Abstract
This article explores the implications for jazz pedagogy of recent research into New Orleans counterpoint and its relationship to barbershop harmony. The dominant paradigm in jazz education has been a theoretical approach using chord scales to improvise over chord changes. This is not how early New Orleans musicians improvised. They instead used the melody as their point of reference and improvised countermelodies, and this gave rise to harmony.
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