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: Dan Quigley
Teaching Staff: Dan Quigley, Paula Girvan other sessional staff when required
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:
Assessment
Assessment Item | Topic/s | Learning Outcomes assessed (LO) | Week Content Delivered | Due | Weighting | Practical workshop before peer audience | 1 workshop per semester | 1,2,5,6 | 1-6 | As scheduled | 20% |
Practical Performance: 10 minutes maximum before peer audience | 1 performance per semester | 1,2,5,6 | 7-13 | As scheduled | 50% |
Written Assessment: Individual Reflective Essay | 500 word reflective essay | 1,3,4,5 | 7-13 | One week after first performance | 15% |
Written Assessment: Peer Review | 500 word reflective essay | 1,3,4,5 | 7-13 | Week 13 | 15% |
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: Dan Quigley
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
Assessment
Assessment Item | Detail | Learning Outcomes assessed (LO) | Due | Weighting |
Group Performance | 1 x 30 minute performance | 1,2,3,4,5 | As scheduled | 50% |
Ensemble Contribution | Weekly contribution towards Ensemble class | 1,2,3,4,5 | Each Week | 36% |
Oral Presentation | Critical review of performance | 3 | Week following performance | 14% |
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: Dan Quigley
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:
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:
Repertoire list
Assessment
Assessment Item | Topic/s | Learning Outcomes assessed (LO) | Due | Weighting |
Performance: 20 – 30mins, Internal Panel (3 staff) * | Performance Recital | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 | Exam Period | 40% |
Scales exam | Technical requirements set at beginning of semester; including Scale/Chord syllabus and the required technical piece set for the semester. | 1,2,3,4,5,9 | Week 13 | 25% |
Transcription | At least 32 bars from selected or otherwise approved solo. | 1,3,4,5,7 | Exam period | 15% |
Research essay | 2000 Word essay on selective topic | 4,8,9 | Week 8 | 20% |
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: 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 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:
Assessment
Assessment Item | Topic/s | Learning Outcomes assessed (LO) | Week Content Delivered | Due | Weighting |
Individual Assessment 1 | Recognition: Intervals, triads, chords, chord progressions, rhythm dictation, melodic dictation, modes | 1,2,3 | 1 – 5 | Week 6 | 20% |
Individual Assessment 2 | Recognition: Intervals, triads, chords, chord progressions, rhythm dictation, melodic dictation, modes | 1,2,3 | 1 – 9 | Week 10 | 20% |
Final Assessment | Assessment covering all content from the semester | 1,3,5 | 1 – 13 | Exam period | 30% |
Transcription Assignment: melodic/harmonic transcription from recorded source | Aural Analysis | 1,2,3,4,5 | Weeks 11 – 13 | 30% |
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: Josh Hatcher
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:
Assessment:
Assessment Item | Topic/s | Learning Outcomes assessed (LO) | Week Content Delivered | Due | Weighting |
Individual Assessment 1 | Written Exam | 1,2,3,4,5 | 1-6 | Week 7 | 40% |
Individual Assessment 2 | Contrafact | 1, 2, 3, 4,5 | 1-13 | Week 14 | 40% |
Individual Assessment 4 | Piano skills | 1,2,3,4,5 | Week 14 | 20% |
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: Dan Quigley
Teaching Staff: Travis Jenkins, 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:
Assessment:
Assessment Item | Topic/s | Learning Outcomes assessed (LO) | Week Content Delivered | Due | Weighting |
Practical Assessment | Repertoire Assessment 1 | 1,2,3,4 | 1-5 | Week 6 (in class) | 25% |
Practical Assessment | Repertoire Assessment 2 | 1,2,3,4 | 6-11 | Week 12 (in class) | 25% |
Practical Assessment: individual improvisations | Demonstrate multiple improvisation techniques learned to include use of rhythm, guide tones; harmonic relationship; and melodic embellishment over 3 repertoire pieces of assessor’s choice with staff rhythm section. | 1,2,3,4 | 1-13 | Exam period | 30% |
Practical assessment | Set practical tasks as set by the teacher | 1,2,3,4 | 1-10 | Week 10 | 20% |
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 13 weeks
Subject Coordinator: Dan Quigley
Teaching Staff: Dan Quigley, Paula Girvan other sessional staff when required
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:
Assessment
Assessment Item | Topic/s | Learning Outcomes assessed (LO) | Week Content Delivered | Due | Weighting | Practical workshop before peer audience | 1 workshop per semester | 1,2,5,6 | 1-6 | As scheduled | 20% |
Practical Performance: 10 minutes maximum before peer audience | 1 performance per semester | 1,2,5,6 | 7-13 | As scheduled | 50% |
Written Assessment: Individual Reflective Essay | 500 word reflective essay | 1,3,4,5 | 7-13 | One week after first performance | 15% |
Written Assessment: Peer Review | 500 word reflective essay | 1,3,4,5 | 7-13 | Week 13 | 15% |
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: Dan Quigley
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
Assessment
Assessment Item | Detail | Learning Outcomes assessed (LO) | Due | Weighting |
Group Performance | 1 x 30 minute performance | 1,2,3,4,5 | As scheduled | 50% |
Ensemble Contribution | Weekly contribution towards Ensemble class | 1,2,3,4,5 | Each Week | 36% |
Oral Presentation | Critical review of performance | 3 | Week following performance | 14% |
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:
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:
Repertoire list
Assessment
Assessment Item | Topic/s | Learning Outcomes assessed (LO) | Due | Weighting |
Performance: 20 – 30mins, Internal Panel (3 staff) * | Performance Recital | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 | Exam Period | 40% |
Scales exam | Technical requirements set at beginning of semester; including Scale/Chord syllabus and the required technical piece set for the semester. | 1,2,3,4,5,9 | Week 13 | 25% |
Transcription | At least 32 bars from selected or otherwise approved solo. | 1,3,4,5,7 | Exam period | 15% |
Research essay | 2000 Word essay on selective topic | 4,8,9 | Week 8 | 20% |
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 13 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 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:
Assessment
Assessment Item | Topic/s | Learning Outcomes assessed (LO) | Week Content Delivered | Due | Weighting |
Individual Assessment 1 and 3 | Recognition of Intervals, Melodies, Chords, Chord progressions, Modes, Rhythms and core rep tunes, including lyrics | 1,2,3 | 1 – 7 | Week 5 & Exam period | 60% |
Individual Assessment 2: Transcription Assignment: melodic/harmonic/rhythmic from recorded source | Aural Analysis | 1,2,3,4,5 | 1 – 13 | Weeks 4, 8 12, 13 | 40% |
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 13 weeks
Subject Coordinator: Dan Quigley
Teaching Staff: Josh Hatcher
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:
Assessment:
Assessment Item | Topic/s | Learning Outcomes assessed (LO) | Week Content Delivered | Due | Weighting |
Individual assessment 1 | Mid-Semester Exam | 1,2,3,4,5 | 1-6 | Week 7 | 40% |
Individual Assessment 2 | Final Exam | 1,2,3,4,5 | 7-13 | Week 14 | 40% |
Individual Assessment 3 | Piano Skills | 1,2,3,4,5 | 1-13 | Exam Period | 20% |
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 13 weeks
Subject Coordinator: Dan Quigley
Teaching Staff: Travis Jenkins, 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:
Assessment:
Assessment Item | Topic/s | Learning Outcomes assessed (LO) | Week Content Delivered | Due | Weighting |
Practical Assessment | Repertoire Assessment 1 | 1,2,3,4 | 1-5 | Week 6 (in class) | 25% |
Practical Assessment | Repertoire Assessment 2 | 1,2,3,4 | 6-11 | Week 12 (in class) | 25% |
Practical Assessment: individual improvisations | Demonstrate multiple improvisation techniques learned to include use of rhythm, guide tones; harmonic relationship; and melodic embellishment over 3 repertoire pieces of assessor’s choice with staff rhythm section. | 1,2,3,4 | 1-13 | Exam period | 30% |
Practical assessment | Set practical tasks as set by the teacher | 1,2,3,4 | 1-10 | Week 10 | 20% |