro\n\n\nBio: \nHenry Martin\, Professor Emeritus at 
 Rutgers University-Newark\, is well known as both a composer and a music t
 heorist. His music has been described by Paul Griffiths of The New York T
 imes as “that of someone who knows and loves jazz to its bones.” A fr
 equent recipient of commissions\, he has composed for solo piano and organ
 \, orchestra\, and chamber ensembles. His Preludes and Fugues for piano\
 , a widely performed work\, won the 1992 National Composers Competition an
 d the 1998 Barlow Foundation International Composition Competition. He is 
 currently working on a series of works based on Dante’s Purgatorio.\n\n
 Among Professor Martin’s books are Charlie Parker\, Composer (2020)\
 , Charlie Parker and Thematic Improvisation (1996)\, Counterpoint: A Sp
 ecies Approach (2005) and Jazz: The First 100 Years\, co-authored with 
 Keith Waters (3rd ed.\, 2010). His numerous articles have appeared in dis
 tinguished journals\, among them Journal of Music Theory\, Perspectives 
 of New Music\, Music Theory Spectrum\, Annual Review of Jazz Studies\, a
 nd Jazzforschung/Jazz Research. He founded the Jazz Theory Interest Grou
 p of the Society of Music Theory (SMT) and has been co-editor of the An
 nual Review of Jazz Studies since 1995. He holds a Ph.D. from Princeton U
 niversity. Prominent among his teachers have been David Del Tredici and Mi
 lton Babbitt.
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