Harmonic and Compositional Tendencies in Contemporary Gospel Music

Authors

Clifford Bond

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Abstract

For my Culminating Experience I decided I wanted to delve deeper into the music of five Contemporary Gospel artists/composers – Kirk Franklin, Donnie McClurklin, Marvin Sapp, Fred Hammond, and Hezekiah Walker. These five artists have all had continuous success on the Gospel Billboard charts for the past 25-30 years and are all still releasing new music today; therefore, I believe they encompass the embodiment of the Contemporary Gospel sound.

Publication Date

7-1-2017

Campus

Valencia (Spain) Campus

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Project Components: paper (.pdf), presentation (.pdf), audio files (ZIP file contianing 5 .wav files), videos (ZIP file containing 2 .mp4 files).

Recommended Citation

Bond, Clifford. “Harmonic and Compositional Tendencies in Contemporary Gospel Music.” Master's thesis, Berklee College of Music, 2017. https://remix.berklee.edu/graduate-studies-contemporary-performance/71.