MUSI3181

Jazz Performance

Faculty of Education and Arts School of Creative Arts

10 Units 3000 Level Course

Not available in 2012

Previously offered in 2013, 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

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)

Transition

Industrial Experience

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

Assessment Items

Presentations - Individual

Assessment No.1
35% of the total assessment
The assessment will include a performance in an ensemble as well as an analysis test.

Approximately mid semester of the course.