SylabUZ
| Course name | Jazz harmony |
| Course ID | 03.2-WA-D-HARJazz-S18 |
| 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 2018/2019 |
| Semester | 1 |
| ECTS credits to win | 3 |
| Course type | obligatory |
| Teaching language | polish |
| 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 |
[1] becoming familiar with the sound of jazz;
[2] learning the music resources of jazz (scales, chords, melody);
[3] acquiring the skills to analyse harmonic problems and phenomena on the example of jazz evolution (styles, concepts, compositions, musicians);
[4] practical preparation for playing the examples of the learned principles on a piano.
A pass in the entrance examinations for the graduate Music Education Studies, optional subjects module: Jazz.
[1] chord symbols (American jazz standards);
[2] church modes (the major scale and its modes, the melodic minor scale and its modes); [3] the diminished, the altered and the whole tone scale;
[4] the construction of chord, texture types;
[5] cadences;
[6] substitute chords;
[7] the form of blues;
[8] rhythm changes;
[9] the analysis of solos;
[10] the analysis of composition;
[11] deceptive cadences;
[12] the harmony of J. Coltrane ("Giant Steps"), mediants;
[13] pentatonic scales and modes, the blues scale;
[14] upper structures, altered chords;
[15] melody;
[16] the use of chromatic;
[17] modal scales;
[18] melody with thirds (B. Evans);
[19] structural melody;
[20] slash chords (polychords);
[21] elements of free jazz.
Lecture and practical exercises in form of analysis of examples from music works, written exercises.
| Outcome description | Outcome symbols | Methods of verification | The class form |
Semester I:
Pass/fail for a semester test.
Semester II:
Grade for a semester test and oral answer covering the whole staff done in both semesters.
Andy Jaffe: JAZZ HARMONY, Advance Music 1996 W. Weiskopf & R. Ricker: Augmented scales in jazz R. Ricker: Patterns of Four
Slonimsky: Thesaurus of scale on melody patterns R. Miller: Modal Harmony
P. Deneff: Jazz Hanon
J. Aebersold: nagrane akompaniamenty do ćwiczeń i utworów
M. Levine: The Jazz Theory
B. Dobbins: Contemporary Pianist
Modified by mgr Żaneta Kicińska (last modification: 07-05-2018 12:04)
