Available in 2013
| Newcastle City Precinct | Semester 1 |
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Previously offered in 2011, 2009
This course focuses on development of performance and analytical skills in the jazz idiom through a study of style, techniques, performance and accompaniment characteristics and improvisation techniques. Students will develop an understanding of theory and musical direction/arrangement appropriate to the style.
| Objectives | At the successful completion of this course students will be able to: 1.recognise and correctly perform different jazz music styles 2.read and interpret song scores and perform from them appropriately on their individual instrument 3.creatively interpret basic arrangements of standard pieces 4.improvise over chord changes, correctly applying basic scales and modes 5.demonstrate control over tone and sound production 6.analyse jazz songs from scores and recordings |
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| Content | The course covers performance, improvisation, and accompaniment techniques studied through an exploration of various idioms from jazz. The harmonic language associated with jazz styles will be a major focus of this course. The skill in using this harmonic language will be developed through reading from chord charts and a further extension of improvisation where little or no assistance is given to the notated chordal structure of the melody. | ||||
| Replacing Course(s) | NA | ||||
| Transition | NA | ||||
| Industrial Experience | 0 | ||||
| Assumed Knowledge | Students undertaking this course should have solid skills in the instrument for which this course is offered that semester. | ||||
| Modes of Delivery | Internal Mode | ||||
| Teaching Methods | Lecture
Tutorial |
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| Contact Hours | Lecture: for 1 hour(s) per Week for Full Term Tutorial: for 1 hour(s) per Week for Full Term |
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| Timetables | 2013 Course Timetables for MUSI3181 |