1. SylabUZ
2. Wydział Artystyczny
3. semestr zimowy 2024/2025
4. WA - oferta ERASMUS / sztuki muzyczne - Program Erasmus drugiego stopnia
5. Improvisation

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Improvisation - opis przedmiotu

Cel przedmiotu

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. 

Wymagania wstępne

Zapisz zmiany

Receiving all the required credits for the first year of studies. 

Zakres tematyczny

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 

Metody kształcenia

Practical exercises in a group of instrumentalists 

Efekty uczenia się i metody weryfikacji osiągania efektów uczenia się

Opis efektu	Symbole efektów	Metody weryfikacji	Forma zajęć

Warunki zaliczenia

Grade on a basis of a presentation of recorded improvisation of every student. 

Literatura podstawowa

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 

Literatura uzupełniająca

Uwagi

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