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3.00 Credits
A performing jazz combo focusing on classic and modern jazz standard compositions. Two rehearsal hours weekly. Prerequisite: Grade of C or above in MUS 099 or on Music Theory Placement Test. Audition and permission of instructor required. 1 credit (Fall, Spring)
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3.00 Credits
A rehearsal lab designed to develop practical jazz playing and music reading skills. Topics include jazz rhythm, scales, chords, vamps, and modal, I-VI-II-V, blues, and other standard jazz harmonic progressions. Two laboratory hours weekly. Prerequisite: Grade of C or above in MUS 099 or on Music Theory Placement Test. Permission of instructor required. 1 credit (Fall, Spring)
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the basic principles of jazz theory. Topics include basic jazz rhythmic concepts and notation, basic scales and chords, chord symbol notation, voice leading and chord voicing principles, and modal, blues, and II-V-I progressions. Prerequisite: Grade of C or above in MUS 102. 2 credits (Fall)
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3.00 Credits
A continuation of the study of the principles of jazz theory. Topics include advanced scale and chord types, principles of chord substitution and reharmonization, tonicization and modulation, and other usages of chromatic harmony in jazz. Prerequisite: Grade of C or above in MUJ 201. 2 credits (Spring)
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3.00 Credits
Singing of scalar, chordal, rhythmic, and melodic material, and dictation or rhythmic, melodic and harmonic material concurrently studied in MUJ 201. Two laboratory hours weekly. Prerequisite: Grade of C or above in MUS 104. 1 credit (Fall)
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3.00 Credits
Singing of scalar, chordal, rhythmic, and melodic material, and dictation or rhythmic, melodic and harmonic material concurrently studied in MUJ 202. Two laboratory hours weekly. Prerequisite: Grade of C or above in MUJ 203. 1 credit (Spring)
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3.00 Credits
A historical and stylistic survey of the jazz tradition from its African and European roots to the 1940s. Writing intensive course. Prerequisite: Grade of C- or above in MUS 099 or on Music Theory Placement Test, ENG 101 or its equivalent. 3 credits (Fall)
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3.00 Credits
A historical and stylistic survey of the jazz tradition from the 1940s to the present. Writing intensive course. Prerequisite: Grade of Bor above in MUS 099 or on Music Theory Placement Test, ENG 101 or its equivalent. 3 credits (Spring)
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2.00 Credits
Applied Jazz Music Major I-II Instruction in piano, voice, jazz guitar, and all jazz band instruments. 2/2 credits (Fall/Spring)
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3.00 Credits
Applied jazz keyboard course designed to develop the skills for the use of the keyboard as a practical tool for ear training, improvising, arranging, and composing. Material covered includes basic scales, chords and keyboard voicings, and short vamp, modal I-VI-II-V, and basic blues progressions. Required as a second instrument for students not majoring in jazz piano. Prerequisites: Grade of C or above in MUS 132. 1 credit (Fall)
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