SylabUZ
Course name | Improvisation |
Course ID | 03.2-WA-P-Imp-S22 |
Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
Field of study | WA - oferta ERASMUS / Humanities and Arts, Music |
Education profile | - |
Level of studies | Second-cycle Erasmus programme |
Beginning semester | winter term 2022/2023 |
Semester | 1 |
ECTS credits to win | 4 |
Course type | optional |
Teaching language | english |
Author of syllabus |
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The class form | Hours per semester (full-time) | Hours per week (full-time) | Hours per semester (part-time) | Hours per week (part-time) | Form of assignment |
Class | 15 | 1 | - | - | Credit with grade |
Becoming familiar with the problem of improvisation in jazz and popular music and presentation of techniques to expand the skills and the consciousness of students which are necessary to perform jazz music, in particular:
[1] Learning the basis abilities connected with jazz improvisation.
[2] Becoming familiar with the harmonic structure of jazz standards.
[3] Development (learning and practical use through playing the instrument in a group) of improvisation elements concerning the following aspects: melody, harmony and rhythm under consideration of the musical language of jazz.
Receiving all the required credits for the first year of studies.
Problems discussed in class:
- playing solo
- playing solo with the rhythm section
- cooperation within the rhythm section
- shaping the sound of an instrumental ensemble
- the use of appropriate improvisation techniques for the particular jazz style 11.- melody, rhythm, phrasing and harmony in jazz
The discussed problems are being practiced within an instrumental group.
Class subjects:
1. Swing and characteristic elements of rhythm, sound and melody
2. Riff and its meaning for creating a phrase and a form
3. The meaning of the rhythm section in a jazz ensemble
4. The cooperation of a soloist and the rhythm section in a jazz ensemble
5. Polyrhythm and its use during improvisation
6. Polymeter during the improvisation in an ensemble
7. Playing “in time” and “out of time” during a solo improvisation
8. Adjusting registers of the accompanying and the solo instruments during the improvisation in an
ensemble
9. The technique of phrasing “between the bars”
10. „Passing notes” and their use in scales
11. Substitute chords: minor third and tritone substitutions
12. Evolution of the blues harmony
13. Expression in the improvisation
14. Modal improvisation
15. Melody of the Bebop
Practical exercises in a group of instrumentalists
Outcome description | Outcome symbols | Methods of verification | The class form |
Grade on a basis of a presentation of recorded improvisation of every student.
J. la Porta: Jazz Articulation M. Levine: The Jazz Theory A. Laverne: Tones of runes P. Deneff: Jazz Hanon
W. Weiskopf & R. Ricker: Augmented scales in jazz R. Ricker: Patterns of four
The New Real Book vol. 1, 2, 3
Modified by mgr Wojciech Pruszyński (last modification: 20-04-2022 14:06)