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SUMMARY:DH Seminar: "Charlie Parker\, Composer: Highlights and Controversi
 es"
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DESCRIPTION:Henry Martin\, Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University-Newar
 k\, composer and music theorist\nAbstract: \n“Charlie Parker\, Composer:
  Highlights and Controversies” is a presentation developed from my book 
 on Parker’s compositions\, published by Oxford University Press in 2020.
  Parker was one of the great jazz artists of the mid-twentieth century. Th
 e presentation begins with a discussion of the general problem of just wha
 t is a jazz composition\, and includes such topics as recordings vs. man
 uscripts\, plagiarism\, copyrighting an improvisation\, the function of th
 e Library of Congress\, extending a “composition” without the compose
 r's consent\, and improvisation vs. composing. As part of the presentation
 \, I show how Parker worked in the gray area between written and improvise
 d material\, “borrowed” the work of others\, had his own work “bor
 rowed\,” and left a legacy of well-known jazz compositions that continue
  to inspire jazz musicians and listeners.\n\n\nBio: \nHenry Martin\, Prof
 essor Emeritus at Rutgers University-Newark\, is well known as both a comp
 oser and a music theorist. His music has been described by Paul Griffiths 
 of The New York Times as “that of someone who knows and loves jazz to 
 its bones.” A frequent recipient of commissions\, he has composed for so
 lo piano and organ\, orchestra\, and chamber ensembles. His Preludes and 
 Fugues for piano\, a widely performed work\, won the 1992 National Compos
 ers Competition and the 1998 Barlow Foundation International Composition C
 ompetition. He is currently working on a series of works based on Dante’
 s Purgatorio.\n\nAmong Professor Martin’s books are Charlie Parker\,
  Composer (2020)\, Charlie Parker and Thematic Improvisation (1996)\, 
 Counterpoint: A Species Approach (2005) and Jazz: The First 100 Years\,
  co-authored with Keith Waters (3rd ed.\, 2010). His numerous articles ha
 ve appeared in distinguished journals\, among them Journal of Music Theor
 y\, Perspectives of New Music\, Music Theory Spectrum\, Annual Review o
 f Jazz Studies\, and Jazzforschung/Jazz Research. He founded the Jazz Th
 eory Interest Group of the Society of Music Theory (SMT) and has been co
 -editor of the Annual Review of Jazz Studies since 1995. He holds a Ph.D
 . from Princeton University. Prominent among his teachers have been David 
 Del Tredici and Milton Babbitt.
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