Jazz Ensembles Intermediate through Advanced
Advanced Jazz Ensemble
Course Description: This course is an advanced-intermediate through advanced level, hands on instrumental performing ensemble. Praxis - learning music through music-making, is the principal mode of instruction. Along with classroom work, the ensemble performs publically during the school year outside of the classroom.
Course Objectives
To develop each student's musicality and musicianship as a member of an ensemble, as a soloist, and as an improviser
Course Outcomes - Students will:
Perform with expression and technical accuracy a repertoire of solo and ensemble literature representing various jazz genres, styles, and cultural and historical periods with a level of difficulty matched to the ensemble's advanced level.
Improvise: stylistically accurate harmonizing parts; rhythmic and melodic variations on given melodies in pentatonic, major, and minor tonalities; original melodies over chord progressions consistent in style, meter, and tonality
Arrange: music for various instruments demonstrating knowledge of ranges and traditional usages of sound sources
Demonstrate: an understanding of how musical elements interact to create expressiveness in music and knowledge of the technical vocabulary of music
Listen to performances of extended length and complexity with proper attention and audience protocol
Analyze: and describe uses of the elements of music in a given work that make it unique, interesting, and expressive
Demonstrate: the ability to perceive, remember, and describe in detail significant occurrences in a given aural example
Compare and contrast ways in which compositional devices and techniques are used in two or more examples of the same piece, genre, or style
Jazz Ensemble Intermediate Band Intermediate Level I
Course Description: This course is an intermediate, hands on instrumental performing ensemble class. Praxis - learning music through music-making, is the principal mode of instruction. Along with classroom work, the ensemble will perform publically during the school year outside of the classroom.
Course Objectives
To develop each student's musicality and musicianship as a member of an ensemble, as a soloist, and as an improviser
Course Outcomes - Students will:
Perform with expression and technical accuracy a repertoire of solo and ensemble literature representing various jazz genres, styles, and cultural and historical periods with a level of difficulty matched to the ensemble's intermediate level.
Improvise: stylistically accurate harmonizing parts; rhythmic and melodic variations on given melodies in pentatonic, major, and minor tonalities; original melodies over chord progressions consistent in style, meter, and tonality
Arrange: music for various instruments demonstrating knowledge of ranges and traditional usages of sound sources
Demonstrate: an understanding of how musical elements interact to create expressiveness in music and knowledge of the technical vocabulary of music
Listen to performances of extended length and complexity with proper attention and audience protocol
Analyze: and describe uses of the elements of music in a given work that make it unique, interesting, and expressive
Demonstrate: the ability to perceive, remember, and describe in detail significant occurrences in a given aural example
Compare and contrast ways in which compositional devices and techniques are used in two or more examples of the same piece, genre, or style
Rules of the Game
1. Listen
2. Cooperate
3. Give your best effort
Jazz Ensembles
Advanced Level
Intermediate Level
Course Elements:
The Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric of Music in the Jazz Style
Grammar: The role in jazz of: more advanced Keys, Scales, Time Feel, Instrumentation
Logic: The way the elements of jazz grammar are assembled into coherent musical statements in intermediate and advanced tunes, arrangements, and improvised solos.
Rhetoric: The way of creating persuasive musical statements in the jazz style using the elements of Grammar and Logic.