MU 312 - Jazz Improvisation I

(3.00 cr.)

Prerequisite: MU 201 or MU 302 or MU 310 or written permission of the instructor. Helps the student become a more musical improviser principally in the jazz idiom through a four-pronged approach which involves listening, theory, practice, and performance. Students study, play, and transcribe great jazz solos and invent new melodies. Covers the development of a basic vocabulary for improvising. Examines rhythm in jazz and improvisation in the Major, Dorian, Mixoljdian modes and the Blues scale.