Year 1: Performance practice; improvisation techniques; contemporary musicianship; composition and arrangement; contextual understanding and listening 1; jazz and contemporary world music in context. Year 2: Performance styles; improvisation styles; keyboard harmony and theory; contemporary composition; contextual understanding and listening 2; contemporary world jazz and the individual. Year 3: Performance project; composition project; contextual investigation; plus elective credits on each of these modules.
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Кол-во лет: 0 - 4
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Кол-во лет: 3
Students are encouraged to work in their own bands in addition to the course playing; this degree aims to develop accomplished musicians with a 'rounded' background, focusing on the study of jazz performance techniques and styles; the course features a study of music idioms from around the world and incorporates cultural characteristic musical elements performed through contemporary jazz techniques; the 1st 2 stages of the course stress musicianship in terms of aural transcription, harmony and arrangement and jazz techniques both in composition and performance; there is an exploration of contemporary jazz movements on a world stage.