JAZZ 121 - Jazz Theory

Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 3 hHurs
Designed to acquaint students with rhythmic, melodic, harmonic, and structural aspects of improvised music, including chord/scale relationships, common chord progressions, chord voicing and harmonization, chord substitution and reharmonizations, melodic transformation, and modal mixture and chromaticism. Emphasis will be placed on the development of analytical and writing skills within the context of such forms as the blues and song forms. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 25.
Instructor: R. Ferrazza