Creación de dos arreglos musicales de standards de jazz aplicando los recursos orquestales del compositor Oliver Nelson.

Abstract

This research work is focused on techniques of orchestration of musician Oliver Nelson, with the aim of applying them in musical arrangements. The Starting point propose the transcription and analysis of three themes of authorship of this artist, to encapsulate his arranging style, these are: "Stolen Moments," Yearnin´" and "Cascades" from the album The Blues and the abstract truth." The process for the fulfillment of the objective proposed in this thesis is summarized in three steps. 1) Discographic research for the selection of topics to transcribe, in other words, several discs authored by Nelson were searched and listened to find one that meets the criteria of this research. 2) Transcription and musical analysis. The basis of this step in the theoretical and practical knowledge, was provided by the career of music of the Catholic University of Santiago De Guayaquil. 3) The creation of two musical arrangements implementing the studied orchestration techniques of Oliver Nelson.