M-JP-EBDNOC

Practical Classes

4

5 to 12 students.

15

90-120 minutes. Class time will not be adjusted after the start of the academic year due to any change in group size.

32 hours

79 hours

Admitted to year 2 Jazz & Pop. 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.

This module is related to the main subject module.

With “New Orleans Calling” we’re going back to the earliest form of jazz as being played in the 1920’s in New Orleans, where the rhythms of the military marching bands and the West African clave started to blend, together with the melodies and harmonies from the church (Gospel) and the nightclub (vaudeville). We will focus on the art of collective improvisation through harmonic voice leading, playing counterpoint, call and response, by taking the music of King Oliver, Buddy Bolden, Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton and many others as an example.

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, composition, interpretation, style awareness, form principles, tonal balance, preparation, accompaniment, performance, 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.