Courses
Academic Courses
Jazz
- MUS O311 Fundamentals of Jazz Theory (1 cr.) P: Music Fundamentals Online or T109 Rudiments of Music I with grade of C or higher. Must be music undergraduate jazz major or minor. Jazz nomenclature, chord/scale relationships, harmony, tune forms, basic keyboard application, and ear training.
- MUS O316 Jazz Arranging 1 (2 cr.) P: O321 Jazz Improvisation I. Scoring for jazz instruments in various ensembles. Study of arrangers and arrangements in various styles to assimilate their characteristics; applications of these styles to original arrangements.
- MUS O317 Jazz Arranging 2 (2 cr.) P: O316 Jazz Arranging 1. More advanced arranging for various combinations of instruments in different styles.
- MUS O318 Styles and Analysis of Jazz 1 (2 cr.) P: O321 Jazz Improvisation I. Survey and analysis of jazz styles from ragtime and early jazz to swing and bebop. Repertoire, improvisation, instrumentation, role of instruments, major innovators and important groups. Includes transcription of jazz solos and their stylistic analysis.
- MUS O319 Styles and Analysis of Jazz 2 (2 cr.) P: O318 Styles and Analysis of Jazz 1. Survey and analysis of jazz styles from the cool school and hard bop to modal and contemporary styles. Continuation of O318 areas of focus. Includes transcription of jazz solos and their analysis.
- MUS O321 Jazz Improvisation 1 (2 cr.) P: O311 Fundamentals of Jazz Theory. Introduction to jazz improvisation. Chord/scale relationships, generic melodic patterns, standard harmonic patterns, tune learning.
- MUS O322 Jazz Improvisation 2 (3 cr.) P: O321 Jazz Improvisation I. Theory and technique of Bebop. Theory and techniques of jazz improvisation with an emphasis on the vocabulary, style, and repertoire of the jazz common practice period (ca. 1940-1955).
- MUS O323 Jazz Improvisation 3 (3 cr.) P: O321 Jazz Improvisation I. Jazz rhythmic techniques: rhythmic techniques in various Latin Jazz styles and other contemporary jazz rhythmic practices such as note grouping, odd meters, and metric modulation.
- MUS O324 Jazz Improvisation 4 (3 cr.) P: O321 Jazz Improvisation I. Modern concepts since 1955. Theory and techniques of jazz improvisation with an emphasis on the vocabulary, style, and repertoire of jazz since 1958.
- MUS O450 Jazz Chamber Ensemble (1 cr.)
- MUS O511 Fundamentals of Jazz Theory (1 cr.) Jazz nomenclature, chord/scale relationships, harmony, tune forms, basic keyboard application, and ear training.
- MUS O512 Jazz Composition (3 cr.) Advanced study of problems of different styles of composition in the jazz idiom.
- MUS O516 Jazz Arranging 1 (2 cr.) Scoring for jazz instruments in various ensembles.
- MUS O517 Jazz Arranging 2 (2 cr.) Arranging for various combinations of instruments in different jazz styles.
- MUS O521 Jazz Improvisation 1 (2 cr.) P: for jazz studies majors and minors: O511 Fundamentals of Jazz Theory. Introduction to jazz improvisation. Chord/scale relationships, generic melodic patterns, standard harmonic patterns, tune learning.
- MUS O522 Jazz Improvisation 2 (3 cr.) P: O511 Fundamentals of Jazz Theory and O521 Jazz Improvisation 1 or permission of instructor. Theory and technique of Bebop. Theory and techniques of jazz improvisation with an emphasis on the vocabulary, style, and repertoire of the jazz common practice period (ca. 1940-1955).
- MUS O523 Jazz Improvisation 3 (3 cr.) P: O522 Jazz Improvisation 2 or permission of instructor. Jazz rhythmic techniques: rhythmic techniques in various Latin Jazz styles and other contemporary jazz rhythmic practices such as note grouping, odd meters, and metric modulation.
- MUS O524 Jazz Improvisation 4 (3 cr.) P: O522 Jazz Improvisation 2 or permission of instructor. Modern concepts since 1955. Theory and techniques of jazz improvisation with an emphasis on the vocabulary, style, and repertoire of jazz since 1958.
- MUS O550 Jazz Chamber Ensemble (0-1 cr.)