ADVANCED JAZZ

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: MUS PERF 441 and concurrent enrollment in MUSIC 262 Course Designation: Level - Advanced L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: Yes, unlimited number of completions Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate high technical proficiency of instrument or voice performance. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Show comprehensive competency and fluency in core improvisation, accompaniment, solo, and ensemble performance techniques common to the jazz genre. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Develop and express a personal artistic voice through critical engagement with the jazz idiom. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Interpret and improvise jazz in a performance practice appropriate to the idiom. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Customize a personal repertoire based on a knowledge of composition and arranging techniques and familiarity with the standard jazz repertoire. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Synthesize musical abilities with skills for leading a jazz ensemble. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 7. Contextualize the performance of jazz and related genres in a historic and cultural context. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate high technical proficiency of instrument or voice performance. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Show comprehensive competency and fluency in core improvisation, accompaniment, solo, and ensemble performance techniques common to the jazz genre. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Develop and express a personal artistic voice through critical engagement with the jazz idiom. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Interpret and improvise jazz in a performance practice appropriate to the idiom. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Customize a personal repertoire based on a knowledge of composition and arranging techniques and familiarity with the standard jazz repertoire. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Synthesize musical abilities with skills for leading a jazz ensemble. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 7. Contextualize the performance of jazz and related genres in a historic and cultural context. Audience: Graduate