Keith Waters List of Publications

Publications (peer-reviewed)
Books
• Postbop Jazz in the 1960s: The Compositions of Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, and Chick Corea
(Oxford University Press, 2019).
• The Studio Recordings of the Miles Davis Quintet (Oxford University Press, 2011).
• Jazz: The First Hundred Years, co-authored with Henry Martin (Belmont, California: Schirmer
Publications, 2001; Second edition 2006, 3rd edition 2010).
• Essential Jazz: The First Hundred Years, co-authored with Henry Martin (Belmont, California: Schirmer
Publications, 2005; Second edition 2008, Third Edition, 2012).
• Rhythmic and Contrapuntal Structures in the Music of Arthur Honegger (London: Ashgate Press,
2002).
Articles and Essays

• Review of Pat Metheny: The ECM Years, 1975-1984, by Mervyn Cooke, in Music and Letters 99/2 (May
2018): 315-317.
• Translation of Ekkehard Jost, “New Awakenings Everywhere: Free Jazz Pathways through Western
Europe” (Chapter 15 of Jost’s Jazzgeschichten aus Europa), Jazz Perspectives 10/2-3 (2018): 159-184
(11,000+ words).
• “Chick Corea and Postbop Harmony,” Music Theory Spectrum 38/1 (Spring 2016): 37-57.
• “Circular Thinking: A Roundtable on ‘Blue in Green’ and ‘Nefertiti,’” Journal of Jazz Studies 11/1
(2016): 105-120. (Lead author on co-authored paper).
• Entries for Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism (“Miles Davis,” “Arthur Honegger,” Routledge Press,
2016).
• Entries for 2nd edition of Grove Dictionary of American Music (“Modal Jazz,” “Postbop,” “McCoy
Tyner,” “Cedar Walton,” “Larry Young,” Oxford University Press, 2013).
• “Other Good Bridges: Continuity and Debussy’s ‘Reflets dans l’eau,” Music Theory Online 18/3 (2012).
• “Giant Steps and the ic4 Legacy,” Intégral 24 (2010): 135-162.
• “Modeling Diatonic, Acoustic, Hexatonic, and Octatonic Harmonies and Harmonic Progressions in 2-
and 3-Dimensional Pitch Spaces; or Jazz Harmony after 1960,” Music Theory Online 16/3 (2010), with
interactive online examples by Kent Williams.
• “Modes, Scales, Functional Harmony, and Nonfunctional Harmony in the Compositions of Herbie
Hancock,” Journal of Music Theory 49/2 (Fall 2005): 333-357.
• “Architectural and Pitch Organization in Arthur Honegger’s Works for String Quartet”. Essay contained
in Das Streichquartett in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts, ed. Beat Föllmi and Michael
Baumgartener (Tutzing, Switzerland: Verlegt bei Hans Schneider, 2004), 259-278. (Proceedings of the
Third Annual Othmar Schoeck Symposium: The String Quartet in the First Half of the Twentieth Century,
October 2001.)
• “Motivic and Formal Improvisation in the Miles Davis Quintet 1964-68,” Tijdschrift voor Muziektheorie
8/1 (February 2003): 25- 39.
• "Outside Forces: Autumn Leaves in the 1960s," Current Musicology 71-73 (Spring 2001-Spring 2002):
276-302. Commissioned for Mark Tucker Festschrift issue.
• “Bibliography of Scholarly Jazz Articles in Non-Jazz Journals,” co-authored with Jason Titus, Annual
Review of Jazz Studies 12 (2002): 235-238.
• “Out Front: The Art of Booker Little,” co-authored with former University of Colorado Masters student
David Diamond, Annual Review of Jazz Studies 11 (2000-2001): 1-38.
• “Bibliography of Scholarly Jazz Articles in Non-Jazz Journals,” co-authored with Jason Titus, Annual
Review of Jazz Studies 11 (2000-2001): 283-286.
• “What is Modal Jazz?,” Jazz Educator’s Journal 33/1 (July 2000): 53-55.
• "Introducing Pitch-class Sets in the Music of Coltrane and Harbison," Gamut 9 (1999): 83-90.
• “Blurring the Barline: Metric Displacement in the Piano Solos of Herbie Hancock," Annual Review of
Jazz Studies 8, Special Edition on Jazz Theory (1996): 19-38.
Non-peer Reviewed Essays

• “Foreword,” Engaging Students: Essays in Music Pedagogy 4 (2016), Online Journal.
• “Arthur Honegger,” chapter in Les Six Companion, ed. Robert Shapiro (London: Peter Owen Press, 2011),
159-86.
• "Playing Inside and Outside the Meter: Metric Ambiguity and Dispacement," Jazz Player 3/6
(October/November 1996): 47-48.
• "Bibliography of American Scholarly Sources on Arthur Honegger," Bulletin of Association Arthur
Honegger 3 (1996): 32-34.
• "Rhythm and Meter in an Early Composition of Arthur Honegger," Mitteilungen der Paul Sacher
Stiftung 8 (March 1995): 22-24.
• "Arthur Honegger et contrepoint," Bulletin of the Association Arthur Honegger 2 (1995): 4-6.
Paper/Lecture Presentations
Invited Lectures
• New England Conservatory of Music. April 2016. Colloquium on Miles Davis and His Circle (with
former Miles Davis bassist Dave Holland and musicologist Ingrid Monson).
• Graz University of Music and Performing Arts (Austria). March 2015. “Utopian Visions in Popular
Music.”
• Leuven Belgium, European Music Analysis Conference. September 2014. “Postbop Grammars.” (Invited
International Panel on Jazz Harmony, convened by Barbara Bleij, Amsterdam Conservatory).
• Washington University (St. Louis). September 2013. Lecture Series. “Jazz’s Second Practice and the
Postbop Compositions of Hancock, Shorter, and Corea.”
• University of British Columbia. May 2012. Analytical Approaches to World Music Conference. “Form
and the Miles Davis Quintet of the mid-1960s.”
• University of Oregon. March 2012. West Coast Conference of Music Theory and Analysis. “Other Good
Bridges: Continuity and Debussy’s ‘Reflets dans l’eau.”
• Seton Hall. March 2012. Distinguished Lecture Series. Lecture and Jazz Quartet Performance (with
former Miles Davis saxophonist Dave Liebman).
• University of North Carolina-Greensboro. June 2008. Lecture for UNC-Greensboro’s Biannual FOCUS
on Piano Literature Series (Paris in the 1920s): “Paris in the 1920s and the Art of the Everyday: Jazz,
Neoclassicism, and Postwar Modernism.”
• University of Oregon. May 2007. Theory/Musicology Symposium Lecture/performance; Part of
weeklong residency: “Chick Corea’s Trio for Flute, Bassoon, and Piano.”
• New England Conservatory of Music. November 2005. Lecture/performance: “Conversations with Monk
and Evans.”
• University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. February 2005. “Controlled Freedom, or the Madness of the
Miles Davis Quintet 1963-68.”
• University of Oregon. May 2004. Theory/Musicology Symposium Lecture; Part of weeklong residency.
“Bill Evans and Beat Sets.”
• West Coast Conference of Music Theory and Analysis, University of California Santa Barbara. April
2004. “Conversations with Monk and Evans.” Invited Guest Lecture/Performance with Steve Larson.
• Sorbonne (Paris, France). March 2002. “Improvisational and Compositional Strategies in the Music of
Herbie Hancock.”
• Amsterdam Conservatory (Netherlands). March 2002. “Improvisational and Compositional Strategies in
the Music of Herbie Hancock.”
• Institute of Jazz Studies (Rutgers University). September 2000. “Out Front: The Art of Booker Little,”
presented with David Diamond.
• University of Oregon, April 2000. “Scales, Modes, Functional Harmony, and Non-functional Harmony
in the Compositions of Herbie Hancock,” West Coast Conference of Music Theory and Analysis.
• University of New Mexico, April 1998. "Outside Forces: Autumn Leaves in the 1960s," Donald Robb
Composer's Symposium.
• Paul Sacher Foundation, Basel Switzerland, August 1994. "Rhythm and Meter in the Instrumental
Compositions of Arthur Honegger."
National and International Conferences

• “Hierarchy and Heterarchy in Two Compositions by Wayne Shorter,” National Conference of the Society
for Music Theory, November 2017 (co-presented with Henry Martin).
• “Chick Corea, Postbop Harmony, and Jazz’s Second Practice,” National Conference of the Society for
Music Theory, Charlotte, NC, November 2013.
• “Circular Thinking: A Roundtable on ‘Blue in Green’ and ‘Nefertiti,’” National Conference of the Society
for Music Theory, Montreal, October 2009 (co-authored presentation).
• “Chick Corea’s Trio for Flute, Bassoon, and Piano” (Lecture/Performance), College Music Society
International Conference, Kasetsat University, Bangkok Thailand, July 2007.
• “Formal Processes in the Miles Davis Quintet,” National Conference of the Society for Music Theory,
Los Angeles, November 2006.
• “Meter, Form, and Time in the Miles Davis Quintet,” College Music Society National Conference, San
Antonio, September 2006.
• “Riffing on [0148]: Maj7#5, The Tonnetz, and Hexatonic and Acoustic Systems,” National Conference
of the Society for Music Theory, Seattle, November 2004.
• “Honegger and Les Six,” Music in France 1830-1940 Conference, University of Melbourne, Australia,
July 2004.
• “Architectural and Pitch Organization in Arthur Honegger’s Works for String Quartet,” Third Annual
Othmar Schoeck Symposium: The String Quartet in the First Half of the Twentieth Century,
Musikhochschule Winterthur-Zürich, Switzerland, October 2001.
• “Modal Jazz: Problems and Inconsistencies,” College Music Society International Conference, University
of Limerick, Ireland, July 2001.
• “Scales, Modes, Functional Harmony, and Non-functional Harmony in the Compositions of Herbie
Hancock,” Music Analysis Conference, Oxford University, United Kingdom, September 2000.
• “Scales, Modes, Functional Harmony, and Non-functional Harmony in the Compositions of Herbie
Hancock,” National Conference of the Society for Music Theory, Toronto, Canada, November 2000.
• “Metrical Conflict in Jazz Improvisation," European Music Analysis Conference, Rotterdam
Conservatory, The Netherlands, October 1999.
• "Outside Forces: ‘Autumn Leaves’ in the 1960s," National Conference of the Society for Music Theory,
Chapel Hill, NC, November 1998.
• “Introducing Pitch-Class Sets in Coltrane and Harbison,” National Conference of the Society for Music
Theory, Phoenix, AZ, November 1997.
• "The Vocal Music of Arthur Honegger," Symposium on Art Song in the Twentieth Century, Duke
University, March 1996
• "Blurring the Barline: Metric Displacement in the Piano Solos of Herbie Hancock," National Conference
of the Society for Music Theory, New York 1995.

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