Phrase Rhythm in Standard Jazz Repertoire: A Taxonomy and Corpus Study

Abstract

Keith Salley and Dan Shanahan’s “Phrase Rhythm in Standard Jazz Repertoire: A Taxonomy and Corpus Study” reflects a number of Steven Strunk's scholarly interests. The authors encourage readers to consider how the layered analyses at the end of Strunk’s seminal “Harmony of Early Bop” article ( JJS 6.1) agree, depart from, or inform the processes discussed in their contribution. Furthermore, Salley and Shanahan’s broad stylistic survey of standard jazz tunes resonates notably with Strunk’s work—particularly his “Linear Intervallic Patterns in Jazz Repertory” ( ARJS 8) and his entry on “Harmony” in the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz .