| CODE | MSP2288 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Jazz Technique and Composition 2 | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Music Studies | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit provides second-year students with more advanced knowledge of jazz technique and composition. Students will be given further instruction in how to develop the theorhetical foundations of jazz music into effective and compelling compositions and extended performances. Study-Unit Aims: This study-unit provides students with a more advanced understanding of the expectations of jazz practice and gives them hands-on experience in composing and arranging jazz music for a variety of ensemble configurations. It further provides students with the ability to work together with jazz performers in a range of notated, semi-improvised, and fully improvised performance situations. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: a) express a range of effective applications of jazz theory in performance and composition; b) recognise and reproduce structures and patterns in a variety of jazz idioms; c) perform jazz music in solo and ensemble configurations. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: a) contrast effectively different techniques for the creation of jazz music; b) explore harmonic and rhythmic organisation in jazz performance. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Texts: Lewis, George E., and Benjamin Piekut. 2016. The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies, Volume 2. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Supplementary Readings: Baraka, Amiri. 2010. Black Music. New York: Akashic Books. Mulholland, Joe, and Tom Hojnacki. 2013. The Berklee Book of Jazz Harmony. Boston: Berklee Press. |
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| ADDITIONAL NOTES | Pre-requisite Study-units: MSP1380 | ||||||||||||
| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture and Independent Study | ||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Dominic Galea |
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