Jazz Aural Skills

1 credits · Undergraduate

Develop the aural skills essential to jazz performance, improvisation, composition, and analysis. Students will train to recognize and reproduce intervals, chord qualities, harmonic progressions, and melodic patterns by ear. Through transcription, singing, dictation, call-and-response, and improvisation, students will bridge theoretical knowledge with practical exercises. Counts as a Semester 4 Special Topics seminar in the Aural Skills core. [1]