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Description
Jazz Analysis and Stylistic Application (Jazz "Styles")
This two-year class is designed for advanced and intermediate jazz students. It is required for Level III and IV of the Jazz Certificate Program and requires some prior knowledge of jazz theory. In this class, compositions will be analyzed from both the "big picture" (form, harmony, arrangement, melody, and rhythm) and the "little picture" (articulation and methods of improvisation). Source material for the first year has included Charlie Parker, Ornette Coleman, Thelonious Monk, Mike Stern, Cecil Taylor, Duke Ellington, Wayne Shorter, and Stevie Wonder. Source material for the odd numbered Fall school years includes modal music from Japan, North and South India, America (Blues), John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Paul Bley,
James Brown, Funkadelic, Bob Marley, Frank Zappa and the Roots. Students make an in-class analytical presentation at the beginning and end of each school year.
If you have questions about this class please call the NEC Prep School office at (617) 585-1160. Thank you and we look forward to seeing you in class.
Course Sub-Category
Jazz
Instructor
David Zoffer
James Stewardson
Sessions
0
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