JAZZ IMPROVISATION

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: MUSIC 331 Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Humanities Level - Advanced L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2025 Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify (visually and aurally) chord structures, scales and modes in the Major, Harmonic Minor, the Blues, Minor and Major Pentatonic, and Bebop scales. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Formulate and perform spontaneous melodies over song progressions and song forms. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Solve rhythmic placement of their improvisation within a steady pulse. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Apply historical and contemporary concepts of musical styles and forms, and research approaches specific to their instrument. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Apply melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic devices for improvisation over a chord and song form. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Describe and analyze improvisation by themselves, their peers, and from recordings. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 7. Synthesize knowledge with insights and creativity to demonstrate self-understanding and improved performance practice and improvisation. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify (visually and aurally) chord structures, scales and modes in the Major, Harmonic Minor, the Blues, Minor and Major Pentatonic, and Bebop scales. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Formulate and perform spontaneous melodies over song progressions and song forms. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Solve rhythmic placement of their improvisation within a steady pulse. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Apply historical and contemporary concepts of musical styles and forms, and research approaches specific to their instrument. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Apply melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic devices for improvisation over a chord and song form. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Describe and analyze improvisation by themselves, their peers, and from recordings. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 7. Synthesize knowledge with insights and creativity to demonstrate self-understanding and improved performance practice and improvisation. Audience: Graduate