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The composer also brings out the improvisatory character prevalent in traditional Korean music by removing bar lines and metrical rhythmic structure. As Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane chose to "ignore bar lines, chord-based improvisation and even tonality in their explorations" (Suhor 136), so Parks constantly violates syntactic rules, her dialogue becoming the spoken equivalent of "suprasegmentals"--the variations in pitch, stress, and dynamics (Suhor 138). In some instances, only a simple adjustment of bar lines may be necessary ("Johnny Sands") and, as necessary, substitution of dotted or triplet rhythms for the steady eighth notes of the transcriptions ("Shoo Fly," "Martha Decker"). |
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