William Lake, Advisor Chick Corea has been and remains one of the most influential jazz pianists of the last 50 years.Throughout his career, he has had a distinct voice in the jazz community and is recognized for his incorporation of many different types of keyboard instruments into his compositions.Beyond timbral innovations, he has composed hundreds of pieces that represent a variety of styles, notably hard bop, post-bop, fusion, and classical.He also took part in the avant-garde jazz movement, through extensive, free group improvisations.Despite his large oeuvre, a surprisingly small amount of scholarly analysis and writing has been devoted to his music.A few theses and articles have examined his improvisations, but even less attention has been paid to his harmonic language.Steven Strunk has presented on Corea's compositions of the 1960s, but these represent only a small portion of his musical output, and Ramon Satyendra's article on "Starlight" focuses on a single composition.This thesis first discusses the styles in which Corea has composed and some of the musical attributes of these styles.The bulk of this paper is then devoted to the analysis of several pieces and excerpts of pieces containing specific harmonic features: functional harmony, chromatic-third relationships, harmonic planing, line-based progressions, pedal points, ostinati, and vamps.Within each chapter, general conclusions are made concerning the styles in which specific harmonic structures are evident.
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