| Instructor:
Mr. White
Text: Method book, individual music handouts
Grade Level: 10-12 (in special cases, 9th
grade)
Course Credit: 1/2 credit per semester
Prerequisite: Concert or Symphonic Band
and/or Orchestra; by AUDITION ONLY
Course Outline:
This course provides students with opportunities to develop
a high level of skill in the performance of popular music,
including such styles as jazz, blues, jazz-rock, soul, Latin,
and others. Students will extend their technical range and
will develop specialized skills of jazz phrasing, interpretation,
and improvisation necessary to perform the literature for
this ensemble. In addition to frequent public performances,
students will continue in-depth study of jazz harmony and
theory, along with the study of the social, historical,
and intellectual influences on jazz as it developed into
a contemporary American art form. Membership in the Jazz
Ensemble class is determined by audition and may be limited
by instrumental needs. Members of the Jazz Ensemble will
generally be some of the most proficient performers in their
school and should demonstrate a willingness to also participate
in other instrumental ensembles within the school. This
course may be repeated for credit. The Jazz Ensemble represents
the school in public performances.
Course Outcomes:
The student will be able to:
1. follow classroom rehearsal procedures;
2. meet individual responsibilities for care and preventive
maintenance of a musical instrument;
3. follow concert performance procedures;
4. meet performance obligations as indicated on the
school's comprehensive instrumental calendar;
5. care for a concert uniform where applicable;
6. demonstrate basic competencies of instrumental
performance in the areas of tone production, intonation,
articulation/bowing, range, and memorized scales (refer
to specific performance criteria outlined in the handbook);
7. identify and summarize the social, intellectual,
historical, and cultural elements that influenced the development
and changes in jazz from the Big Band Era to the present;
8. categorize a wide variety of jazz and popular musical
styles and associate the contributions of significant composers
and performers to the evolution of these styles;
9. recognize and apply special music symbols and select
vocabulary unique to the jazz idiom;
10. interpret jazz notation and symbols in the correct
idiomatic style;
11. perform and discuss the elements of jazz style
that are implied, but not notated, in the music;
12. create improvised solos utilizing special scales,
chordal analysis, and appropriate jazz inflections;
13. identify aurally and classify recorded musical
excerpts by jazz styles and periods;
14. apply aesthetic evaluative criteria to live and
recorded instrumental performances.
Grading policy, calendar of events, procedures, etc.
are provided on separate pages in the Instrumental
Music Handbook.
Jazz Ensemble
CD Order Form
Photographs
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