MLA Commons | Garrett Michaelsen | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/gmichaelsen/activity/ Activity feed for Garrett Michaelsen. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:37:02 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 e806f8b72d95e0d4d029ae066b0af040 Garrett Michaelsen replied to the topic 2020 Meeting Ideas in the discussion Society for Music Theory – Jazz Interest Group https://hcommons.org/groups/society-for-music-theory-jazz-interest-group/forum/topic/2020-meeting-ideas/#post-32428 Wed, 17 Jun 2020 13:57:05 -0400 Thanks for your comments, Keith and Marc. I think that they work well together, and perhaps could even be combined with my more modest suggestion of a socialization time. Part of our meeting could be devoted to saying hello and part to the workshop that Marc and Keith suggest. What do you all think?

And to Keith’s question about whether or not it…[Read more]

]]> 0 cafa8d9f46f1ae563ddb5e50e5e59b58 Garrett Michaelsen started the topic 2020 Meeting Ideas in the discussion Society for Music Theory – Jazz Interest Group https://hcommons.org/groups/society-for-music-theory-jazz-interest-group/forum/topic/2020-meeting-ideas/ Wed, 10 Jun 2020 13:30:55 -0400 Dear SMT Jazz,

I hope this message finds you well. I’ve been considering a number of different possibilities for our meeting at this year’s SMT/AMS over the past few months. At this point, our leadership has not yet decided whether the conference will be held in person or virtually due to the COVID pandemic. I think there is little chance that…[Read more]

]]> 0 22ae96840144aac9eee71b9e6d91d0aa Garrett Michaelsen replied to the topic V in Rhythm Changes in the discussion Society for Music Theory – Jazz Interest Group https://hcommons.org/groups/society-for-music-theory-jazz-interest-group/forum/topic/v-in-rhythm-changes/#post-28339 Fri, 24 Jan 2020 15:16:03 -0500 Ben:

Sorry for the extremely slow reply! I don’t think that one can give a generic answer. The concept of a chord relating more to ones that come before or after seems to me to be wrapped up in so much additional context that making such a determination on the basis of chord changes alone doesn’t make sense. Think of Gershwin’s original: in this…[Read more]

]]> 0 ee4c00bff6909f185bfec405d797b8f7 Garrett Michaelsen's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1671489/ Fri, 06 Dec 2019 15:09:21 -0500 0 bc10c3b070b62970c90f8e52bcb9bd6e Garrett Michaelsen started the topic 2019 Meeting Report in the discussion Society for Music Theory – Jazz Interest Group https://hcommons.org/groups/society-for-music-theory-jazz-interest-group/forum/topic/2019-meeting-report/ Fri, 22 Nov 2019 16:09:43 -0500 Dear SMT Jazz Interest Group members,

We conducted our 25th annual meeting in Columbus. Twenty-seven individuals attended. After my opening welcome—in which I hoped to convey that our group is open to everyone interested in jazz theory and analysis at any career stage—Janna Saslaw announced the winner of the Steve Larson Award for Jazz Sch…[Read more]

]]> 0 1bd60426e9f797adf23e703ad1b72293 Garrett Michaelsen deposited Making “Anti-Music”: Divergent Interactional Strategies in the Miles Davis Quintet’s The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965 in the group Society for Music Theory – Jazz Interest Group https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1670651/ Thu, 21 Nov 2019 16:25:40 -0500 This article examines three improvisations by the Miles Davis Quintet from their recording The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965 through the lens of a new theory of musical interaction. It shows how the quintet favored divergent over convergent interactional strategies in the interpersonal, referent, role, and style domains in its quest to…[Read more]

]]> 0 d9906ac521607ed5e0cca00316d74d66 Garrett Michaelsen deposited Making “Anti-Music”: Divergent Interactional Strategies in the Miles Davis Quintet’s The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1670559/ Wed, 20 Nov 2019 15:51:47 -0500 This article examines three improvisations by the Miles Davis Quintet from their recording The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965 through the lens of a new theory of musical interaction. It shows how the quintet favored divergent over convergent interactional strategies in the interpersonal, referent, role, and style domains in its quest to…[Read more]

]]> 0 47d014581e1d83908de386428484d010 Garrett Michaelsen started the topic SMT 2019 Meeting in the discussion Society for Music Theory – Jazz Interest Group https://hcommons.org/groups/society-for-music-theory-jazz-interest-group/forum/topic/smt-2019-meeting/ Wed, 09 Oct 2019 15:56:52 -0400 Dear jazz interest group,

I’d like to officially announce the main topic of our meeting in Columbus this year and ask if you have any questions that we might consider as we plan. As I mentioned in an email to the old listserv earlier in the year, Dan Shanahan has graciously agreed to give us a workshop on corpus and computational methods of jazz…[Read more]

]]> 0 050eb17cd27931fe98de3c47a66e1565 Garrett Michaelsen started the topic Milton Stewart in the discussion Society for Music Theory – Jazz Interest Group https://hcommons.org/groups/society-for-music-theory-jazz-interest-group/forum/topic/milton-stewart/ Wed, 15 May 2019 14:45:30 -0400 Dear collected wisdom of SMT Jazz,

Does anyone have any details on the life and work of Milton Lee Stewart? His 1973 dissertation “Structural Development in the Jazz Improvisational Technique of Clifford Brown” from University of Michigan might be the first detailed application of Schenkerian analysis to jazz improvisation (besides Forte’s 1958…[Read more]

]]> 0 2a054f52ca410cfa2bf94517798b1495 Garrett Michaelsen deposited Chord-Scale Networks in the Music and Improvisations of Wayne Shorter in the group Society for Music Theory – Jazz Interest Group https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1630212/ Thu, 24 Jan 2019 16:27:34 -0500 In this article, I examine the nonfunctional harmony of three tunes from the mid-1960s by Wayne Shorter from the perspective of transformational theory. While some transformational approaches to jazz have taken the seventh or ninth chord as the basic unit, I use the more inclusive and abstract concept of a “chord scale” to encompass more of the…[Read more]

]]> 0 c010d8465f0c04c8e78b373c786ec457 Garrett Michaelsen deposited Rhythm Changes, Improvisation, and Chromaticism: Who Could Ask for Anything More? in the group Society for Music Theory – Jazz Interest Group https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1630211/ Thu, 24 Jan 2019 16:27:32 -0500 This article discuss the ways rhythm changes can be used in music theory instruction.

]]> 0 2a81d5eccbc7b6e8d2e0c00806790a16 Garrett Michaelsen deposited Groove Topics in Improvised Jazz in the group Society for Music Theory – Jazz Interest Group https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1630210/ Thu, 24 Jan 2019 16:27:30 -0500 This chapter proposes an application of topic theory to jazz improvisation. It introduces the concept of a “groove topic” and defines the expressive correlations of a variety of common jazz grooves. The chapter then traces the unfolding groove topics in Miles Davis’s celebrated 1964 solo on “My Funny Valentine.”

]]> 0 be890203aa1ee96e86dfea8c66fdb72c Garrett Michaelsen deposited Chord-Scale Networks in the Music and Improvisations of Wayne Shorter https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1629154/ Wed, 16 Jan 2019 15:43:29 -0500 In this article, I examine the nonfunctional harmony of three tunes from the mid-1960s by Wayne Shorter from the perspective of transformational theory. While some transformational approaches to jazz have taken the seventh or ninth chord as the basic unit, I use the more inclusive and abstract concept of a “chord scale” to encompass more of the…[Read more]

]]> 0 70013fc24d3627cd735bf90c06c0f9c0 Garrett Michaelsen deposited Rhythm Changes, Improvisation, and Chromaticism: Who Could Ask for Anything More? https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1629153/ Wed, 16 Jan 2019 15:37:15 -0500 This article discuss the ways rhythm changes can be used in music theory instruction.

]]> 0 97d38f86853a2818d3a7a9a35244b3f7 Garrett Michaelsen deposited Improvising to Learn/Learning to Improvise: Designing Scaffolded Group Improvisations for the Music Theory Classroom https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1629152/ Wed, 16 Jan 2019 15:33:01 -0500 This article discusses ways to create group improvisation activities in music theory curricula.

]]> 0 a204d997364f9bea024385c5f32426c2 Garrett Michaelsen deposited Groove Topics in Improvised Jazz https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1629148/ Wed, 16 Jan 2019 15:21:12 -0500 This chapter proposes an application of topic theory to jazz improvisation. It introduces the concept of a “groove topic” and defines the expressive correlations of a variety of common jazz grooves. The chapter then traces the unfolding groove topics in Miles Davis’s celebrated 1964 solo on “My Funny Valentine.”

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