Spring 2024 Music UN2582 section 001

JAZZ IMPROVISTN:THRY,HIST,PRAC

JAZZ IMPROVISTN:THRY,HIST

Call Number 12648
Day & Time
Location
MW 4:10pm-5:25pm
112 Dodge Hall
Points 3
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Ole Mathisen
Type LECTURE
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description This course offers an introduction to jazz improvisation for instrumentalists. Through recordings, transcriptions, daily performance and selected readings, students will actively engage the history of jazz through their instruments and intellect. The idea of improvisation will be explored in an historical context, both as a musical phenomenon with its attendant theory and mechanics, and as a trope of American history and aesthetics. This class is for instrumentalists who wish to deepen their understanding of the theory, history and practice of jazz improvisation. The history of jazz will be used as a prism through which to view approaches to improvisation, from the cadences of the early Blues through the abstractions of Free Jazz and beyond. The student will be exposed to the theory and vocabularies of various jazz idioms, which they will also learn to place in their social and historical contexts.
Web Site Vergil
Department Music
Enrollment 10 students (20 max) as of 9:05PM Friday, December 13, 2024
Subject Music
Number UN2582
Section 001
Division Interschool
Section key 20241MUSI2582V001