John Adams - Modes, Jazz Chords & Slonimsky

John Adams is one of the most performed living composers. From his origins as a minimalist his music has developed incorporating late romantic sounds, and jazz harmonies. Here I look through some of the approaches he has taken to harmony throughout his career.


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Research
Process vs. Intuition in the Recent Works of Steve Reich and John Adams by K. Robert Schwarz
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3052096?...


Counterpoint and Polyphony in Recent Instrumental Works of John Adams by Alexander Sanchez-Behar


Musical Aesthetics and Creative Identification in Two Harmonielehren by John Adams and Arnold Schoenberg
Scott M. Strovas

Slonimsky's Thesaurus
https://www.amazon.com/Thesaurus-Melo...

Process vs. Intuition in the Recent Works of Steve Reich and John Adams by K. Robert Schwarz
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3052096?...

Interview with John Adams
https://web.archive.org/web/200702050...

Quincy Jones Interview
http://www.vulture.com/2018/02/quincy...

Performances:
John Adams - Phrygian Gates
   • [1] John Adams - Phrygian Gates  

John Adams - Chairman Dances
   • Видео  

John Adams - Shaker Loops
   • Видео  

John Adams - Harmonielehre
   • John Adams - Harmonielehre Part I (2/2)  

Steve Reich - Music for Mallets instruments Voices and Organ
   • Видео  

Philip Glass - Music in Fifths
   • Видео