M-JP-EBDEX

Practical Classes

4

5 - 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, 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. Development of creative, practical and social skills required for playing in a group. Mastering different roles, learning to improvise in connection to the material of a song.

This module is related to the main subject module.

Students bring original (short, unfinished) ideas to the rehearsals. Together we take time to montage them into songs. Crossing over the boundaries of music styles and genres. Crossing over the usual arrangements.

We jam on ideas to work them out. Tweak on effect pedals or synths. Maybe play the instruments with extended techniques. Searching to create tension, contrast, surprise, experiment - a bit more theatrical way of making the musical choices.

Music styles ranging from indie to chamber jazz, from world folk to ambient electronic... Maybe we create a whole new genre! Think of artists like Mestizx, Radiohead, Kit Downes, Irreversible Entanglements, Cloudfish, Laura Jurd, electric Miles Davis.

If you're curious what happens if you explore raw music/song ideas together in unexpected directions, this elective is for you.

This band is initiated by Hartog Eysman. Note that we can not guarantee which teacher will lead a band, this will be clear by September.

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.

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.

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.