Salley Presents ‘The Schemata of Jazz’s Standard Repertoire’ at Meeting of the American Musicological Society and the Society for Music Theory
On Saturday, Nov. 3, Coordinator of Music Theory and Associate Professor of Music Keith Salley, Ph.D., presented “The Schemata of Jazz’s Standard Repertoire” at the bi-annual joint meeting of the American Musicological Society and the Society for Music Theory. Dr. Salley’s presentation discussed recurrent alignments of harmonic, rhythmic and melodic features that create recognizable and stylistically expressive constructs in standard jazz repertoire, and a continuation of research he began during his sabbatical in 2015. This research involves a corpus study of thousands of ‘fake book’ arrangements, and considers perceptual principles of Gestalt psychology to generalize these recurrent constructs into categories called ‘schemata.’
