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  • music 32-3381: Techniques for Improvisation I

    2.00 Credits
    Columbia College-Chicago

    Course is based on the premise that improvisation and composition are one. Course covers extensive identification and performance of scales, chords, and important jazz solos. Students learn to improvise by developing compositional skills and applying techniques used in historically significant jazz solos. 2 CREDITS PREREQUISITES: 32-1631 THE JAZZ TRADITION, 32-2111 SIGHTSINGING, MUSICIANSHIP, AND EAR TRAINING II, 32-2121 THEORY, HARMONY, AND ANALYSIS II, 32-2133 KEYBOARD HARMONY I
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  • music 32-3382: Techniques for Improvisation II

    2.00 Credits
    Columbia College-Chicago

    Course examines improvisational theory, including blues form, chord substitution, and jazz applications of atonality. Master improvisations are analyzed and transcribed, and improvisation as self-composition is nurtured through the study of melodic motif and rhythmic development or recomposition. 2 CREDITS PREREQUISITES: 32-3381 TECHNIQUES FOR IMPROVISATION I
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  • music 32-3511: Techniques in Singing III

    2.00 Credits
    Columbia College-Chicago

    Course further develops skills learned in 32-2512 Techniques in Singing II. Student continues to identify vocal strengths and weaknesses, set goals, and implement effective performance techniques. 2 CREDITS PREREQUISITES: 32-2512 TECHNIQUES IN SINGING II COREQUISITES: 32-2112 SIGHTSINGING, MUSICIANSHIP, AND EAR TRAINING III, 32-2122 THEORY, HARMONY, AND ANALYSIS III
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  • music 32-3531: Vocal Improvisation I

    2.00 Credits
    Columbia College-Chicago

    This course is designed to assist the intermediate pop and jazz voice student in applying improvisational techniques. The intermediate student will learn to recognize, imitate, and apply the vocal stylizations of established popular singers. Through the process of singing transcriptions of the improvisations from the masters of popular styles, the students will garner vocal agility and confidence for singing with the instrumental ensemble in which they are concurrently enrolled. 2 CREDITS PREREQUISITES: 32-2111 SIGHTSINGING, MUSICIANSHIP, AND EAR TRAINING II, 32-2121 THEORY, HARMONY, AND ANALYSIS II, 32-2522 STYLES FOR THE CONTEMPORARY SINGER, 32-2800 VOCAL JAZZ OR 32-2520 SOLO SINGING CONCURRENT: 32-1880 THE GROOVE BAND OR 32-2880 JAZZ COMBO OR 32-2881 COLUMBIA COLLEGE JAZZ ENSEMBLES
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  • music 32-3532: Vocal Improvisation II

    2.00 Credits
    Columbia College-Chicago

    This course is designed specifically for the continuing development of the Jazz Studies Vocal Major. It is a comprehensive study of jazz vocal styles and skills based on jazz progressions and lyric phrasing. The topics will include an overview of advanced chords, progressions, and scales along with "scatting"syllables and improvisational melodic embellishments commonly used in jazz. 2 CREDITS PREREQUISITES: 32-2800 VOCAL JAZZ, 32-3531 VOCAL IMPROVISATION I COREQUISITES: 32-2880 JAZZ COMBO, 32-2881 COLUMBIA COLLEGE JAZZ ENSEMBLES
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  • music 32-3621: Popular Music:History,Ethnography,and Analysis

    3.00 Credits
    Columbia College-Chicago

    This course is an advanced course in the history, ethnography, and analysis of popular music. Students will learn several popular music traditions, inquiring into their history, musical structure, and social significance. In addition, each student will undertake a research project that involves working with a Chicago musician, tradition, or repertoire; conducting interviews; engaging in musical transcription and/or analysis; and coming to an understanding of how musical practice engages and responds to its social context. 3 CREDITS PREREQUISITES: 32-2113 SIGHTSINGING, MUSICIANSHIP, AND EAR TRAINING IV, 32-2611 MUSIC HISTORY AND ANALYSIS I, 32-3121 THEORY, HARMONY, AND ANALYSIS IV
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  • music 32-3630: Jazz Styles and Analysis

    3.00 Credits
    Columbia College-Chicago

    Course covers theoretical skill and analytical techniques related to jazz styles from traditional jazz to the present. Instruction examines each period and movement, with emphasis on major composers and artists. 3 CREDITS PREREQUISITES: 32-1631 THE JAZZ TRADITION, 32-2111 SIGHTSINGING, MUSICIANSHIP, AND EAR TRAINING II, 32-2121 THEORY, HARMONY, AND ANALYSIS II, 32-2133 KEYBOARD HARMONY I, 32-3382 TECHNIQUES FOR IMPROVISATION II
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  • music 32-3665: Advanced Seminar in Musicology

    3.00 Credits
    Columbia College-Chicago

    This is an advanced course that focuses on specific topics in musicology or ethnomusicology. Students work closely with a particular music-historical period or with a set of representative musical traditions from around the world, engaging and discussing works of music and related scholarship. Students conduct research, put together a well-researched paper, and present their work to classmates in a mini-conference at the end of the semester. 3 CREDITS PREREQUISITES: 32-2113 SIGHTSINGING, MUSICIANSHIP, AND EAR TRAINING IV, 32-2611 MUSIC HISTORY AND ANALYSIS I, 32-2612 MUSIC HISTORY AND ANALYSIS II, 32-3121 THEORY, HARMONY, AND ANALYSIS IV
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  • music 32-3791: Private Lessons:Advanced Composition

    2.00 Credits
    Columbia College-Chicago

    This is a private studio course in which students receive critiques and assistance on their composition projects. This class provides students with the guidelines and advice for students to compose a larger work. The goals of this course are to investigate and experiment with a wide range of compositional techniques and to consolidate new compositional techniques in one's personal vocabulary. 2 CREDITS PREREQUISITES: 32-2113 SIGHTSINGING, MUSICIANSHIP, AND EAR TRAINING IV, 32-2132 KEYBOARD II, 32-3121 THEORY, HARMONY, AND ANALYSIS IV, 32-3133 KEYBOARD HARMONY II, 32-3212 COMPOSITION IV CONCURRENT: 32-1000 RECITAL ATTENDANCE
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  • music 32-3797: Private Lessons:Senior Recital

    2.00 Credits
    Columbia College-Chicago

    This required course for all graduating Music students provides private instruction during the semester of the student's senior recital. Students will prepare the music for their recital under the close supervision of the instructor. The instructor will act as a performance coach, as a guide for choosing repertoire, and as a consultant on non-musical aspects of the senior recital, such as printed program preparation and staging. 2 CREDITS PREREQUISITES: PRIMARY PRIVATE LESSONS
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