M-JP-EBDNS

Practical Classes

4

5 to 12 students

30 - dependent on group size

minimum 60 minutes - maximum dependent on group size

32 hours

79 hours

Admitted to year 2 Jazz & Pop, or, after audition, from Composition, Film and Theatre. This subject can only be followed on-campus.

NOTE that selecting one elective band is compulsory in the second year Jazz & Pop. In years 2, 3 and 4 students Jazz & Pop can select up to two elective bands per year in total.

See Competencies Matrix.

Learning how to interpret and play the songs of the famous Herbie Hancock album ' The New Standard', acquiring skills concerning ensemble playing, group-sound and storytelling in improvisation.

This module is related to the main subject module.

This elective band will explore, transcribe, interpret, arrange, rehearse and find its sound, working on the pieces that are being played on the famous Herbie Hancock album The New Standard. This album consists of a series of arrangements of famous pop-tunes, played with acoustic instruments by an all-star group. This same concept of arranging other pop-tunes in a personal way, and playing them in an energetic way, emphasising on improvising, will be the format for this elective band.

This band is initiated by Jeroen van Vliet. Note that we can not guarantee which teacher will lead a band, it will be clear by September.

Band rehearsals and performances.

Handed out by the instructor (where applicable). Students will bring their instrument, if needed extra equipment (mic, stomp-boxes)

Generating internal publicity for the band's concerts, and selecting repertoire. Transcribing, arranging, playing.

Assessment by the band instructor at the end of each semester.

General criteria: creativity, improvisation, reading sheet music, harmonic & rhythmic awareness, timing and tempo control, musical interaction, intonation, reading skills, sound, interpretation, style awareness, form principles, tonal balance, preparation, accompaniment, active participation and attitude.

Writing the pieces described in the program; submitting these in sheet music with the different parts transposed where necessary.
Performing a circa 45-minute band concert.

The student has completed this module if being awarded a minimum grade of 5.5 at the end of the second semester.

Written assessment by the instructor at the end of both semesters. Assessment at the end of the autumn semester is formative and expressed in terms of satisfactory/unsatisfactory. It indicates a student's progress in this module. No ECs are awarded and there is no resit. Modules can only be absolved, and ECs awarded, after the end of the spring semester. The end-of-semester assessments comprise evaluations of students' performance during the rehearsals and public performances.

See the Education and Assessment Plan.