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?seq=13#metadata_info_tab_contents


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-Melodic-Patterns-Nicolas-Slonimsky/dp/1258454165

Process vs. Intuition in the Recent Works of Steve Reich and John Adams by K. Robert Schwarz
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3052096?seq=16#metadata_info_tab_contents

Interview with John Adams
https://web.archive.org/web/20070205051022/http://www.topologymusic.com/articles/adams.htm

Quincy Jones Interview
http://www.vulture.com/2018/02/quincy-jones-in-conversation.html

Performances:
John Adams - Phrygian Gates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CvtZCawxw0

John Adams - Chairman Dances
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6f1p_OMBw8

John Adams - Shaker Loops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj3BrhDQyaM&t=1328s

John Adams - Harmonielehre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etxDjB5Riok

Steve Reich - Music for Mallets instruments Voices and Organ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCiGDdEdrks

Philip Glass - Music in Fifths
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhj1rwMppkY&t=461s