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MUSC 145 Schedule Fall 2015

This document outlines the course schedule for a Jazz History class being taught in the Fall 2015 semester. It lists the dates of each class meeting and the assigned readings and activities for students. Key topics to be covered include the origins and evolution of jazz styles like blues, New Orleans jazz, bebop, cool jazz, and fusion. Students will take 4 exams throughout the semester to test their understanding of the material. The final exam will be comprehensive but the listening portion will focus only on the most recent unit.

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MUSC 145 Schedule Fall 2015

This document outlines the course schedule for a Jazz History class being taught in the Fall 2015 semester. It lists the dates of each class meeting and the assigned readings and activities for students. Key topics to be covered include the origins and evolution of jazz styles like blues, New Orleans jazz, bebop, cool jazz, and fusion. Students will take 4 exams throughout the semester to test their understanding of the material. The final exam will be comprehensive but the listening portion will focus only on the most recent unit.

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(Dr. Stephen R.

Anderson)

MUSIC 145 JAZZ HISTORY


Course Schedule, Fall 2015
August 18: Course Introduction / HW: Download Course Syllabus and Schedule; test audio website
August 20: Elements of Music and American Music Overview / Read pp. 3-18; Music Notation A9-A17
August 25: Elements of Music and American Music Overview / Read pp. 26-55
August 27: The Blues / Read pp. 22-25
September 1: Early Jazz, New Orleans, Chicago, and New York / Read pp. 57-74
September 3: Early Jazz, New Orleans, Chicago, and New York / Read pp. 97-117
September 8: Harlem Stride and Boogie Woogie / Read pp. 85-87; 188-190; 141-142
September 10: Catch Up Day
September 15: EXAM 1
September 17: Pre-Swing Era Large Bands / Sweet Bands, Hot Jazz, and Cotton Club / Read pp. 77-95
September 22: Swing Era Big Bands / Read pp. 123-163
September 24: Important Soloists / Later Big Bands Cont / Read pp. 165-199
September 29: Singers 177-185; 333-337
October 1: Bebop / Read pp. 207-232; also Three Elements of Bebop on Sakai site
October 6: Bebop continued
October 8: Cubop / Read pp. 337-342
October 13: EXAM 2
October 15: FALL BREAK NO CLASS
October 20: Hard Bop / Other Players in the 50s and 60s / Read pp. 245-257
October 22: Cool and Modal / Lennie Tristano, Miles Davis, Gil Evans, Kind of Blue / Read pp. 237-244; 269-271
October 27: Refined Sophisticated / West Coast Jazz / The Bossa Nova Craze / Read pp. 235-244; 342-345
October 29: John Coltrane / Read pp. 286-292
November 3: Monk and Mingus / Read pp. 259-267
November 5: The Bill Evans Trio / The Second Great Miles Quintet / Read pp. 277-285; 292-301
DUE: ESSAY-MUSICAL ANALYSIS (by 11:59pm)
November 10: The Avant Garde Movement and Free Jazz / Read pp. 307-325
November 12: EXAM 3
November 17: Fusion and ECM / Read pp. 347-371
November 19: Modern Jazz / Read pp. 380-401
November 24: Modern Jazz
November 26: THANKSGIVING BREAK NO CLASS
December 1: Modern Jazz / DUE: LAST DAY TO TURN IN CONCERT REPORTS (5pm)

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10 AT 12 NOON:


EXAM 4 (FINAL EXAM) (HANES 121)

*The final exam will be


comprehensive, comprising all
exam review material from
previous exams, however the
listening identification will only
include audio from the final unit.

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