M-JP-EBDBM

Practical Classes

4

5 - 12 students

30 - dependent on group size

minimum 60 minutes - maximum is dependent on group size

32 hours

79 hours

Admitted to year 2 Jazz & Pop or, after audition, Composition for 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.

Acquiring and developing ensemble playing skills in repertoire of the relevant style.
Improving stage performance.

This module is related to the main subject module.

This band will explore a broad range of Brazilian rhythms, including Samba, Baião, Forró, Frevo, Maracatu, Ijexá, Bossa Nova, and Choro, as well as composers such as Toninho Horta, Filó Machado, Dominguinhos, Baden Powell, Hermeto Pascoal, and others. This gives the students a solid overview of the richness and diversity of Brazilian music. They are also composing original pieces using the rhythms they’ve learned in class.

Band rehearsals and performances.

Handed out by the instructor (where applicable).

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

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

General criteria: creativity, improvisation, sheet music, sense of harmony, rhythmic idioms, timing and tempo control, musical interaction, intonation, reading skills, sound, interpretation, style awareness, form principles, tonal balance, preparation, accompaniment, active participation and attitude.
Performing a repertoire of 8-16 pieces studied and rehearsed in a band setting.
Recognizing the most important Latin styles by ear and playing both the basic and more complex patterns and style elements.

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.