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The Impressionist musical influence on jazz musicians has long been noted. This book, originally written as a doctoral dissertation for the New England Conservatory, offers the first—and only—analytical proof of this connection. Everything in this 90-page scholarly study is documented, including bibliographies, detailed analysis of specific musical examples, and a chapter on modality, tracing such 20th century salient characteristic devices as: quartal harmony, unresolved melodic tensions, pedal points, pitch collections, non-functional chord successions, bitonal and polytonal relationships, and much more.
