Curricula
Description
| MM00EC04 | Historical and Structural Awareness of Music: Jazz (3 cr) |
| Prerequisites | Not applicable |
| Objectives | After completing the course, I understand the characteristics of different jazz styles, as well as the social conditions and musical influences that influenced their creation. I can hear the most important jazz styles, as well as the most important composers, performers and songs. I have deepened my understanding of the tools needed for improvisation, as well as extended harmony. I have come to understand and appreciate the importance of jazz music as the key to studying various rhythm music and general musical phenomena to a broader understanding. Course goals regarding Ear Training: I can perceive melody, harmony, rhythm, form and timbre in music throughout various musical styles. I can notate rhythmic, melodic and harmonic content and to reproduce rhythms and melody, while maintaining a pulse, through my voice and body. I can also add note names to a given melody in different keys. I perceive harmony and melody with the names of the notes and chord symbols, alongside the scale degrees, and the roles of the melody notes regarding the key and the chord they’re on. I am also able to improvise with my own voice inside the harmonic situations I am hearing. |
| Content | The teaching consists of audio-visual lectures on the history of music, which help the student to internalize and auditorily identify the musical, social and historical conditions and phenomena that influenced the emergence of different styles of jazz music. The theory section discusses scales and modes essential for improvisation (melodic minor modes, symmetrical scales, bebop scales), chord/scale connection through the writing and analysis of an improvised bebop line, and extension of chords that link to studies in the history of jazz music. The course also includes listening tasks (e.g. singing and writing a melody, reading rhythms and dictates, and recognizing chords). Ear Training topics: Expanding on the topics of the previous courses. Different types of ii-V-movements, tonicisations leading outside the key. Melodic minor modes. Jazz- based chromaticism in melody. Notation of melodic ornamentation of the blues. Common features of jazz harmony behavior. Exercises in swing time through notation and repetition, as well as advanced triplet-based rhythms. |
| Recommended optional programme components | If necessary, the student advisor will recommend optional programme components for each student based on their individual study plan. |
| Accomplishment methods | Participation in contact teaching (history lectures, theory and solfage lessons). Absences should be compensated by additional tasks. Other ways of completing the course must always be negotiated separately with the teacher. |
| Execution methods | Not applicable |
| Materials | Not applicable |
| Literature | Not applicable |
| Evaluation Criteria | Approved/Failed |
| Evaluation Criteria |
pass/fail Assessment (pass/fail) for attending classes, doing homework and possible group work. Passed: The student demonstrates that they understand the content of the course, as well as completes all the homework and possible group work provided. |
| Assessment Frameworks | Not applicable |
| Further Information | Not applicable |
| Responsible persons | Not applicable |
| Links | Not applicable |
Implementations
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- 01.01.2025 - 09.03.2025 (MM00EC04-3001 | MPE23SPPJ)
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