BMus Jazz Performance Course structure

Subject Name: Concert Performance Practice 1
Subject Code: 11107
Credit Points: 3
Award(s): Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance, Diploma of Music in Jazz Performance
Core / Elective: Core
Pre / co-requisites: Students who do not pass a semester of this subject will be required to repeat
Modes: Full-time. On campus only.
Delivery / Contact hrs: 2 hour practical class per week for 12 weeks
Subject Coordinator: Paula Girvan
Teaching Staff: Paula Girvan, Ben Hauptmann

Subject Rationale:
Jazz musicians need to perform together with other musicians and be able to engage in reflective and analytical discourse about their own performance and that of their peers. Concert Performance Practice gives students the opportunity to perform among and with their peers and engage in such discourse.

In the context of this course, Concert Performance Practice provides the outlet in which the students’ developing body of knowledge and skills come together in performance and critical analysis. It offers a range of performance practice formats and styles which build the students’ experiences from conceptual and practical perspectives. Covering all set lists, it expands student familiarity with repertoire. Both sequenced and layered in experience, the subject has students draw upon their own understanding of jazz style, materials, historical and social contexts, and performance practice to make informed comments on their own work and that of their peers. Engaging with students of different levels of experience expands the breadth of their experience.

This subject involves all students from all levels and is a core subject throughout all semesters of study. Thus, it exposes all students to all set repertoire lists, although they will only be required to perform from the list appropriate to their level.

Learning Outcomes
Through reflective and analytical discourse about their own performance and that of their peers, their ensemble participation and leadership, improvisation, technique, and presentation, students will develop the knowledge and confidence required to:

1. Engage in critical listening and constructive reflection on performance
2. Expand their understanding of theoretical and stylistic concepts
3. Write constructively in response to own and peer performances
4. Enhance their own performance skills through analysis and reflection
5. Lead a performance ensemble

Assessment

Subject Name: Ensemble 1
Subject Code: 11113
Credit Points: 5
Award(s): Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance, Diploma of Music in Jazz Performance
Core / Elective: Core
Pre / co-requisites: Nil
Modes: Full-time, in person. On campus only.
Delivery / Contact hrs: 2 Hours per week for 12 weeks
Subject Coordinator: Paula Girvan
Teaching Staff: All Sessional Staff

Subject Rationale
Professional jazz players need highly developed ensemble skills and experience. Ensemble aptitude is therefore an integral component of the course for all students. In this subject, students experience the dynamics of working in a jazz ensemble and develop skills and understanding appropriate to this setting. In the context of this course, Ensemble brings all the elements together, practical and theoretical. Using the set repertoire which students are learning in Principal Study and developing through Improvisation and Concert Performance Practice, it integrates student experience of all set repertoire through a sense of balance, style, timing, tone colour, intonation, interpretation, sectional and sight reading skills, etiquette and ethics relevant to ensemble performance. In this subject students will be placed in one or more small group ensembles and will develop repertoire from the supporting repertoire lists as well as other suggestions from students and teachers. All chosen repertoire will be learned, practised and analysed in this subject, using knowledge and skills developed in other subjects of the course. Ensemble classes will refine listening skills, reading skills, and blending within an ensemble. It is recommended that ensembles rehearse regularly outside the formal supervised times. Although there is a focus on small ensembles, students have the opportunity to play in a range of ensembles, including various jazz combos, vocal groups, duos, trios, quartets, quintets and larger contemporary music ensembles depending on the student cohort.

Learning Outcomes:
Through effective integration of the knowledge and skills gained from other subjects in this course, on successful completion of this subject, students will be able to

1. Demonstrate effective group cohesion within an ensemble
2. Perform selected repertoire and musical arrangements, using skills of sight reading and improvisation informed by theoretical, historical and contextual understanding of the music
3. Engage in collaborative discussion and peer review of the ensemble’s performance
4. Demonstrate efficient rehearsal strategies

Weekly Topics           

• Define musical direction of ensemble,
• Organise repertoire from supporting repertoire list,
• Organise arrangements,
• Implement repertoire,
• Implement arrangements,
• Rehearse repertoire,
• Rehearse arrangements,
• Critical listening for arrangement ideas,
• Rehearsal for performance

Assessment

Subject Name: Principal Study 1
Subject Code: 11145
Credit Points: 12
Award(s): Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance, Diploma of Music in Jazz Performance
Core / Elective: Core
Pre / co-requisites: Nil.
Modes: In person. On campus only
Delivery / Contact hrs: 1 hour per week for 12 weeks
Subject Coordinator: Paula Girvan
Teaching Staff: Sessional staff

Subject Rationale:
Principal Study 1 develops each student’s technical skill in their discipline, and challenges and extends their artistic understanding and creativity. The study is sequenced according to the needs and abilities of each individual, and the demands of each instrument. In the context of this course, Principal Study prepares the student technically and musically to be able to apply knowledge learned in academic and practical  classes and developed in ensembles. Study is undertaken through individual lessons, workshops and masterclasses in the instrument/voice, in which the student’s technical and musical proficiency is assessed and developed and a range of repertoire is explored.

Principal Study uses the repertoire list to foster:

• a thorough technical foundation in the instrument,
• the ability to perform required repertoire confidently in public,
• the ability to express and communicate artistic ideas and intentions,
• a secure knowledge of repertoire and style
• independence and problem solving,
• self reliance in practice
• critical reflection on personal musical expression
• self motivation and organisation
• management of physical demands, and
• an ability to meet practical requirements and deadlines

Learning Outcomes:           

On successful completion of this subject, students will be able to demonstrate developing understanding and proficiency in all aspects of performance relative to their instrument/voice and commensurate with established international benchmarks, in particular:

1. Secure technical skills
2. The ability to perform required repertoire, scales and chords with accuracy and fluency, displaying rhythmic control with developing expressive sense
3. The ability to express creative ideas using musical language
4. A sound knowledge of relevant literature and set repertoire
5. Knowledge of and sensitivity to stylistic features of jazz (tone, phrasing, rhythm, feel, etc) found in set repertoire
6. The ability to improvise creatively appropriate to skill development and set repertoire

Repertoire list
Mack The Knife
Bye Bye Blackbird
Blue Bossa
Autumn Leaves
Honeysuckle Rose
Take The A Train
**Blue Monk
**Now’s The Time
**Lester Leaps In
Assessment

Subject Name: Aural and Analysis 1
Subject Code: 12101
Credit Points: 5
Award(s): Bachelor of Music Jazz in Jazz Performance, Diploma of Music in Jazz Performance
Core/Elective: Core
Pre/Co-requisites: Nil
Modes: Full-Time. On Campus only
Delivery / Contact hours: 2 hr Lecture per week for 12 weeks
Subject Coordinator: Paula Girvan
Teaching Staff: Paula Girvan

Subject Rationale
Musicians (and particularly jazz musicians) rely heavily on aural acuity in making appropriate interactions during performance. This subject is therefore critical to overall progress for each student, because it re-establishes the ear as the primary element in the creation and reception of jazz music. The subject unites the areas of listening, aural analysis and memory to give students a greater degree of musical perception and awareness. In the context of this course, through aural analysis this subject enhances performance through the development of aural memory and awareness, and integrates with other subjects by developing aural recognition of rhythmic, harmonic (diatonic and modal) and melodic elements of set repertoire. Through aural analysis, this subject broadens stylistic knowledge in parallel with Jazz in Context, and the practice-based classes. Aural & Analysis classes develop aural awareness through multi-tasking, combining such skills as listening, aural modelling, conceptual tasking, analysing, performance, sight-singing, memorisation and improvisation in an interactive group.

Learning Outcomes:
Aural and Analysis 1 will consist of fundamental recognition including intervals, intonation, chord quality, and rhythm and chord progressions as set for this level. On successful completion of the subject, students will be able to:

1. Recognise, aurally analyse and reproduce chords and intervals set for this level
2. Aurally analyse chord quality and progression
3. Recognise and correctly notate rhythmic patterns
4. Perform tasks involving aural cognition and coordination, e.g. identifying and responding to indifferent intonation; listening and transcribing musical elements

Assessment

Subject Name: Jazz in Context 1
Subject Code: 12131
Credit Points: 5
Award(s): Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance, Diploma of Music in Jazz Performance
Core / Elective: Core
Pre / co-requisites: Nil
Modes: Full-time, in person. On campus only
Delivery / Contact hrs: 2 hour lecture per week for 12 weeks.
Subject Coordinator: Paula Girvan
Teaching Staff: Andrew Shaw

Subject Rationale:
An understanding of jazz in its historical and social contexts builds a body of knowledge on which the professional musician draws in performance. In the context of this course, Jazz in Context develops an understanding of the music being performed by students in their practice-based subjects. Although it does not entirely depend on the set repertoire list, there are close relationships between the Semester 1 Repertoire List and the material studied in Jazz in Context 1. This subject therefore connects with Principal Study, Ensemble, Improvisation and Concert Performance Practice. This subject also refers to the musical context by linking repertoire and artists to the musical practices they use, thus linking to some degree with Jazz Materials 1 and Aural & Analysis 1. This subject develops the student’s ability to formulate and express their musical ideas, informed by historical, cultural and stylistic concepts and practice. Through research, analysis, discussion and critical reflection, it builds context around key composers, performers, compositions and musical forms from early jazz styles through to the end of the 1950s. Students will research the work of individual artists in their historical and social settings through reading, critical listening and discussion, to gain an understanding of early jazz.

Learning Outcomes:
Through consideration and evaluation of past practice, students will build a foundation from which they are able to:

1. Reveal an understanding of the background of early jazz and its relationship to African slavery and pre-jazz musical setting.
2. Reveal a broad awareness and understanding of how jazz relates to its cultural setting in the period from the late 1800s to 1959
3. Demonstrate an understanding of the principles of critical and academic writing about jazz
4. Demonstrate developing skills in information literacy, research and documentation
5. Reveal a developing capacity for discernment and critical thinking

Assessment:

Subject Name: Jazz Materials 1
Subject Code: 12133
Credit Points: 5
Award(s): Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance, Diploma of Music in Jazz Performance
Core / Elective: Core
Pre / co-requisites: Nil
Modes: Full-Time. On campus only.
Delivery / Contact hrs: 2 Hour lecture per week for 12 weeks
Subject Coordinator: Paula Girvan
Teaching Staff: Paula Girvan

Subject Rationale:
In this subject students develop a working knowledge of jazz theory as it is applied in practice. It fosters awareness and understanding of jazz harmony, melody, rhythm and notation which will serve their needs as performers, composers, arrangers, teachers, and other professions in the jazz.

Learning Outcomes:
Jazz Materials 1 will develop fundamental theoretical concepts of jazz. In this subject students will develop a clear understanding of, and ability to demonstrate:

1. Conceptual understanding of the musical components and processes in jazz and basic Western harmony
2. Acquired knowledge of Western harmonic progressions which are relevant also to jazz
3. Acquired capacity to integrate musical knowledge and skills

Assessment:

Subject Name: Improvisation Techniques 1
Subject Code: 13119
Credit Points: 5
Award(s): Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance, Diploma of Music in Jazz Performance
Core / Elective: Core
Pre / co-requisites: Nil
Modes: Full-time. On campus only.
Delivery / Contact hrs: 2 hours per week for 12 weeks
Subject Coordinator: Paula Girvan
Teaching Staff: Josh Hatcher, Mike Anderson

Subject Rationale
Excellent skills in improvisation are essential to jazz musicians, and therefore form a fundamental component of this course. This subject develops skills and conceptual understanding of improvisation. In the context of this course, Improvisation uses set repertoire and general improvisation concepts which are in common with those in Principal Study 1, Ensemble 1, Jazz Materials 1, Aural & Analysis and Concert Performance Practice 1. Students build a basic range of melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic improvisation techniques common to jazz, and trial and extend them in class, through analysis and practical application and reference to theoretical knowledge. In the process, they also develop sight reading and sectional skills. Improvisation 1 focuses on Major, Dominant, Dorian Minor scales and the ii-7/V7/I progression, applying these harmonic concepts in a practical, creative manner to achieve fluency integrated with the understanding achieved by analysing the same repertoire in other core subjects.

Learning Outcomes:
Through increasingly creative improvisation founded on theory and practice, on successful completion, students will be expected to:

1. Demonstrate a sound knowledge of a fundamental range of melodic, harmonic and rhythmical improvisational techniques
2. Demonstrate through performance; the melody, harmony and rhythm of core repertoire from memory
3. Reveal internalised basic melodic, harmonic and rhythmical improvisational techniques which have been developed through critical listening
4. Demonstrate relevant practical and aural skills in applying an understanding of harmony and melody through fluent improvisation

Assessment:

Subject Name: Concert Performance Practice 2
Subject Code: 11108
Credit Points: 3
Award(s): Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance, Diploma of Music in Jazz Performance
Core / Elective: Core
Pre / co-requisites: Students who do not pass a semester of this subject will be required to repeat
Modes: Full-time. On campus only.
Delivery / Contact hrs: 2 hour practical class per week for 12 weeks
Subject Coordinator: Paula Girvan
Teaching Staff: Paula Girvan, Ben Hauptmann

Subject Rationale:
Jazz musicians need to perform together with other musicians, and be able to engage in reflective and analytical discourse about their own performance and that of their peers. Concert Performance Practice gives students the opportunity to perform among and with their peers and engage in such discourse. In the context of this course, Concert Performance Practice provides the outlet in which the students’ developing body of knowledge and skills come together in performance and critical analysis. It offers a range of performance practice formats and styles which build the student  s’ experiences from conceptual and practical perspectives. Covering all set lists, it expands student familiarity with repertoire. Both sequenced and layered in experience, the subject has students draw upon their own understanding of jazz style, materials, historical and social contexts, and performance practice to make informed comments on their own work and that of their peers. Engaging with students of different levels of experience expands the breadth of their experience. This subject involves all students from all levels and is a core subject throughout all semesters of study. Thus it exposes all students to all set repertoire lists, although they will only be required to perform from the list appropriate to their level.

Learning Outcomes
Through reflective and analytical discourse about their own performance and that of their peers, their ensemble participation and leadership, improvisation, technique, and presentation, students will develop the knowledge and confidence required to:

1. Engage in critical listening and constructive reflection on performance
2. Expand their understanding of theoretical and stylistic concepts
3. Write effectively and constructively in response to own and peer performances
4. Demonstrate insightful performances influenced by analysis and reflection
5. Demonstrate informed leadership in a performance ensemble

Assessment

Subject Name: Ensemble 2
Subject Code: 11114
Credit Points: 5
Award(s): Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance, Diploma of Music in Jazz Performance
Core / Elective: Core
Pre / co-requisites: Nil
Modes: Full-time, in person. On campus only.
Delivery / Contact hrs: 2 Hours per week for 12 weeks
Subject Coordinator: Paula Girvan
Teaching Staff: Sessional Staff

Subject Rationale
Professional jazz players need highly developed ensemble skills and experience. Ensemble aptitude is therefore an integral component of the course for all students. In this subject, students experience the dynamics of working in a jazz ensemble and develop skills and understanding appropriate to this setting. In the context of this course, Ensemble brings all the elements together, practical and theoretical. Using the set repertoire which students are learning in Principal Study and developing through Improvisation and Concert Performance Practice, it integrates student experience of all set repertoire through a sense of balance, style, timing, tone colour, intonation, interpretation, sectional playing and sight reading, etiquette and ethics relevant to ensemble performance. In this subject students will be placed in one or more small group ensembles and will develop repertoire from the supporting lists as well as other suggestions from students and teachers. All chosen repertoire will be learned, practised and analysed in this subject, using knowledge and skills developed in other subjects of the course. Ensemble classes will refine listening skills, reading skills, and blending within an ensemble. It is recommended that ensembles rehearse regularly outside the formal supervised times. Although there is a focus on small ensembles, students have the opportunity to play in a range of ensembles, including various jazz combos, vocal groups, duos, trios, quartets, quintets and larger contemporary music ensembles depending on the student cohort.

Learning Outcomes:
Through effective integration of the knowledge and skills gained from other subjects in this course, on successful completion of this subject, students will be able to

1. Demonstrate effective group cohesion within an ensemble
2. Perform selected repertoire and musical arrangements, using skills of sight reading and improvisation informed by theoretical, historical and contextual understanding of the music.
3. Engage in collaborative discussion and peer review of each ensemble’s performance
4. Demonstrate increasingly efficient rehearsal strategies

Assessment

Subject Name: Principal Study 2
Subject Code: 11146
Credit Points: 12
Award(s): Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance, Diploma of Music in Jazz Performance
Core / Elective: Core
Pre / co-requisites: Principal Study 1
Modes: In person. On campus only
Delivery / Contact hrs: 1 hour per week for 12 weeks
Subject Coordinator: Paula Girvan
Teaching Staff: Sessional staff

Subject Rationale
Principal Study 2 develops each student’s technical skill in their discipline, and challenges and extends their artistic understanding and creativity. The study is sequenced according to the needs and abilities of each individual, and the demands of each instrument. In the context of this course, Principal Study prepares the student technically and musically to be able to apply knowledge developed in academic and practical classes. Study is undertaken through individual lessons, workshops and masterclasses in the instrument/voice, in which the student’s technical and musical proficiency is assessed and developed and a range of repertoire is explored, including that from the set repertoire list.

Principal Study uses the repertoire list to foster:

• a thorough technical foundation in the instrument, repertoire and stylistic knowledge,
• the ability to perform required repertoire confidently in public,
• the ability to express and communicate artistic ideas and intentions,
• secure knowledge of repertoire and style
• independence and problem solving,
• self reliance in practice
• critical reflection on personal musical expression
• self motivation and organisation
• management of physical demands, and
• an ability to meet practical requirements and deadlines

Learning Outcomes:         

On successful completion of this subject, students will be able to demonstrate developing understanding and proficiency in all aspects of performance relative to their instrument/voice and commensurate with established international benchmarks, in particular:

1. Secure technical skills
2. The ability to perform required repertoire, scales and chords with accuracy and fluency, displaying rhythmic control with developing expressive sense
3. A sound knowledge of relevant literature and set repertoire
4. Knowledge of stylistic features of jazz (tone, phrasing, rhythm, feel, etc) relevant to set repertoire
5. Ability to improvise creatively appropriate to skill development, and using set repertoire

Repertoire list:
Broadway
In Mellow Tone
Beautiful Love
There Is No Greater Love
There Will Never Be Another You
Sweet Georgia Brown
**Tenor Madness
**Doxy
**I Can’t Get Started
Assessment:
A graded result reflects the level of achievement in technical assessments and recitals. During the semester, each student receives regular critical feedback and formative evaluation by staff in individual and group contexts. The following assessment requirements may vary according to the nature of the instrument. Detailed guidelines setting out specific requirements and assessment criteria for each discipline will be provided to the student.

Subject Name: Aural and Analysis 2
Subject Code: 12102
Credit Points: 5
Award(s): Bachelor of Music Jazz in Jazz Performance, Diploma of Music in Jazz Performance
Core/Elective: Core
Pre/Co-requisites: Aural and Analysis 1
Modes: Full-Time. On Campus only
Delivery / Contact hours: 2 hr Lecture per week for 12 weeks
Subject Coordinator: Paula Girvan
Teaching Staff: Paula Girvan

Subject Rationale
Musicians (and particularly jazz musicians) rely heavily on aural acuity in making appropriate interactions during performance. This subject unites the areas of listening, aural analysis and memory and is therefore critical to overall progress for each student, because it re-establishes the ear as the primary element in the creation and reception of jazz music. In the context of this course, through aural analysis this subject enhances performance through the development of aural memory and awareness, and integrates with other subjects by developing aural recognition of rhythmic, harmonic (diatonic and modal) and melodic elements of set repertoire. Through aural analysis, this subject broadens stylistic knowledge in parallel with Jazz in Context, and the practice-based classes. Aural & Analysis classes develop aural awareness through multi-tasking, combining such skills as listening, aural modelling, conceptual tasking, analysing, performance, sight-singing, memorisation and improvisation in an interactive group.

Learning Outcomes:
Aural and Analysis 2 continues to advance aural awareness through recognition of increasingly complex intervals, intonation, chord quality, and rhythm and chord progressions as set for this level. It introduces modes and modal harmony.

On successful completion of the subject, students will be able to:

1. Recognise, aurally analyse and accurately reproduce intervals and chords set for this level
2. Aurally analyse chord quality and progression
3. Recognise and correctly notate the rhythmic patterns set for this level
4. Perform tasks involving aural cognition and coordination, e.g. identifying and responding to indifferent intonation; listening and correctly transcribing musical elements

Assessment

Subject Name: Jazz in Context 2
Subject Code: 12132
Credit Points: 5
Award(s): Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance, Diploma of Music in Jazz Performance
Core / Elective: Core
Pre / co-requisites: Jazz in Context 1
Modes: Full-time, in person. On campus only
Delivery / Contact hrs: 2 hour lecture per week for 12 weeks.
Subject Coordinator: Paula Girvan
Teaching Staff: Andrew Shaw

Subject Rationale:
An understanding of jazz in its historical and social contexts builds a body of knowledge on which the professional musician draws in performance. In the context of this course, Jazz in Context develops an understanding of the music being performed by students in their practice-based subjects. Although it does not entirely depend on the set repertoire list, there are close relationships between the Semester 1 Repertoire List and the material studied in Jazz in Context 1. This subject therefore connects with Principal Study, Ensemble, Improvisation and Concert Performance Practice. This subject also refers to the musical context by linking repertoire and artists to the musical practices they use, thus linking to some degree with Jazz Materials 1 and Aural & Analysis 1. This subject builds context around key composers, performers, compositions and musical forms from mid-20^th century through to the current day. Students will research the work of individual artists in their historical and social settings through reading, critical listening and discussion, to gain an understanding of modern jazz.

Learning Outcomes:
Through consideration and evaluation of past and present practice, students will build a foundation from which they are able to:

1. Reveal an understanding of the developments in jazz in the latter part of the 20th century and the early 21st century
2. Demonstrate an understanding of jazz in the contemporary Australian context
3. Reveal through coherent written language, developing skills in information literacy, research, critical analysis and documentation
4. Demonstrate skills of critical listening through correctly identifying different jazz styles and artists, including Australian examples.

Assessment:

Subject Name: Jazz Materials 2
Subject Code: 12134
Credit Points: 5
Award(s): Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance, Diploma of Music in Jazz Performance
Core / Elective: Core
Pre / co-requisites: Jazz Materials 1
Modes: Full-Time. On campus only.
Delivery / Contact hrs: 2 Hour lecture per week for 12 weeks
Subject Coordinator: Paula Girvan
Teaching Staff: Paula Girvan

Subject Rationale:
In this subject students develop a working knowledge of jazz theory as it is applied in practice. It fosters awareness and understanding of jazz harmony, melody, rhythm and notation which will serve their needs as performers, composers, arrangers, teachers, and other professions in the jazz.

Learning Outcomes:
In this subject students will develop a clear understanding of, and ability to demonstrate:

1. A clear conceptual understanding of the musical components and processes in jazz and modal harmony
2. An acquired knowledge of modal and other harmonic progressions used in jazz
3. An acquired capacity to integrate musical knowledge and skills
4. An ability to apply the concepts of this subject in practice

Assessment:

Subject Name: Improvisation Techniques 2
Subject Code: 13120
Credit Points: 5
Award(s): Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance, Diploma of Music in Jazz Performance
Core / Elective: Core
Pre / co-requisites: Improvisation Techniques 1
Modes: Full-time. On campus only.
Delivery / Contact hrs: 2 hours per week for 12 weeks
Subject Coordinator: Paula Girvan
Teaching Staff: Josh Hatcher, Mike Anderson

Subject Rationale
Excellent skills in improvisation are essential to jazz musicians, and therefore form a fundamental component of this course. This subject develops skills and conceptual understanding of improvisation. In the context of this course, Improvisation uses set repertoire and general improvisation concepts which are in common with those in Principal Study, Ensemble, Jazz Materials, Aural & Analysis and Contemporary Performance Practice. This subject builds on the improvisational concepts learned in Improvisation Studies 1 by providing a range of approaches to modal harmony and its application to the repertoire specified for this semester through analysis and practical application. . In the process, they also develop sight reading and sectional skills. Improvisation 2 focuses on applying modal concepts in a practical, creative manner to achieve fluency linked to the understanding achieved by analysing the same repertoire in other core subjects in this semester.

Learning Outcomes:
Through increasingly creative improvisation founded on theory and practice, on successful completion, students will be expected to:

1. Demonstrate a sound knowledge of a fundamental range of melodic, harmonic and rhythmical improvisational techniques, particularly those based on modal harmony
2. Demonstrate through performance; the melody, harmony and rhythm of core repertoire from memory
3. Reveal  internalised fundamental melodic, modal and rhythmical improvisational techniques which have been developed through critical listening
4. Demonstrate relevant practical and aural skills in applying a basic understanding of modal concepts through fluent improvisation

Assessment:

Subject Name: Concert Performance Practice 3
Subject Code: 21109
Credit Points: 3
Award(s): Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance
Core / Elective: Core
Pre / co-requisites: Students who do not pass a semester of this subject will be required to repeat
Modes: Full-time. On campus only.
Delivery / Contact hrs: 2 hour practical class per week for 13 weeks
Subject Coordinator: Paula Girvan
Teaching Staff: Paula Girvan, Ben Hauptmann

Subject Rationale:
Jazz musicians need to perform together with other musicians, and be able to engage in reflective and analytical discourse about their own performance and that of their peers. Concert Performance Practice gives students the opportunity to perform among and with their peers and engage in such discourse. In the context of this course, Concert Performance Practice provides the outlet in which the students’ developing body of knowledge and skills come together in performance and critical analysis. It offers a range of performance practice formats and styles which build the student  s’ experiences from conceptual and practical perspectives. Covering all set lists, it expands student familiarity with repertoire. Both sequenced and layered in experience, the subject has students draw upon their own understanding of jazz style, materials, historical and social contexts, and performance practice to make informed comments on their own work and that of their peers. Engaging with students of different levels of experience expands the breadth of their experience. This subject involves all students from all levels and is a core subject throughout all semesters of study. Thus it exposes all students to all set repertoire lists, although they will only be required to perform from the list appropriate to their level.

Learning Outcomes
Through reflective and analytical discourse about their own performance and that of their peers, their ensemble participation and leadership, improvisation, technique, and presentation, students will develop the knowledge and confidence required to:

1. Engage in critical listening and constructive reflection on performance
2. Expand their understanding of theoretical and stylistic concepts
3. Write constructively in response to the performances of their peers, noting sectional skills and sight reading
4. Enhance their own performance skills through analysis and reflection
5. Lead a performance ensemble
6. Write constructively in response to their own performance

Assessment

Subject Name: Ensemble 3
Subject Code: 21115
Credit Points: 5
Award(s): Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance
Core / Elective: Core
Pre / co-requisites: Ensemble 2
Modes: Full-time, in person. On campus only.
Delivery / Contact hrs: 2 Hours per week for 12 weeks
Subject Coordinator: Paula Girvan
Teaching Staff: All Sessional Staff

Subject Rationale
Professional jazz players need highly developed ensemble skills and experience. Ensemble aptitude is therefore an integral component of the course for all students. In this subject, students experience the dynamics of working in a jazz ensemble and develop skills and understanding appropriate to this setting. In the context of this course, Ensemble brings all the elements together, practical and theoretical. Using the set repertoire which students are learning in Principal Study and developing through Improvisation and Contemporary Performance Practice, it integrates student experience of all set repertoire through a sense of balance, style, timing, tone colour, intonation, interpretation, sectional playing and sight reading, etiquette and ethics relevant to ensemble performance. In this subject students will be placed in one or more small group ensembles and will develop repertoire from the supporting lists as well as other suggestions from students and teachers. All chosen repertoire will be learned, practised and analysed in this subject, using knowledge and skills developed in other subjects of the course. Ensemble classes will refine listening skills, reading skills, and blending within an ensemble. It is recommended that ensembles rehearse regularly outside the formal supervised times. Although there is a focus on small ensembles, students have the opportunity to play in a range of ensembles, including various jazz combos, vocal groups, duos, trios, quartets, quintets and larger contemporary music ensembles depending on the student cohort.

Learning Outcomes:
Through effective integration of the knowledge and skills gained from other subjects in this course, on successful completion of this subject, students will be able to

1. Demonstrate effective sectional skills and group cohesion within an ensemble whilst playing in different tempi, keys and styles
2. Demonstrate advanced sight reading and performance skills in set and selected repertoire, revealing understanding of jazz style and interpretative principles, and applying improvisation informed by theoretical, historical and contextual understanding of the music.
3. Engage in collaborative discussion and peer review of each ensemble’s performance
4. Analyse melodic and harmonic structure and collaborate on musical arrangements
5. Demonstrate increasingly efficient rehearsal strategies resulting in confident performances
6. Demonstrate highly reliable intonation, and good communication skills within an

Assessment

Subject Name: Principal Study 3
Subject Code: 21147
Credit Points: 12
Award(s): Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance
Core / Elective: Core
Pre / co-requisites: Principal Study 2
Modes: In person. On campus only
Delivery / Contact hrs: 1 hour per week for 13 weeks
Subject Coordinator: Paula Girvan
Teaching Staff: Sessional staff

Subject Rationale:
Principal Study 3 develops each student’s technical skill in their discipline, and challenges and extends their artistic understanding and creativity. The study is sequenced according to the needs and abilities of each individual, and the demands of each instrument. In the context of this course, Principal Study prepares the student technically and musically to be able to apply knowledge developed in academic and practical classes and ensembles. Study is undertaken through individual lessons, workshops and masterclasses in the instrument/voice, in which the student’s technical and musical proficiency is assessed and developed and a range of repertoire is explored.

Principal Study uses the repertoire list to foster:

• an advancing technical foundation in the instrument, repertoire and stylistic knowledge,
• the ability to perform required repertoire confidently in public,
• the ability to express and communicate artistic ideas and intentions,
• secure knowledge of repertoire and stylistic understanding
• independence and problem solving,
• self reliance in practice
• depth in critical reflection on personal musical expression
• self motivation and organisation
• management of physical demands, and
• reliability in meeting practical requirements and deadlines

Learning Outcomes:
On successful completion of this subject, students will be able to demonstrate developing understanding and proficiency in all aspects of performance relative to their instrument/voice commensurate with established international benchmarks, in particular:

1. Advanced and secure technical skills
2. The ability to perform required repertoire in public with accuracy and fluency, displaying rhymic control with an advancing expressive range
3. Advancing ability to express creative ideas using musical language
4. Depth of knowledge of relevant literature and repertoire, scales and chords set to date
5. A deep knowledge of stylistic features of jazz (tone, phrasing, rhythm, feel, etc) relevant to repertoire experienced to date
6. Memorised and prepared 12 standard repertoire tunes, as set for this level.
7. An advancing ability to improvise creatively using set repertoire
8. A well developed conceptual understanding of the pieces performed together with an ability to communicate them to the audience with confidence
9. Advanced and independent practice habits

Repertoire list
All The Things You Are
Out Of Nowhere
How Deep Is The Ocean
On Green Dolphin Street
If I Were A Bell
Groovin’ High
**Embraceable You
** Blues For Alice
**Fungii Mama
Assessment

Subject Name: Aural and Analysis 3
Subject Code: 22103
Credit Points: 5
Award(s): Bachelor of Music Jazz in Jazz performance
Core/Elective: Core
Pre/Co-requisites: Aural and Analysis 2
Modes: Full-Time. On Campus only
Delivery / Contact hours: 2 hr Lecture per week for 13 weeks
Subject Coordinator: Paula Girvan
Teaching Staff: Charlotte Mclean

Subject Rationale
Musicians (and particularly jazz musicians) rely heavily on aural acuity in making appropriate interactions during performance. This subject unites the areas of listening, aural analysis and memory and is therefore critical to overall progress for each student, because it re-establishes the ear as the primary element in the creation and reception of jazz music. In the context of this course, through aural analysis this subject enhances performance through the development of aural memory and awareness, and integrates with other subjects by developing aural recognition of rhythmic, harmonic (diatonic and modal) and melodic elements of set repertoire. Through aural analysis, this subject broadens stylistic knowledge in parallel with Jazz in Context, and the practice-based classes. Aural & Analysis classes develop aural awareness through multi-tasking, combining such skills as listening, aural modelling, conceptual tasking, analysing, performance, sight-singing, memorisation and improvisation in an interactive group. 

Learning Outcomes:
Aural and Analysis 3 continues to advance aural awareness through recognition of increasingly complex intervals, intonation, chord quality, and rhythm and chord progressions, and adding modes, transcriptions and perception of texture/timbre as set for this level.

On successful completion of the subject, students will be able to:

1. Recognise, aurally analyse and accurately reproduce intervals, and chords set for this level
2. Aurally analyse chord quality and progressions, including turnarounds
3. Aurally analyse timbral and textural detail and variance
4. Recognise and correctly reproduce increasingly complex rhythmic patterns as set for this level
5. Perform tasks involving aural cognition and coordination, e.g. identifying and responding to indifferent intonation; accurately transcribing from recorded and live sources

Assessment

Subject Name: Jazz Materials 3
Subject Code: 22135
Credit Points: 5
Award(s): Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance
Core / Elective: Core
Pre / co-requisites: Jazz Materials 2
Modes: Full-Time. On campus only.
Delivery / Contact hrs: 2 Hour lecture per week for 13 weeks
Subject Coordinator: Paula Girvan
Teaching Staff: Travis Jenkins

Subject Rationale:
In this subject students develop a working knowledge of jazz theory as it is applied in practice. It fosters awareness and understanding of jazz harmony, melody, rhythm and notation which will serve their needs as performers, composers, arrangers, teachers, and other professions in the jazz.

Learning Outcomes:
In this subject students will develop a clear understanding of, and ability to demonstrate:

1. An insightful conceptual understanding of the musical components and processes learned in this course, and those acquired in earlier subjects in this series
2. An increasing ability to create, interpret, present, analyse and evaluate jazz music
3. An acquired knowledge of harmonic and modal progressions which are relevant also to jazz
4. An advancing capacity to integrate musical knowledge and skills
5. An advancing ability to apply the concepts studied at this level to practice

Assessment:

Subject Name: Improvisation Techniques 3
Subject Code: 23121
Credit Points: 5
Award(s): Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance
Core / Elective: Core
Pre / co-requisites: Improvisation Techniques 2
Modes: Full-time. On campus only.
Delivery / Contact hrs: 2 hours per week for 13 weeks
Subject Coordinator: Paula Girvan
Teaching Staff: Graeme Norris, Dr Rob McWilliams

Subject Rationale
Excellent skills in improvisation are essential to jazz musicians, and therefore form a fundamental component of this course. This subject develops skills and conceptual understanding of improvisation. In the context of this course, Improvisation uses set repertoire and general improvisation concepts which are in common with those in Principal Study, Ensemble, Jazz Materials, Aural & Analysis and Contemporary Performance Practice. In this subject, students will build on the concepts learnt in Improvisation Studies 2. This subject builds a deeper understanding of Western Harmony through a range of approaches to Minor modal harmony and its application to the repertoire for this semester. In this subject is developed use and application of ‘guide tones’, syncopated rhythms and melodic patterns. In the process, they also develop sight reading and sectional skills.

Learning Outcomes:
Through increasingly creative improvisation founded on theory and practice, on successful completion, students will be expected to:

1. Demonstrate an advanced range of melodic, harmonic and rhythmical improvisational techniques, sectional skills and sight reading based on the material in this subject and that accumulated this far
2. Demonstrate an extended vocabulary of melodic material based on that learned in this subject and applied in improvisation through repertoire
3. Reveal internalized advanced melodic, harmonic and rhythmical improvisational techniques developed through critical listening and shaped by theoretical and historical insights into the material
4. Demonstrate fluent and creative improvisation moving through different key centres and chord changes such as are included in this subject

Assessment:

Subject Name: Concert Performance Practice 4
Subject Code: 21110
Credit Points: 3
Award(s): Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance
Core / Elective: Core
Pre / co-requisites: Students who do not pass a semester of this subject will be required to repeat
Modes: Full-time. On campus only.
Delivery / Contact hrs: 2 hour practical class per week for 12 weeks
Subject Coordinator: Paula Girvan
Teaching Staff: Paula Girvan, Ben Hauptmann

Subject Rationale:
Jazz musicians need to perform together with other musicians, and be able to engage in reflective and analytical discourse about their own performance and that of their peers. Concert Performance Practice gives students the opportunity to perform among and with their peers and engage in such discourse. In the context of this course, Concert Performance Practice provides the outlet in which the students’ developing body of knowledge and skills come together in performance and critical analysis. It offers a range of performance practice formats and styles which build the student  s’ experiences from conceptual and practical perspectives. Covering all set lists, it expands student familiarity with repertoire. Both sequenced and layered in experience, the subject has students draw upon their own understanding of jazz style, materials, historical and social contexts, and performance practice to make informed comments on their own work and that of their peers. Engaging with students of different levels of experience expands the breadth of their experience. This subject involves all students from all levels and is a core subject throughout all semesters of study. Thus it exposes all students to all set repertoire lists, although they will only be required to perform from the list appropriate to their level.

Learning Outcomes
Through reflective and analytical discourse about their own performance and that of their peers, their ensemble participation and leadership, improvisation, technique, and presentation, students will develop the knowledge and confidence required to:

1. Engage in critical listening and constructive reflection on performance
2. Expand their understanding of theoretical and stylistic concepts
3. Write constructively in response to the performances of their peers, noting sectional skills and sight reading
4. Enhance their own performance skills through analysis and reflection
5. Lead a performance ensemble
6. Write constructively in response to their own performance

Assessment

Subject Name: Ensemble 4
Subject Code: 21116
Credit Points: 5
Award(s): Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance
Core / Elective: Core
Pre / co-requisites: Ensemble 3
Modes: Full-time, in person. On campus only.
Delivery / Contact hrs: 2 Hours per week for 12 weeks
Subject Coordinator: Paula Girvan
Teaching Staff: All Sessional Staff

Subject Rationale
Professional jazz players need highly developed ensemble skills and experience. Ensemble aptitude is therefore an integral component of the course for all students. In this subject, students experience the dynamics of working in a jazz ensemble and develop skills and understanding appropriate to this setting. In the context of this course, Ensemble brings all the elements together, practical and theoretical. Using the set repertoire which students are learning in Principal Study and developing through Improvisation and Contemporary Performance Practice, it integrates student experience of all set repertoire through a sense of balance, style, timing, tone colour, intonation, interpretation, sectional playing and sight reading, etiquette and ethics relevant to ensemble performance. In this subject students will be placed in one or more small group ensembles and will develop repertoire from the supporting lists as well as other suggestions from students and teachers. All chosen repertoire will be learned, practised and analysed in this subject, using knowledge and skills developed in other subjects of the course. Ensemble classes will refine listening skills, reading skills, and blending within an ensemble. It is recommended that ensembles rehearse regularly outside the formal supervised times. Although there is a focus on small ensembles, students have the opportunity to play in a range of ensembles, including various jazz combos, vocal groups, duos, trios, quartets, quintets and larger contemporary music ensembles depending on the student cohort.

Learning Outcomes:
Through effective integration of the knowledge and skills gained from other subjects in this course, on successful completion of this subject, students will be able to

1. Demonstrate effective sectional skills and group cohesion and communication playing in ensemble, revealing understanding required to play in different tempi, keys and styles; different combinations and contexts
2. Demonstrate advanced sight reading and performance skills in set and selected repertoire, revealing insight into stylistic and interpretative principles, and demonstrating well-informed improvisation through conceptual understanding of theoretical, historical and context of the music.
3. Engage in useful collaborative discussion and constructive peer review of each ensemble’s performance
4. Demonstrate highly efficient rehearsal strategies resulting in confident performances, recovery from mistakes and strong group dynamics
5. Collaborate effectively to develop creative musical arrangements for the ensemble
6. Demonstrate highly reliable intonation, clear articulation and a variety of tonal colour across the ensemble

Assessment

Subject Name: Principal Study 4
Subject Code: 21148
Credit Points: 12
Award(s): Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance
Core / Elective: Core
Pre / co-requisites: Principal Study 3
Modes: In person. On campus only
Delivery / Contact hrs: 1 hour per week for 13 weeks
Subject Coordinator: Dan Quigley
Teaching Staff: Sessional staff

Subject Rationale:
Principal Study 4 develops each student’s technical skill in their discipline, and challenges and extends their artistic understanding and creativity. The study is sequenced according to the needs and abilities of each individual, and the demands of each instrument. In the context of this course, Principal Study prepares the student technically and musically to be able to apply knowledge developed in academic and practical classes and ensembles. Study is undertaken through individual lessons, workshops and masterclasses in the instrument/voice, in which the student’s technical and musical proficiency is assessed and developed and a range of repertoire is explored.

Principal Study uses the repertoire list to foster:

• an advancing technical foundation in the instrument, repertoire and stylistic knowledge,
• the ability to perform required repertoire confidently in public,
• the ability to express and communicate artistic ideas and intentions,
• secure knowledge of repertoire and stylistic understanding
• independence and problem solving,
• self reliance in practice
• depth in critical reflection on personal musical expression
• self motivation and organisation
• management of physical demands, and
• reliability in meeting practical requirements and deadlines

Learning Outcomes:
On successful completion of this subject, students will be able to demonstrate developing understanding and proficiency in all aspects of performance relative to their instrument/voice commensurate with established international benchmarks, in particular:

1. Advanced and secure technical skills
2. The ability to perform required repertoire in public with accuracy and fluency, displaying rhythmic control with an advancing expressive range
3. Advancing ability to express creative ideas using musical language
4. Depth of knowledge of relevant literature and repertoire, scales and chords set to date
5. A deep knowledge of stylistic features of jazz (tone, phrasing, rhythm, feel, etc) relevant to repertoire experienced to date
6. Memorised and prepared 12 standard repertoire tunes, as set for this level.
7. Musical and stylistic sensitivity
8. An advancing ability to improvise creatively using set repertoire, and displaying familiarity with a range of improvisatory language
9. A well developed conceptual understanding of the pieces performed together with an ability to communicate them to the audience with confidence
10. Advanced and independent practice habits

Repertoire list

• I’ll Remember April
• It Could Happen to You
• Just Friends
• Body And Soul
• Ornithology
• Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise
• Have You Met Miss Jones
• Someday My Prince Will Come
• Stella By Starlight
• What Is This Thing Called Love
• Donna Lee – technical piece

Assessment

Subject Name: Aural and Analysis 4
Subject Code: 22104
Credit Points: 5
Award(s): Bachelor of Music Jazz in Jazz performance
Core/Elective: Core
Pre/Co-requisites: Aural and Analysis 3
Modes: Full-Time. On Campus only
Delivery / Contact hours: 2 hr Lecture per week for 12 weeks
Subject Coordinator: Paula Girvan
Teaching Staff: Charlotte Mclean

Subject Rationale
Musicians (and particularly jazz musicians) rely heavily on aural acuity in making appropriate interactions during performance. This subject unites the areas of listening, aural analysis and memory and is therefore critical to overall progress for each student, because it re-establishes the ear as the primary element in the creation and reception of jazz music. In the context of this course, through aural analysis this subject enhances performance through the development of aural memory and awareness, and integrates with other subjects by developing aural recognition of rhythmic, harmonic (diatonic and modal) and melodic elements of set repertoire. Through aural analysis, this subject broadens stylistic knowledge in parallel with Jazz in Context, and the practice-based classes. Aural & Analysis classes develop aural awareness through multi-tasking, combining such skills as listening, aural modelling, conceptual tasking, analysing, performance, sight-singing, memorisation and improvisation in an interactive group.

Learning Outcomes:
Aural and Analysis 4 continues to advance aural awareness through recognition of increasingly complex intervals, intonation, chord quality, and rhythm and chord progressions, including modes, transcriptions and perception of texture/timbre as set for this level.

On successful completion of the subject, students will be able to:

1. Recognise, aurally analyse and accurately reproduce intervals and chords set for this level.
2. Aurally analyse chord quality and progressions set for this level and those which have been set for previous levels
3. Recognise and correctly reproduce increasingly complex rhythmic patterns as set for this level.
4. Aurally analyse timbral and textural detail and variance
5. Perform tasks involving aural cognition and coordination, e.g. identifying and responding to indifferent intonation; accurately transcribing musical elements

Assessment

Subject Name: Jazz Materials 4
Subject Code: 22136
Credit Points: 5
Award(s): Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance
Core / Elective: Core
Pre / co-requisites: Jazz Materials 3
Modes: Full-Time. On campus only.
Delivery / Contact hrs: 2 Hour lecture per week for 12 weeks
Subject Coordinator: Paula Girvan
Teaching Staff: Travis Jenkins

Subject Rationale:
In this subject students develop a working knowledge of jazz theory as it is applied in practice. It fosters awareness and understanding of jazz harmony, melody, rhythm and notation which will serve their needs as performers, composers, arrangers, teachers, and other professions in the jazz.

Learning Outcomes:
In this subject students will develop a clear understanding of, and ability to demonstrate:

1. A clear conceptual understanding of the musical components and processes introduced at this level, including non-tonal and chromatic elements
2. An ability to create and arrange music for jazz ensembles
3. An acquired knowledge of non-tonal and chromatic progressions which are applied in jazz
4. Acquired capacity to integrate musical knowledge and skills

Assessment:

Subject Name: Improvisation Techniques 4
Subject Code: 23122
Credit Points: 5
Award(s): Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance
Core / Elective: Core
Pre / co-requisites: Improvisation Techniques 3
Modes: Full-time. On campus only.
Delivery / Contact hrs: 2 hours per week for 12 weeks
Subject Coordinator: Dan Quigley
Teaching Staff: Graeme Norris, Dr Rob McWilliams

Subject Rationale
Excellent skills in improvisation are essential to jazz musicians, and therefore form a fundamental component of this course. This subject continues to develop skills and conceptual understanding of improvisation. In the context of this course, Improvisation uses set repertoire and general improvisation concepts which are in common with those in Principal Study, Ensemble, Jazz Materials, Aural & Analysis and Contemporary Performance Practice. In this subject, students will build on the concepts learnt in Improvisation Studies 3.  This subject involves the use of extended harmonic ideas over fundamental harmonic progressions, including the use of upper structures, poly-chordal ideas, Pentatonic scales, heavy use and application of ‘guide tones’, syncopated rhythms. . In the process, they also develop sight reading and sectional skills.

Learning Outcomes:
Through increasingly creative improvisation founded on theory and practice, on successful completion, students will be expected to:

1. Demonstrate an advanced knowledge and range of melodic, harmonic and rhythmical improvisational techniques, sectional skills and sight reading
2. Demonstrate an extensive vocabulary of melodic material applied in improvisation through repertoire
3. Reveal a high level of internalization of melodic, harmonic and rhythmic improvisational techniques which have been developed through critical listening and shaped by conceptual understanding of theory in practice
4. Demonstrate fluent improvisation through different key centres and chord changes, applying all of the material introduced in this subject and that which has been accumulated in previous subjects

Assessment:

Subject Name: Concert Performance Practice 5
Subject Code: 31111
Credit Points: 3
Award(s): Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance
Core / Elective: Core
Pre / co-requisites: Students who do not pass a semester of this subject will be required to repeat
Modes: Full-time. On campus only.
Delivery / Contact hrs: 2 hour practical class per week for 12 weeks
Subject Coordinator: Paula Girvan
Teaching Staff: Paula Girvan, Ben Hauptmann

Subject Rationale:
Jazz musicians need to perform together with other musicians, and be able to engage in reflective and analytical discourse about their own performance and that of their peers. Concert Performance Practice gives students the opportunity to perform among and with their peers and engage in such discourse. In the context of this course, Concert Performance Practice provides the outlet in which the students’ developing body of knowledge and skills come together in performance and critical analysis. It offers a range of performance practice formats and styles which build the student  s’ experiences from conceptual and practical perspectives. Covering all set lists, it expands student familiarity with repertoire. Both sequenced and layered in experience, the subject has students draw upon their own understanding of jazz style, materials, historical and social contexts, and performance practice to make informed comments on their own work and that of their peers. Engaging with students of different levels of experience expands the breadth of their experience. This subject involves all students from all levels and is a core subject throughout all semesters of study. Thus it exposes all students to all set repertoire lists, although they will only be required to perform from the list appropriate to their level.

Learning Outcomes
Through reflective and analytical discourse about their own performance and that of their peers, their ensemble participation and leadership, improvisation, technique, and presentation, students will develop the knowledge and confidence required to:

1. Engage in critical listening and constructive reflection on performance
2. Expand their understanding of theoretical and stylistic concepts
3. Write constructively in response to the performances of their peers, noting sectional skills and sight reading
4. Enhance their own performance skills through analysis and reflection
5. Lead a performance ensemble
6. Plan and effectively manage staging required in performance

Assessment

Subject Name: Ensemble 5
Subject Code: 31117
Credit Points: 5
Award(s): Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance
Core / Elective: Core
Pre / co-requisites: Ensemble 4
Modes: Full-time, in person. On campus only.
Delivery / Contact hrs: 2 Hours per week for 12 weeks
Subject Coordinator: Paula Girvan
Teaching Staff: Sessional Staff

Subject Rationale
Professional jazz players need highly developed ensemble skills and experience. Ensemble aptitude is therefore an integral component of the course for all students. In this subject, students experience the dynamics of working in a jazz ensemble and develop skills and understanding appropriate to this setting. In the context of this course, Ensemble brings all the elements together, practical and theoretical. Using the set repertoire which students are learning in Principal Study and developing through Improvisation and Contemporary Performance Practice, it integrates student experience of all set repertoire through a sense of balance, style, timing, tone colour, intonation, interpretation, sectional playing and sight reading, etiquette and ethics relevant to ensemble performance. In this subject students will be placed in one or more small group ensembles and will develop repertoire from the supporting lists as well as other suggestions from students and teachers. All chosen repertoire will be learned, practised and analysed in this subject, using knowledge and skills developed in other subjects of the course. Ensemble classes will refine listening skills, reading skills, and blending within an ensemble. It is recommended that ensembles rehearse regularly outside the formal supervised times. Although there is a focus on small ensembles, students have the opportunity to play in a range of ensembles, including various jazz combos, vocal groups, duos, trios, quartets, quintets and larger contemporary music ensembles depending on the student cohort.

Learning Outcomes:
Through effective integration of the knowledge and skills gained from other subjects in this course, on successful completion of this subject, students will be able to

1. Demonstrate highly developed sectional skills and group cohesion and communication playing in ensemble, revealing understanding required to play group and individual phrasing in different tempi, keys and styles; different combinations and contexts; changing time and feel.
2. Demonstrate advanced sight reading and performance skills in set and selected repertoire, revealing highly developed insight into stylistic and interpretative principles, and demonstrating well-informed improvisation through conceptual understanding of theoretical, historical and contexts of the music.
3. Engage in useful collaborative discussion and constructive peer review of each ensemble’s performance
4. Develop creative arrangements of material in a collaborative setting
5. Demonstrate highly efficient rehearsal strategies resulting in confident performances, recovery from mistakes, strong group dynamics and energy.
6. Demonstrate highly reliable intonation, clear articulation and a variety of tonal colour across the ensemble

Assessment

Subject Name: Principal Study 5
Subject Code: 31149
Credit Points: 12
Award(s): Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance
Core / Elective: Core
Pre / co-requisites: Principal Study 4
Modes: In person. On campus only
Delivery / Contact hrs: 1 hour per week for 12 weeks
Subject Coordinator: Paula Girvan
Teaching Staff: Sessional staff

Subject Rationale:
Principal Study 5 develops each student’s technical skill in their discipline, and challenges and extends their artistic understanding and creativity. The study is sequenced according to the needs and abilities of each individual, and the demands of each instrument. In the context of this course, Principal Study prepares the student technically and musically to be able to apply knowledge developed in academic and practical classes and ensembles. Study is undertaken through individual lessons, workshops and masterclasses in the instrument/voice, in which the student’s technical and musical proficiency is assessed and developed and a range of repertoire is explored.

Principal Study uses the repertoire list to foster:

• An increasingly advanced technical facility in the instrument
• the ability to perform required repertoire confidently in public,
• the ability to express and communicate artistic ideas and intentions,
• the development of a personal voice with respect to creativity and style
• independence and problem solving,
• highly insightful reflection on personal musical expression
• a high level of self motivation and organisation
• management of physical demands, and reliability in meeting practical requirements and deadlines

Learning Outcomes:
On successful completion of this subject, students will be able to demonstrate developing understanding and proficiency in all aspects of performance relative to their instrument/voice commensurate with established international benchmarks, in particular:

1. A highly advanced and secure technique based on intensive scale work
2. The ability to perform with confidence in public, playing with accuracy and fluency, rhythmic control and advanced levels of musical expression
3. Highly advanced level of ability to express creative ideas using musical language
4. An extended knowledge of relevant literature and repertoire, scales and chords
5. A deep conceptual understanding of and ability to realise stylistic features of jazz (tone, phrasing, rhythm, feel, etc)
6. Memorised and prepared 12 standard repertoire tunes, as set for this level, and maintain repertoire from previous level
7. A highly developed conceptual understanding of the pieces performed together with an ability to communicate them to the audience with great confidence
8. A highly developed ability to improvise creatively, displaying a wide range of improvisatory language
9. Advanced, independent and reliable practice habits

Repertoire list
You Stepped Out Of A Dream
I Remember You
It’s You Or No One
Nica’s Dream
Cherokee
I’ve Never Been In Love Before
**Darn That Dream/Someone To Watch Over Me
**Chi Chi/Au Privave
** Eternal Triangle
Assessment

Subject Name: Business Studies 1
Subject Code: 32105
Credit Points: 5
Award(s): Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance
Core / Elective: Core
Pre / co-requisites: Jazz Materials 4, Aural and Analysis 4
Modes: Full Time. On Campus only.
Delivery / Contact hrs: 2 hour lecture per week for 12 weeks
Subject Coordinator: Paula Girvan
Teaching Staff: Andrew Shaw

Subject Rationale:
Professional musicians need a basic understanding of the principles of small business management, including financial, legal and administrative functions oriented to the music industry. In the context of this course, this subject is not integrated with the musical components, but plays an important role in preparing the professional musician for work in any of the music industries. In this subject, students learn the business and administrative skills necessary for a sustainable career. It will introduce principles of marketing the individual, the band  and the musical product.

Learning Outcomes:
In this subject, students build a body of knowledge which assists them to understand and apply issues related to taxation, salaries and contractual employment. They will also develop an understanding of marketing and basic promotional skills.

On successful completion of this subject, students will be able to

1. Understand and apply business and administrative skills studied in the subject
2. Understand and interrogate contractual documents and their implications
3. Reveal clear understanding of taxation systems; analyse and interrogate financial records and processes
4. Creatively develop and apply promotional materials, including media releases, marketing fliers, web promotions and hardcopy advertisements

Assessment:

Subject Name: Improvisation Techniques 5
Subject Code: 33123
Credit Points: 5
Award(s): Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance
Core / Elective: Core
Pre / co-requisites: Improvisation Techniques 4
Modes: Full-time. On campus only.
Delivery / Contact hrs: 2 hours per week for 12 weeks
Subject Coordinator: Paula Girvan
Teaching Staff: Josh Hatcher, Graeme Norris

Subject Rationale
Excellent skills in improvisation are essential to jazz musicians, and therefore form a fundamental component of this course. This subject develops skills and conceptual understanding of improvisation. In the context of this course, Improvisation uses set repertoire and general improvisation concepts which are in common with those in Principal Study, Ensemble, Jazz Materials, Aural & Analysis and Contemporary Performance Practice. In this subject, students will build on the concepts learnt in Improvisation Studies 4.  In this subject students build advanced improvisation skills and understanding, studying chromatic and intervallic harmonies to create more complex musical permutations in their improvisations. . In the process, they also develop sight reading and sectional skills.

Learning Outcomes:
Through increasingly creative improvisation founded on theory and practice, on successful completion, students will be expected to:

1. Demonstrate a highly developed range of melodic, harmonic and rhythmic improvisational techniques, sectional skills and sight reading, applying them to chromatic and intervallic improvisation
2. Demonstrate an extensive and varied vocabulary of melodic material applied in improvisation through repertoire
3. Reveal an advanced internalization of melodic, harmonic and rhythmic improvisational techniques which have been developed through critical listening and shaped by conceptual understanding of the music
4. Demonstrate highly creative and fluent improvisations through different key centres and chord changes, including the chromatic and intervallic approaches.

Assessment:

Subject Name: Concert Performance Practice 6
Subject Code: 31112
Credit Points: 3
Award(s): Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance
Core / Elective: Core
Pre / co-requisites: Students who do not pass a semester of this subject will be required to repeat
Modes: Full-time. On campus only.
Delivery / Contact hrs: 2 hour practical class per week for 12 weeks
Subject Coordinator: Paula Girvan
Teaching Staff: Paula Girvan, Ben Hauptmann

Subject Rationale:
Jazz musicians need to perform together with other musicians, and be able to engage in reflective and analytical discourse about their own performance and that of their peers. Concert Performance Practice gives students the opportunity to perform among and with their peers and engage in such discourse. In the context of this course, Concert Performance Practice provides the outlet in which the students’ developing body of knowledge and skills come together in performance and critical analysis. It offers a range of performance practice formats and styles which build the student  s’ experiences from conceptual and practical perspectives. Covering all set lists, it expands student familiarity with repertoire. Both sequenced and layered in experience, the subject has students draw upon their own understanding of jazz style, materials, historical and social contexts, and performance practice to make informed comments on their own work and that of their peers. Engaging with students of different levels of experience expands the breadth of their experience. This subject involves all students from all levels and is a core subject throughout all semesters of study. Thus it exposes all students to all set repertoire lists, although they will only be required to perform from the list appropriate to their level.

Learning Outcomes
Through reflective and analytical discourse about their own performance and that of their peers, their ensemble participation and leadership, improvisation, technique, and presentation, students will develop the knowledge and confidence required to:

1. Engage in critical listening and constructive reflection on performance
2. Expand their understanding of theoretical and stylistic concepts
3. Write constructively in response to the performances of their peers, noting sectional skills and sight reading
4. Enhance their own performance skills through analysis and reflection
5. Lead a performance ensemble
6. Plan and effectively manage staging required in performance

Assessment

Subject Name: Ensemble 6
Subject Code: 31118
Credit Points: 5
Award(s): Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance
Core / Elective: Core
Pre / co-requisites: Ensemble 5
Modes: Full-time, in person. On campus only.
Delivery / Contact hrs: 2 Hours per week for 12 weeks
Subject Coordinator: Paula Girvan
Teaching Staff: Sessional Staff

Subject Rationale
Professional jazz players need highly developed ensemble skills and experience. Ensemble aptitude is therefore an integral component of the course for all students. In this subject, students experience the dynamics of working in a jazz ensemble and develop skills and understanding appropriate to this setting. In the context of this course, Ensemble brings all the elements together, practical and theoretical. Using the set repertoire which students are learning in Principal Study and developing through Improvisation and Contemporary Performance Practice, it integrates student experience of all set repertoire through a sense of balance, style, timing, tone colour, intonation, interpretation, sectional playing and sight reading, etiquette and ethics relevant to ensemble performance. In this subject students will be placed in one or more small group ensembles and will develop repertoire from the supporting lists as well as other suggestions from students and teachers. All chosen repertoire will be learned, practised and analysed in this subject, using knowledge and skills developed in other subjects of the course. Ensemble classes will refine listening skills, reading skills, and blending within an ensemble. It is recommended that ensembles rehearse regularly outside the formal supervised times. Although there is a focus on small ensembles, students have the opportunity to play in a range of ensembles, including various jazz combos, vocal groups, duos, trios, quartets, quintets and larger contemporary music ensembles depending on the student cohort.

Learning Outcomes:
Through effective integration of the knowledge and skills gained from other subjects in this course, on successful completion of this subject, students will be able to

1. Demonstrate highly developed sectional skills and group cohesion and communication playing in ensemble, revealing the high level of understanding required to effectively perform group and individual phrasing in different tempi, keys and styles; different combinations and contexts; changing time and feel.
2. Demonstrate advanced sight reading and performance skills in set and selected repertoire, revealing highly developed insight into stylistic and interpretative principles, and demonstrating well-informed improvisation through conceptual understanding of theoretical, historical and contexts of the music.
3. Engage in useful collaborative discussion and constructive peer review of each ensemble’s performance
4. Develop creative arrangements of material in a collaborative setting, showing a high level of integration of all aspects of music
5. Demonstrate highly efficient rehearsal strategies resulting in confident performances of professional standard, with seamless recovery from mistakes, strong group dynamics and high level of energy.
6. Demonstrate highly reliable intonation, clear articulation and a variety of tonal colour across the ensemble

Weekly Topics           

• Define musical direction of ensemble,
• Organise repertoire from supporting repertoire list,
• Organise arrangements,
• Implement repertoire,
• Implement arrangements,
• Rehearse repertoire,
• Rehearse arrangements,
• Critical listening for arrangement ideas,
• Rehearsal for performance

Assessment

Subject Name: Principal Study 6
Subject Code: 31150
Credit Points: 12
Award(s): Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance
Core / Elective: Core
Pre / co-requisites: Principal Study 5
Modes: In person. On campus only
Delivery / Contact hrs: 1 hour per week for 12 weeks
Subject Coordinator: Paula Girvan
Teaching Staff: Sessional staff

Subject Rationale
Principal Study 6 develops each student’s technical skill in their discipline, and challenges and extends their artistic understanding and creativity. The study is sequenced according to the needs and abilities of each individual, and the demands of each instrument. In the context of this course, Principal Study prepares the student technically and musically to be able to apply knowledge developed in academic and practical classes and ensembles. Study is undertaken through individual lessons, workshops and masterclasses in the instrument/voice, in which the student’s technical and musical proficiency is assessed and developed and a range of repertoire is explored.

Principal Study uses the repertoire list to foster:

• a thorough and advanced technical facility in the instrument,
• the ability to perform in public with confidence at a professional level,
• the ability to express and communicate complex artistic ideas and intentions,
• the development of a personal voice with respect to creativity and style
• independence and problem solving,
• a highly insightful degree of critical reflection on personal musical expression
• a high level of self motivation and organisation
• management of physical demands, and
• reliability in meeting practical requirements and deadlines

Learning Outcomes:

On successful completion of this subject, students will be able to demonstrate developing understanding and proficiency in all aspects of performance relative to their instrument/voice commensurate with established international benchmarks, in particular:

1. A highly developed and secure technique based on intensive scale work
2. The ability to perform with confidence and security in public; playing with accuracy and fluency, rhythmic control and advanced levels of musical expression
3. Highly developed ability to express creative ideas using musical language
4. A deep knowledge and conceptual understanding of relevant literature and repertoire, scales and chords
5. An advanced conceptual understanding of and ability to realise stylistic features of jazz (tone, phrasing, rhythm, feel, etc)
6. Memorised and prepared to an acceptable professional standard 12 standard repertoire tunes set for this level; and maintain repertoire from two previous levels
7. Demonstrate an advanced insight into musical and stylistic sensitivity
8. An advanced ability to improvise creatively, displaying a wide range of improvisatory language and styles
9. Advanced, independent and reliable practice habits

Weekly Topics      

1. Teacher and student liaise about short and long term goals
2. Define technical aspects needed to improve
3. Detail practice plan to include technical and repertoire
4. Work on specific techniques aligned with principal study
5. Develop technique and repertoire
6. Develop technique and repertoire
7. Develop technique and repertoire
8. Develop technique and repertoire
9. Develop technique and repertoire
10. Develop technique and repertoire
11. Develop technique and repertoire
12. TECHNICAL EXAM
13. Develop technique and repertoire

Repertoire list:
Donna Lee
Speak Low
Airegin
Moment’s Notice
Triste
The Song Is You
**Prelude To A Kiss/Autumn In New York
**Confirmation/Relaxin’ At Camarillo
** Ray’s Idea
Assessment:

A graded result reflects the level of achievement in technical assessments and recitals. During the semester, each student receives regular critical feedback and formative evaluation by staff in individual and group contexts. The following assessment requirements may vary according to the nature of the instrument. Detailed guidelines setting out specific requirements and assessment criteria for each discipline will be provided to the student.

Subject Name: Business Studies 2
Subject Code: 32106
Credit Points: 5
Award(s): Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance
Core / Elective: Core
Pre / co-requisites: Business Studies 1
Modes: Full Time. On Campus only.
Delivery / Contact hrs: 2 hour lecture per week for 12 weeks
Subject Coordinator: Paula Girvan
Teaching Staff: Andrew Shaw

Subject Rationale
Professional musicians need a clear understanding of the principles of small business management, including financial, legal and administrative functions oriented to the music industry. In the context of this course, this subject is not integrated with the musical components, but plays an important role in preparing the professional musician for survival as an independent contractor in the music industry. This subject is relevant to the professional musician’s ability to engage in contractual arrangements, legally copy and publish musical product, and access a range of funding options.

Learning Outcomes:
This subject provides an overview of legal and contractual issues and copyright laws relevant to musicians. Students will develop knowledge which supports awareness of accessible funding pathways, and build knowledge and understanding of the approach, strategies, language and evidence which support successful funding applications.

On successful completion of the subject, students will be able to:

1. Demonstrate a clear conceptual understanding of copyright laws which are related to the various forms of publication and copying of musical product
2. Demonstrate reasonable knowledge of the arts sector and how to access potential funding organisations in QLD
3. Show a credible approach to engaging in the process of applying for funding for a specific project

Weekly Topics

1. Course overview and student expectations. Student project requirements
2. Understanding copyright laws – performing rights
3. Understanding copyright laws – mechanical rights
4. Understanding copyright laws – publishing Rights
5. Developing awareness of available funding bodies for  a variety of projects
6. Developing marketing materials – about the performer
7. Developing marketing materials – visual and website
8. Developing marketing materials – audio materials
9. Approaching the grant submission process.
10. How to write a grant application
11. Non profit organisations: their relationship to and role in the Music Industry
12. Review of weeks 2,3,4
13. Review of weeks 8,9,10

Assessment:

Subject Name: Improvisation Techniques 6
Subject Code: 33124
Credit Points: 5
Award(s): Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance
Core / Elective: Core
Pre / co-requisites: Improvisation Techniques 5
Modes: Full-time. On campus only.
Delivery / Contact hrs: 2 hours per week for 12 weeks
Subject Coordinator: Paula Girvan
Teaching Staff: Graeme Norris, Josh Hatcher

Subject Rationale
Excellent skills in improvisation are essential to jazz musicians, and therefore form a fundamental component of this course. This subject develops skills and conceptual understanding of improvisation. In the context of this course, Improvisation uses set repertoire and general improvisation concepts which are in common with those in Principal Study, Ensemble, Jazz Materials, Aural & Analysis and Contemporary Performance Practice. In this subject, students build on the concepts learnt in Improvisation Studies 5.  This subject develops advanced understanding and skills of improvisation, through playing free of harmonic constraints by using advanced chromatic and intervallic harmonies coloured by different timbral option for instruments. In the process, they also develop sight reading and sectional skills.

Learning Outcomes:
Through increasingly creative improvisation founded on theory and practice, on successful completion, students will be expected to:

1. Demonstrate a highly developed range of melodic, harmonic and rhythmical improvisational techniques, sectional skills and sight reading, founded on a clear conceptual understanding of the theoretical and contextual principles
2. Demonstrate mastery over an extensive vocabulary of melodic material, including chromatic material, applied in improvisation through repertoire
3. Reveal a highly advanced internalizing of melodic, harmonic and rhythmic improvisational techniques clearly shaped by critical listening and a deeply founded conceptual understanding of the musical material
4. Demonstrate highly creative and fluent improvisation, moving through different key centres and chord changes including chromatics and intervallic approaches, and applying a wide range of timbral effects

Weekly Topics

1. Course outline and objectives. Learn and play melodies and chord progressions through core repertoire.
2. Play through chord progressions using arpeggio inversions. Improvise through tune embellishing the melody. Listen to recorded examples of repertoire.
3. Play through chord progressions using chord extensions (7,9,11,13). Play and improvise through selected core repertoire. Listen to recorded examples of repertoire. Use guide tone theory as target notes.
4. Listen to selected repertoire. Play through selected repertoire focusing on incorporating guide tone target notes and chord extensions.
5. ASSESSMENT See Assessment Item 1
6. Listen to selected repertoire. Play through selected repertoire focusing on incorporating guide tone target notes and chord extensions.
7. Listen to selected repertoire. Play through selected repertoire using a melodic pattern (cell). Play through selected repertoire focusing on building a solo using simple motifs.
8. Listen to selected repertoire. Play through selected repertoire using extension guide tone target notes.
9. Play through selected repertoire chord progressions in multiple keys.
10. ASSESSMENT See Assessment Item 1
11. Play through chord progressions using arpeggio inversions. Improvise through tune embellishing the melody. Listen to recorded examples of repertoire.
12. Play through chord progressions using chord extensions (7,9,11,13). Play and improvise through selected core repertoire. Listen to recorded examples of repertoire. Use guide tone theory as target notes.
13. Improvising over core repertoire songs in various keys using all improvisation techniques learnt. Guide tone melodies over repertoire songs

Assessment:

Subject Name: Stagecraft
Subject Code: 22232
Credit Points: 5 credit points
Award(s): Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance
Core / Elective: Elective
Pre / co-requisites: Nil
Modes: In person. On campus only
Delivery / Contact hrs: 24 hours over 12 weeks
Subject Coordinator: Paula Girvan
Teaching Staff: N/A

Subject Rationale:
As performers, jazz musicians need to understand how to perform on stage in a confident, relaxed and engaging manner. An understanding of stagecraft will assist the musician in both live assessment and live performance contexts. Confident presentation enhances instrumental/vocal performance through improving freedom of expression, control of internal and external barriers, interpersonal connections with other ensemble members, mental clarity and emotional stability. In the context of this course, this subject enhances their capacity for success in Principal Study, Ensemble, Improvisation, and Concert Performance Practice. The subject is broken into two main areas: stagecraft for assessment and stagecraft for live performance. This subject sequentially improves the musician’s awareness of musical and non-musical aspects of performance. It develops skills which enable the student to overcome performance anxiety, improve presentation of performance and manage group dynamics. It includes the experience of addressing an audience, developing an understanding of the power of body language, appropriate stagecraft protocols specific to jazz and attitudes towards performance.

Learning Outcomes:
Through physical and mental concepts and activities, research and a developing understanding of stagecraft in both assessment and live performance contexts, the student will be able to demonstrate:

PHYSICAL

1. An awareness of potential misuse of the body, and application of appropriate avoidance techniques
2. Performances which are self-assured and physically flexible, revealing an understanding of appropriate application of muscular force

EXTERNAL

1. Confidence in performance presentation, with articulate oral skills
2. Broad knowledge of repertoire and how to use information to enhance presentation
3. Understanding of group dynamics and successful group interaction

INTERNAL

1. Identify internal blocks to issues surrounding performance, practise and engagement in successful musical presentation
2. Understanding of the psychology of music performance anxiety

Weekly Topics

1. Why are we here? Student expectations and subject review. Overview of Physical/Internal/External factors in musical performance
2. Topic: Keys to successful practise techniques
3. Topic: The psychology of music performance anxiety 1
4. Topic: The psychology of music performance anxiety 2
5. Masterclass: – Stagecraft for musical performance assessment – Public speaking
6. Topic: Protocols for live jazz performance
7. Topic: Best practise jazz performances
8. Masterclass: – Stagecraft for live performance – Banter, patter and awkward pauses
9. Topic: Creating performance – concert performance planning
10. Topic: Individual personalities and group dynamics (enneagram, Myers-Briggs)
11. Topic: Understanding repertoire
12. Masterclass: – Concert performance practise
13. Topic: Relaxation and focus techniques

Assessment:

Subject Name: Investigating Jazz
Subject Code: 22229
Credit Points: 5
Award(s): Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance
Core / Elective: Elective
Pre / co-requisites: Nil
Modes: Full Time. On campus only
Delivery / Contact hrs: 2 Hour class per week for 12 weeks
Subject Coordinator: Paula Girvan
Teaching Staff: N/A

Subject Rationale:
Research develops the knowledge base for the jazz musician, and builds their conceptual understanding of elements which contribute to and affect their performance and ability to operate as an informed and critically engaged musician. In the context of this course, this elective is not integrated directly with the other subjects, but contributes to the student’s conceptual understanding of jazz. In this elective, students will learn basic skills of research which will assist them in their preparation for Jazz in Context, Jazz Materials, and in researching repertoire for their various performance-based subjects. This subject introduces students to the study and practice of musical scholarship, through historical discipline and contemporary, dynamic activity related to jazz. It will pay particular attention to the creation, performance and collection/retention of jazz music, the related activities of artists, and the social and cultural dimensions of jazz. This subject enables the student to deeply investigate an artist, a particular historical event, a specific technique or any other topic available for in depth research.

Learning Outcomes:
Through lively and informed class participation, the preparation and delivery of research topics and other presentations, critical reading and listening, and other means, class participants will learn to demonstrate:

1. A general knowledge of music research as it applies to jazz
2. A conceptual understanding of the research process as it applies to jazz
3. Articulate oral presentations about a variety of topics dealing with jazz
4. Coherent written skills about selected topics which interrogate the student’s conceptual understanding of jazz in its social and historical contexts

Weekly Topics

1. Investigating jazz – the research process
2. Investigating jazz – the research process
3. Concepts of critical thinking
4. Developing critical thinking skills
5. Developing critical thinking skills
6. Jazz in context
7. Jazz in historical settings
8. Presenting your research
9. ASSESSMENT
10. Jazz in contemporary settings
11. Student presentations
12. Student presentations
13. Student presentations

Assessment:

Subject Name: Jazz in Australia
Subject Code: 22230
Credit Points: 5
Award(s): Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance
Core / Elective: Elective
Pre / co-requisites: Nil
Modes: Full Time. On campus only
Delivery / Contact hrs: 2 hour lecture per week for 12 weeks.
Subject Coordinator: Paula Girvan
Teaching Staff:  N/A

Subject Rationale:
An understanding of jazz in its Australian contexts is of considerable relevance to intending professional jazz musicians in this country. In the context of this course, Jazz in Australia does not integrate directly with other subjects, but does contribute significantly to the depth of understanding students bring to the performance of Australian work. This subject therefore connects with Principal Study, Ensemble, Improvisation and Contemporary Performance Practice. This subject builds context around key composers, performers, compositions and musical forms in Australian jazz, and sets the music into a broader context of the professional jazz industry in Australia. By focusing on specific case studies, students will research the work of individual artists in their historical and social settings through reading, critical listening and discussion, to gain an understanding of Australian jazz and the contexts in which it is created an played.

Learning Outcomes:
Through consideration and evaluation of past and present practice from musical and extraneous perspectives, students will build a foundation from which they are able to:

1. Reveal a thorough understanding of the developments in Australian jazz in a broad historical and social context
2. Demonstrate an advanced ability to aurally analyse and place Australian artists and their work within a broader world perspective
3. Use coherent written language to reveal developing skills in information literacy, research, critical analysis and documentation
4. Demonstrate advanced skills of critical listening through correctly identifying different jazz styles and artists from Australia

Weekly Topics:

1. Jazz in Australia: where does it begin and how does it get to here?
2. The Australian Jazz Archive: searching the depths
3. The artists: Don Burrows, George Golla et al
4. ASSESSMENT – Listening Exam
5. The venues and organisations: how they impact on the music
6. The orchestra experiment: Paul Grabowsky
7. The artists: The Catholics: Sandy Evans, Lloyd Swanton
8. ASSESSMENT – Class Presentation
9. The festivals: where and why they are, how they work
10. The artists: Dale Barlow, Judy Bailey
11. The composers: Jazz Composers and other composers who use jazz
12. The new ones: emerging artists
13. The new ones: concepts and futures

Assessment:

Subject Name: A Capella Ear Training 1
Subject Code: 23229
Credit Points: 5
Award(s): Bachelor of Music in  Jazz Performance
Core / Elective: Elective
Pre / co-requisites: Nil
Modes: In person. On campus only
Delivery / Contact hrs: 2 Hour class per week for 12 weeks
Subject Coordinator: Paula Girvan
Teaching Staff: Charlotte Mclean

Subject Rationale:
As performers, jazz musicians need skills which allow them to present themselves in a confident manner, enabling the best opportunity for a positive experience. This subject focuses on the development of aural acuity in the context of presentation (i.e. beyond the classroom), through which confidence and presentation skills will be improved. Aural acuity is an essential skill for the jazz musician. Musicians certain of their aural capacity bring confidence to their performances. The most direct way of expressing an understanding involving pitch is by singing. The practice of singing without accompaniment promotes a high level of relative pitch, a desirable skill for jazz musicians. In an applied setting, this subject sequentially improves the musician’s awareness of musical aspects of performance, particularly via aural acuity. It develops skills which enable the student to overcome performance anxiety and improve presentation of performance, including the experience of addressing an audience.

Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this subject students will be able to demonstrate:

1. An ability to demonstrate vocally the formation of chords
2. An ability to harmonize melodies in a logical way
3. A secure aural acuity in performance in a vocal ensemble
4. A secure sense of tonality, individually and as part of a group
5. Confidence in performance and presentation individually and as part of a group

Weekly Topics

1. Chords from major scale, drills
2. Simple progression chord voicing
3. Parallel harmony, cadences, rehearse repertoire
4. Major Pentatonic scale & practical use
5. Passing chords, rehearse repertoire
6. Chord progression work, rehearse repertoire
7. Blues harmony, rehearse repertoire
8. Melody singing & analysis, rehearse repertoire
9. Inversion focus, rehearse repertoire
10. Slash chords, rehearse repertoire
11. Review melody and skills, rehearse repertoire
12. Review, rehearse repertoire
13. Review for assessment

Assessment:

Subject Name: Jazz Arranging 1
Subject Code: 23225
Credit Points: 5
Award(s): Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance
Core / Elective: Elective
Pre / co-requisites: Nil
Modes: Full Time. On campus only
Delivery / Contact hrs: 2 Hour class per week for 12 weeks
Subject Coordinator: Brad Esbensen
Teaching Staff: Brad Esbensen

Subject Rationale
Jazz musicians benefit from the ability to create and arrange their own music, and this elective further develops the foundational arranging skills which are built into the core subjects of this course. In the context of this course, this elective is not integrated directly with the other subjects, but does complement them. Students enrolled in this elective will draw upon their experiences in practical and theory based subjects, and in turn, will be able to contribute to such subjects as Contemporary Performance Practice and Ensemble by creating arrangements for them. Students who enrol in this elective will find that it enhances their capacity to complete the arrangement tasks required of them in Ensemble and Jazz Materials. This subject examines various jazz arrangement techniques for small group jazz writing. Students will learn through applying arrangement skills, and through listening, analysis and reading.

Learning Outcomes:
Through the processes of aural and written analysis, building a broad knowledge of styles, arranging for specific jazz ensembles, and hearing the arrangements performed, students will be able to demonstrate:

1. A conceptual understanding of musical components and processes appropriate to various styles of jazz applied to small ensembles
2. The ability to create, interpret, present, evaluate and analyse musical material
3. A secure acquired knowledge of instrumental and vocal ranges and the timbral capacities of all jazz instruments
4. An applied understanding of historical style and associated treatment of melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic material
5. The ability to creatively arrange work for performance by small ensembles

Weekly Topics

1. Copyright and Business Ethics, Score Preparation, Instrument Ranges and Transpositions, Elements of an Arrangement
2. Writing a head arrangement for 1-2 instruments: Melodic Manipulation
3. Writing a head arrangement for 1-2 instruments: Unison Writing Techniques
4. ASSESSMENT DUE: Class time for feedback and finishing off task
5. Rhythm Section: notation and scoring
6. Piano voicings and Bass lines
7. Rhythm Section arrangement: Discussion of styles and techniques
8. ASSESSMENT DUE: Class time for feedback and finishing off task
9. Two part writing techniques
10. Three part writing techniques
11. Overall structure of a completed arrangement: form, intro, endings, shout, solos
12. Review
13. ASSESSMENT DUE: Class time for feedback and finishing off task

Assessment

Subject Name: Jazz Composition 1
Subject Code: 23227
Credit Points: 5
Award(s): Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance
Core / Elective: Elective
Pre / co-requisites: Nil
Modes: Full Time. On campus only
Delivery / Contact hrs: 2 Hour class per week for 12 weeks
Subject Coordinator: Paula Girvan
Teaching Staff: Travis Jenkins

Subject Rationale:
Jazz Composition introduces the student to a variety of writing techniques and approaches to creativity in a variety of styles and ensemble settings. It deepens the student’s understanding of the elements of notation, structure, orchestration and style in the creative writing process, through practical and theoretical perspectives. In the context of this course, this elective does not integrate directly with the other subjects, but contributes to the student’s conceptual understanding of jazz. In this elective, students will become familiar with the creative compositional process and this will enhance the student’s experience of Jazz Materials. Student compositions may be performed in the practice-based subjects, and in public performances by students. This subject will foster an understanding of specifics of notation, structure and invention; an understanding of principles of timbre, sonority and scoring in different combinations. There is a particular emphasis on writing for the small jazz ensemble.

Learning Outcomes:
Through practical and theoretical approaches, aural and written study, students will develop the ability to:

1. Present works publicly at a level appropriate to the individual student
2. Successfully complete an original composition from concept to performance
3. Demonstrate an understanding of notation and structure through the written presentation of their work
4. Articulate the creative process through critical reflection and analysis of the experience

Weekly Topics:

1. Course overview. Understanding contemporary jazz styles; Blues
2. Jazz forms: Blues
3. Jazz forms: 32 Bar Standards
4. Jazz forms: 32 Bar Standards
5. Jazz forms: Modal
6. Jazz forms: Modal
7. Jazz forms: Latin
8. Jazz forms: Latin
9. Jazz forms: Odd Meter
10. Jazz forms: Odd Meter
11. Analysing the experience and process
12. Performance of 2 compositions

Assessment 

Subject Name: Music Technology 1: Fundamentals of Sound Recording
Subject Code: 32237
Credit Points: 5
Award(s): Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance
Core / Elective: Elective
Pre / co-requisites: None
Modes: Full Time. On Campus only
Delivery / Contact hrs: 2 Hour Seminar per week for 12 weeks
Subject Coordinator: Paula Girvan
Teaching Staff: Mark Smith

Subject Rationale:
The professional jazz musician often encounters the recording industry and benefits from an understanding of the key technical and creative components of the technology used in recording, and the etiquette of the audio recording industry. In the context of this course, the subject is not directly integrated with the core subjects, although it will apply skills learned in other subjects. It is an ancillary subject designed to extend the experience of all other subjects by providing an overview of contemporary sound recording both inside and outside the studio. The subject explores the elements of sound recording with an emphasis on musical context, recording environment and supportive technologies. It aims to provide an understanding of the theory involved in sound and recording practice, skills in the use of hardware and software, and confidence in problem-solving. It will foster awareness and understanding of music genres and recording venues.

Learning Outcomes:
On successful completion of this subject, students will be able to demonstrate:

1. The ability to apply current music technologies to record live and concert contexts
2. A clear conceptual understanding of the theoretical applications involved in session planning and coordination, and complex practical applications
3. The ability to apply critical listening and evaluation skills as appropriate in the production of audio recordings
4. The ability to apply critical thinking and problem-solving skills in the production context

Weekly Topics

1. Course overview and objectives. Basics of sound and acoustics. Microphones: Types and placement. Stage set up for recording. Stage set up for live sound. Live sound fundamentals.
2. Software fundamentals for recording. Listening examples.
3. Software fundamentals for recording. Listening examples.
4. Recording project: Recording and mixing trouble shooting. Rostered students record or bring in a recording for mixing. Worksheet 1 Due.
5. Recording project: Recording and mixing trouble shooting. Rostered students record or bring in a recording for mixing. Worksheet 1 Due.
6. Recording project: Recording and mixing trouble shooting. Rostered students record or bring in a recording for mixing.
7. Recording project: Recording and mixing trouble shooting. Rostered students record or bring in a recording for mixing. Worksheet 1 Due.
8. Recording project: Recording and mixing trouble shooting. Rostered students record or bring in a recording for mixing.
9. Recording project: Recording and mixing trouble shooting. Rostered students record or bring in a recording for mixing.
10. Recording project: Recording and mixing trouble shooting. Rostered students record or bring in a recording for mixing. Worksheet 1 Due.
11. Worksheet 3 Due. Reflection of recording process.
12. REVIEW
13. WRITTEN ASSESSMENT

Assessment:

Subject Name: Music Technology 2 : The Virtual Studio
Subject Code: 32238
Credit Points: 5
Award(s): Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance
Core / Elective: Elective
Pre / co-requisites: None
Modes: Full Time. On Campus only
Delivery / Contact hrs: 2 Hour Seminar per week for 12 weeks
Subject Coordinator: Paula Girvan
Teaching Staff: N/A

Subject Rationale:
The professional jazz musician finds benefit in familiarity with contemporary music software and technology suited to their self-publishing needs, in score and audio. In the context of this course, the subject is not directly integrated with the core subjects, although it will apply skills learned in other subjects, e.g. skills learned in Jazz Materials will be applied in writing scores. It is an ancillary subject designed to extend the experience of all other subjects by providing an overview of the contemporary computer-based virtual studio.

Learning Outcomes:
On successful completion of this subject, students will be expected to demonstrate

1. A basic knowledge of virtual studio software concepts and operations
2. A clear understanding of and ability to achieve specific tasks in selected software programs.
3. A basic knowledge of and ability to apply publishing software for arranging and composition
4. A conceptual understanding of music technology as it is applied in the music industry
5. A clear understanding of podcasting/RSS as it is applied in distribution strategies

Weekly Topics

1. New File Wizard. Instruments, Style, clefs, time signature, Beams and Rest Groups, key signatures. Adding and deleting bars, controlling bars-per-line, entering  notes and rests.
2. Preferences. Playback window. Ties, tuplets, slurs, repeats and double bar lines.
3. Understanding House Styles, editing elements versus editing Style. Text and chord symbols.
4. Accidentals, articulations, noteheads, metronome marks, dynamics, segnos, lines and symbols.
5. Hiding things, hiding empty staves. Layout Menu.
6. Refining Project 1.
7. Lyrics. Polyphony.
8. Styles in more detail. Headers. Stave and note spacing adjustments.
9. Selection filtering and Advanced Filter.
10. Refining Project 2.
11. Publishing
12. Publishing
13. REVIEW

Assessment:

Subject Name: A Capella Ear Training 2
Subject Code: 32241
Credit Points: 5
Award(s): Bachelor of Music in  Jazz Performance
Core / Elective: Elective
Pre / co-requisites: Nil
Modes: In person. On campus only
Delivery / Contact hrs: 2 Hour Masterclass per week for 12 weeks
Subject Coordinator: Paula Girvan
Teaching Staff: Charlotte Mclean

Subject Rationale:
As performers, jazz musicians need skills which allow them to present themselves in a confident manner, enabling the best opportunity for a positive experience. This subject focuses on the development of aural acuity in the context of presentation (i.e. beyond the classroom), through which confidence and presentation skills will be improved.

Aural acuity is an essential skill for the jazz musician. Musicians certain of their aural capacity bring confidence to their performances. The most direct way of expressing an understanding involving pitch is by singing. The practice of singing without accompaniment promotes a high level of relative pitch, a desirable skill for jazz musicians. In an applied setting, this subject sequentially improves the musician’s awareness of musical aspects of performance, particularly via aural acuity.

Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this subject students will be able to demonstrate:

1. Accurately demonstrate the formation of chords and a detailed understanding of jazz chord voicings vocally.
2. Demonstrate an ability to harmonise melodies in a logical way using guide tone
   and voice leading skills.
3. Demonstrate a secure aural acuity in performance in a vocal ensemble.
4. Demonstrate a secure sense of tonality and intonation, individually and as part of a group.
5. Demonstrate a knowledge of arranging skills for jazz vocal ensemble.
6. Demonstrate an ability to sing melodies securely by internally hearing associated harmony.

Weekly Topics

1. Chromatic scale singing, chord formation, sight singing, drills.
2. Spontaneous pop harmonising. Major Pentatonic scale & practical use.
3. Singing modes of the major scale & related chords.
4. Singing modes of the melodic minor scale & related chords.
5. Sight singing, Chord formation, arrangement analysis, rehearse repertoire.
6. Chord progression work, arranging skills, rehearse repertoire.
7. Blues harmony, scatting practice, rehearse repertoire.
8. Melody singing & analysis, rehearse repertoire.
9. Arranging rep tunes spontaneously with bass lines & guide tones, rehearse repertoire.
10. Arranging rep tunes spontaneously with bass lines & guide tones. Sing sequential patterns over progressions, rehearse repertoire.
11. Arranging rep tunes spontaneously with bass lines & guide tones, rehearse repertoire melody and skills, rehearse repertoire.
12. Review, rehearse repertoire

Assessment:

Subject Name: Jazz Arranging 2
Subject Code: 33226
Credit Points: 5
Award(s): Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance
Core / Elective: Elective
Pre / co-requisites: Jazz Arranging 1
Modes: Full Time. On campus only
Delivery / Contact hrs: 2 Hour class per week for 12 weeks
Subject Coordinator: Paula Girvan
Teaching Staff: Brad Esbensen

Subject Rationale
Jazz musicians benefit from the ability to create and arrange their own music, and this elective further develops the foundational arranging skills which are built into the core subjects of this course. In the context of this course, this elective is not integrated directly with the other subjects, but does complement them. Students enrolled in this elective will draw upon their experiences in practical and theory based subjects, and in turn, will be able to contribute to such subjects as Contemporary Performance Practice and Ensemble by creating arrangements for them. Students who enrol in this elective will find that it enhances their capacity to complete the arrangement tasks required of them in Ensemble and Jazz Materials. This subject examines extended and complex jazz arrangement techniques for various jazz ensembles, including voice. Students will learn through applying arrangement skills, and through listening, analysis and reading.

Learning Outcomes:
Through the processes of aural and written analysis, building a broad knowledge of styles, arranging for specific jazz ensembles, and hearing the arrangements performed, students will be able to demonstrate:

1. An advanced conceptual understanding of musical components and processes appropriate to various styles of jazz applied to various ensembles
2. An insightful ability to create, interpret, present, evaluate and analyse musical material in innovative ways
3. A secure acquired knowledge of instrumental and vocal ranges and the timbral capacities of all instruments
4. An advanced applied understanding of historical style and associated treatment of melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic material
5. A high level of ability to creatively arrange work for performance by small ensembles

Weekly Topics

1. 4 & 5 Part Voicing Techniques
2. Harmonisation of passing tones
3. Review
4. Writing for sections: Saxes/Woodwind
5. Writing for sections: Brass
6. Writing for sections: Saxes/Woodwind
7. Writing for sections: Rhythm Section
8. Writing for sections: Voices
9. Review
10. Analysis of other arrangements
11. Analysis of other arrangements
12. Analysis of other arrangements
13. Review

Assessment

Subject Name: Jazz Composition 2
Subject Code: 33228
Credit Points: 5
Award(s): Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance
Core / Elective: Elective
Pre / co-requisites: Jazz Composition 1
Modes: Full Time. On campus only
Delivery / Contact hrs: 2 Hour class per week for 12 weeks
Subject Coordinator: Paula Girvan
Teaching Staff:Travis Jenkins

Subject Rationale:
Jazz Composition 2 advances the student’s writing skills and creativity in a broad range of styles and ensemble settings. Through practical and theoretical experiences, it expands knowledge of the elements of notation, structure, orchestration and style in the creative writing process. In the context of this course, this elective does not integrate directly with the other subjects, but contributes to the student’s conceptual understanding of jazz. In this elective, students will further explore the creative process, thus enhancing the student’s other subjects, and providing opportunities for performances of original work in class and public settings. This subject will foster an understanding of compositional techniques used in a variety of contemporary jazz styles. It gives insight into techniques of advanced composition through study of form, structure, melody writing. Bitonality, counterpoint and orchestration in contemporary, post-bop and modal styles.

Learning Outcomes:
Through practical and theoretical approaches, aural and written study, students will develop the ability to:

1. Successfully present works publicly at a professional level
2. Successfully build a portfolio of original compositions
3. Demonstrate an advanced understanding of appropriate notation and structure through application in written presentation of their work, including presentation of score and parts for ensemble members
4. Clearly articulate and reflect upon the creative process through critical analysis of one’s own experience

Weekly Topics

1. Research into composition portfolio
2. Writing for 2, 3, and 4 horns
3. Writing rhythm section parts
4. Developing “long” structures
5. Integrating improvisation into composition
6. Score analysis
7. Articulation/dynamics, writing parts, summary of course
8. In class reading session of Compositions
9. Performance assessment of 2 compositions

Assessment 

Subject Name: Self-Directed Study 1
Subject Code: 33251
Credit Points: 5
Award(s): Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance
Core / Elective: Elective
Pre / co-requisites: Nil
Modes: As appropriate to the project.
Delivery / Contact hrs: Supervision as required by the individual project, which is taken over 12 weeks
Subject Coordinator: Paula Girvan
Teaching Staff: Charlotte Mclean

Subject Rationale:
To prepare students as professional musicians, it is important that they have flexibility to pursue a professional project of their own choosing, under supervision and mentoring by JMI staff, selected as appropriate for the particular project. The Self-directed Study project will build professional experience in a field related to the student’s own study interests. During the experience they will be encouraged to document and reflect upon the experience. In the context of this course, this elective does not integrate directly with the other subjects, but contributes to the student’s conceptual understanding of what it means to be a professional jazz musician. This subject develops knowledge and skills in individual ways relative to the individual project. Each one will be formally documented with projected learning outcomes and methods of assessment agreed between student and mentor.

Learning Outcomes:
The learning outcomes will vary for each project, and the supervisor will reach an agreement with the student as to the learning outcomes which will be expected of the project. At the very least, it would be realistic to expect that students might be able to:

1. Demonstrate specific understanding developing through the experience
2. Articulate the knowledge gained and value of the experience through a coherent written journal which both documents and reflects upon the experience
3. Reveal an advanced awareness of the professional setting in which the student was situated, or an advanced awareness of a specific topic under study

Weekly schedule:
The weekly expectations of individual students will vary with the project, and the supervisor and student will design a program of meetings and supervision tailored to the individual project. You will be allocated 4 hours of consultation time with your supervisor.

Assessment:
Assessment for each individual project will be determined by the supervisor and student in consultation when the project is designed. It is expected that there will be a written or lasting (e.g. recording, manuscript) outcome for assessment, and also a practical element. Whatever the experience, it should be documented in a professional development journal which reflects on the experience. The ratio of allocated assessment figures will depend on the individual project.

Subject Name: Self-Directed Study 2
Subject Code: 33252
Credit Points: 5
Award(s): Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance
Core / Elective: Elective
Pre / co-requisites: Self-Directed Study 1
Modes: As appropriate to the project.
Delivery / Contact hrs: Supervision as required by the individual project, which is taken over 12 weeks
Subject Coordinator: Paula Girvan
Teaching Staff: Charlotte Mclean

Subject Rationale:
To prepare students as professional musicians, it is important that they have flexibility to pursue a professional project of their own choosing, under supervision and mentoring by JMI staff, selected as appropriate for the particular project. The Self-directed Study project will build professional experience in a field related to the student’s own study interests. During the experience they will be encouraged to document and reflect upon the experience. In the context of this course, this elective does not integrate directly with the other subjects, but contributes to the student’s conceptual understanding of what it means to be a professional jazz musician. This subject develops knowledge and skills in individual ways relative to the individual project. Each one will be formally documented with projected learning outcomes and methods of assessment agreed between student and mentor.

Learning Outcomes:
The learning outcomes will vary for each project, and the supervisor will reach an agreement with the student as to the learning outcomes which will be expected of the project. At the very least, it would be realistic to expect that students might be able to:

1. Demonstrate specific understanding developing through the experience
2. Articulate the knowledge gained and value of the experience through a coherent written journal which both documents and reflects upon the experience
3. Reveal an advanced awareness of the professional setting in which the student was situated, or an advanced awareness of a specific topic under study

Weekly schedule:
The weekly expectations of individual students will vary with the project, and the supervisor and student will design a program of meetings and supervision tailored to the individual project. You will be allocated 4 hours of consultation time with your supervisor.

Assessment:
Assessment for each individual project will be determined by the supervisor and student in consultation when the project is designed. It is expected that there will be a written or lasting (e.g. recording, manuscript) outcome for assessment, and also a practical element. Whatever the experience, it should be documented in a professional development journal which reflects on the experience. The ratio of allocated assessment figures will depend on the individual project.

Subject Name: Jazz Research Study 1
Subject Code: 33253
Credit Points: 5
Award(s): Bachelor of Music Jazz Performance
Core / Elective: Elective
Pre / co-requisites: Investigating Jazz
Modes: Full Time. On campus only
Delivery / Contact hrs: 2 Hour class per week for 12 weeks
Subject Coordinator: Paula Girvan
Teaching Staff: N/A

Subject Rationale:
Research develops the knowledge base for the jazz musician, and in various ways builds their conceptual understanding of elements which contribute to and affect their performance. In the context of this course, this elective does not integrate directly with the other subjects, but contributes to the student’s conceptual understanding of jazz and their capacity for scholarly outcomes. In this elective, students will learn to apply research skills which will assist them in their preparation for Jazz in Context, Jazz Materials, and prepare them for future study. This subject develops the study and practice of musical scholarship, through application of research skills in a mentored project undertaken by students who wish to extend themselves in a scholarly manner. It will pay particular attention to the research process as it relates to the student’s chosen project.

Learning Outcomes:
Through class discussion, critical reading, and the completion of an approved individual project, students will learn to demonstrate:

1. A clear understanding of the research process as it applies to the individual project
2. A thorough and organised approach to designing methodology and implementing the data collection strategies
3. A developing ability to critically analyse and present research data
4. Developing oral skills in articulate presentations about a variety of topics dealing with jazz in Australia
5. Coherent written skills about selected topics which interrogate the student’s conceptual understanding of jazz in its social and historical contexts

Weekly Topics

1. The research process in detail
2. The research process – Methodology
3. The research process – Literature Reviews
4. The research process – gathering data
5. The research process – analysing data
6. ASSESSMENT
7. Mentoring the researchers
8. Mentoring the researchers
9. Mentoring the researchers
10. Mentoring the researchers
11. NO CLASS
12. NO CLASS 

Assessment:

Subject Name: Jazz Research Study 2
Subject Code: 33254
Credit Points: 5
Award(s): Bachelor of Music Jazz Performance
Core / Elective: Elective
Pre / co-requisites: Jazz Research Study 1
Modes: Full Time. On campus only
Delivery / Contact hrs: 2 Hour class per week for 13weeks
Subject Coordinator: Paula Girvan
Teaching Staff: N/A

Subject Rationale:
Research develops the knowledge base for the jazz musician, and in various ways builds their conceptual understanding of elements which contribute to and affect their performance. In the context of this course, this elective is not integrated directly with the other subjects, but contributes to the student’s conceptual understanding of jazz and scholarly development. In this elective, students will continue to develop research skills which will assist them in their preparation for further study. This subject develops an understanding of the relationship between scholarship and the research process. Through the study of methodology and research techniques, students will be equipped to design and engage in a mentored research project which will result in a conference presentation.

Learning Outcomes:
Through class discussion, critical reading, and the completion of an approved individual project, students will learn to demonstrate:

1. An advanced understanding of and ability to apply each stage in the research process
2. A thorough and organised approach to project developing the concept, designing  and implementing the research project
3. An advancing ability to critically analyse and present research data
4. Oral skills which are articulate and concise in an oral conference presentation which also requires them to respond to questions about the research  and its process
5. Advanced and coherent written skills in the scholarly presentation of the research

Weekly Topics

1. The research process in review
2. Finding a conference
3. The project: developing the concept and abstract
4. Designing the project, including methodology
5. The abstract and literature review
6. Confirming the methodology
7. Mentoring the researchers
8. Mentoring the researchers
9. Mentoring the researchers
10. Mentoring the researchers
11. Student presentations
12. Student presentations

Assessment:

Subject Name: Performance Project Study 1
Subject Code: 33255
Credit Points: 5
Award(s): Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance
Core / Elective: Elective
Pre / co-requisites: N/A
Delivery / Contact hrs: As appropriate to the project with consultations for 12 weeks
Subject Coordinator: Paula Girvan
Teaching Staff: Charlotte Mclean

Subject Rationale:
To prepare students as professional musicians, it is important that they have flexibility to pursue a professional project of their own choosing, under supervision and mentoring by JMI staff, selected as appropriate for the particular project. The Performance Project Study project will build professional experience in a field related to the student’s own study interests. During the experience they will be encouraged to document and reflect upon the experience. In the context of this course, this elective does not integrate directly with the other subjects, but contributes to the student’s conceptual understanding of what it means to be a professional jazz musician. This subject develops knowledge and skills in individual ways relative to the individual project. Each one will be formally documented with projected learning outcomes and methods of assessment agreed between student and mentor.

Learning Outcomes:
The learning outcomes will vary for each project, and the supervisor will reach an agreement with the student as to the learning outcomes which will be expected of the project. At the very least, it would be realistic to expect that students might be able to:

1. Demonstrate specific understanding developing through the experience
2. Articulate the knowledge gained and value of the experience through a coherent written journal which both documents and reflects upon the experience
3. Reveal an advanced awareness of the professional setting in which the student was situated, or an advanced awareness of a specific topic under study

Weekly schedule:
The weekly one hour class will be spent workshopping and discussing the progression of each individual student’s project.  Class time will be spent discussing the project concept, venues, instrumentation, repertoire, arrangements, charts etc.  Each student will be graded on their preparedness for class and the level to which they engage in class discussion.

Assessment:

Subject Name: Performance Project Study 2
Subject Code: 33256
Credit Points: 5
Award(s): Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance
Core / Elective: Elective
Pre / co-requisites: Performance Project Study 1
Delivery / Contact hrs: As appropriate to the project with consultations for 12 weeks
Subject Coordinator: Paula Girvan
Teaching Staff: Charlotte Mclean

Subject Rationale:
To prepare students as professional musicians, it is important that they have flexibility to pursue a professional project of their own choosing, under supervision and mentoring by JMI staff, selected as appropriate for the particular project. The Performance Project Study project will build professional experience in a field related to the student’s own study interests. During the experience they will be encouraged to document and reflect upon the experience. In the context of this course, this elective does not integrate directly with the other subjects, but contributes to the student’s conceptual understanding of what it means to be a professional jazz musician. This subject develops knowledge and skills in individual ways relative to the individual project. Each one will be formally documented with projected learning outcomes and methods of assessment agreed between student and mentor.

Learning Outcomes:
The learning outcomes will vary for each project, and the supervisor will reach an agreement with the student as to the learning outcomes which will be expected of the project. At the very least, it would be realistic to expect that students might be able to:

1. Demonstrate specific understanding developing through the experience
2. Articulate the knowledge gained and value of the experience through a coherent written journal which both documents and reflects upon the experience
3. Reveal an advanced awareness of the professional setting in which the student was situated, or an advanced awareness of a specific topic under study

Weekly schedule:
The weekly one hour class will be spent workshopping and discussing the progression of each individual student’s project.  Class time will be spent discussing the project concept, venues, instrumentation, repertoire, arrangements, charts etc.  Each student will be graded on their preparedness for class and the level to which they engage in class discussion.

Assessment:

Subject Name: Self-Directed Study 3
Subject Code: 33261
Credit Points: 5
Award(s): Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance
Core / Elective: Elective
Pre / co-requisites: Self-Directed Study 2
Modes: As appropriate to the project.
Delivery / Contact hrs: Supervision as required by the individual project, which is taken over 12 weeks
Subject Coordinator: Paula Girvan
Teaching Staff: Charlotte Mclean

Subject Rationale:
To prepare students as professional musicians, it is important that they have flexibility to pursue a professional project of their own choosing, under supervision and mentoring by JMI staff, selected as appropriate for the particular project. The Self-directed Study project will build professional experience in a field related to the student’s own study interests. During the experience they will be encouraged to document and reflect upon the experience. In the context of this course, this elective does not integrate directly with the other subjects, but contributes to the student’s conceptual understanding of what it means to be a professional jazz musician. This subject develops knowledge and skills in individual ways relative to the individual project. Each one will be formally documented with projected learning outcomes and methods of assessment agreed between student and mentor.

Learning Outcomes:
The learning outcomes will vary for each project, and the supervisor will reach an agreement with the student as to the learning outcomes which will be expected of the project. At the very least, it would be realistic to expect that students might be able to:

1. Demonstrate specific understanding developing through the experience
2. Articulate the knowledge gained and value of the experience through a coherent written journal which both documents and reflects upon the experience
3. Reveal an advanced awareness of the professional setting in which the student was situated, or an advanced awareness of a specific topic under study

Weekly schedule:
The weekly expectations of individual students will vary with the project, and the supervisor and student will design a program of meetings and supervision tailored to the individual project. You will be allocated 4 hours of consultation time with your supervisor.

Assessment:
Assessment for each individual project will be determined by the supervisor and student in consultation when the project is designed. It is expected that there will be a written or lasting (e.g. recording, manuscript) outcome for assessment, and also a practical element. Whatever the experience, it should be documented in a professional development journal which reflects on the experience. The ratio of allocated assessment figures will depend on the individual project.

Subject Name: Self-Directed Study 4
Subject Code: 33262
Credit Points: 5
Award(s): Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance
Core / Elective: Elective
Pre / co-requisites: Self-Directed Study 3
Modes: As appropriate to the project.
Delivery / Contact hrs: Supervision as required by the individual project, which is taken over 12 weeks
Subject Coordinator: Paula Girvan
Teaching Staff: Charlotte Mclean

Subject Rationale:
To prepare students as professional musicians, it is important that they have flexibility to pursue a professional project of their own choosing, under supervision and mentoring by JMI staff, selected as appropriate for the particular project. The Self-directed Study project will build professional experience in a field related to the student’s own study interests. During the experience they will be encouraged to document and reflect upon the experience. In the context of this course, this elective does not integrate directly with the other subjects, but contributes to the student’s conceptual understanding of what it means to be a professional jazz musician. This subject develops knowledge and skills in individual ways relative to the individual project. Each one will be formally documented with projected learning outcomes and methods of assessment agreed between student and mentor.

Learning Outcomes:
The learning outcomes will vary for each project, and the supervisor will reach an agreement with the student as to the learning outcomes which will be expected of the project. At the very least, it would be realistic to expect that students might be able to:

1. Demonstrate specific understanding developing through the experience
2. Articulate the knowledge gained and value of the experience through a coherent written journal which both documents and reflects upon the experience
3. Reveal an advanced awareness of the professional setting in which the student was situated, or an advanced awareness of a specific topic under study

Weekly schedule:
The weekly expectations of individual students will vary with the project, and the supervisor and student will design a program of meetings and supervision tailored to the individual project. You will be allocated 4 hours of consultation time with your supervisor.

Assessment:
Assessment for each individual project will be determined by the supervisor and student in consultation when the project is designed. It is expected that there will be a written or lasting (e.g. recording, manuscript) outcome for assessment, and also a practical element. Whatever the experience, it should be documented in a professional development journal which reflects on the experience. The ratio of allocated assessment figures will depend on the individual project.