JS 581T Jazz Styles: Free Jazz & the Avant-Garde

Students will increase their knowledge of musical choices, issues, and possibilities through study of the work of improvisers and composers working in "free jazz" and the jazz avant-garde styles of 1958 to the present through listening, transcription, analysis, and composition. They will improve the ear and develop skills in transcription and analysis with the goal of gaining a greater command of musical materials for use in their own music. They will question and debate received ideas about jazz history, including stylistic boundaries, categories, distinctions, definitions, notions of artistic progress and evolution, and ideas founded on cultural biases.

Credits

2

Prerequisite

(JS 378/Lecture or JS 378/Department or JS 500/Studio or CI 500/Studio or Instructor Permission)