MUSC 128 Chamber Jazz and Improvisation

This course will serve as an intensive laboratory component to the Occidental jazz program by having students learn the fundamentals of jazz theory including the following: extensions of common practice tonality; modes; form; notational practice and reading from charts; basic arranging and instrumentation; and transcription. Weekly written theory and listening assignments will be supplemented by performance assignments. In class students as well as instructor will critique one another's performances.