third stream

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Etymology

Coined by composer Gunther Schuller in 1957.

Noun

third stream (uncountable)

  1. (music) A form of jazz created in the 1950s, performed in ensembles in a style influenced by Western classical music, such as by using musical notation and eschewing improvisation.
    • 2001, Ellen Koskoff, editor, The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: North America, Garland Publishing, page 335:
      The movement they brought into existence, "Third Stream", was for the most part an effort by jazz composers and musicians to adopt some of the conventions […]

References

  1. ^ Josiah Fisk, editor (1997), Composers On Music: Eight Centuries of Writings, →ISBN, page 437: “In 1957 he coined the term “third stream” to describe a particular music resulting from the confluence of jazz and classical.”

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