Jazz and Pop Harmony

Catalog description

For students with knowledge of the rudiments of music, including scales, intervals, key signatures, rhythm, and meter. Keyboard skills strongly recommended. Intensive study of chord scales, chord progressions, modulation, voice leading, melody writing, harmonization, reharmonization, chord symbols, and lead sheet construction. Lab sessions will focus on ear training, keyboard exercises, and sight singing. Emphasis will be on the vocabulary of jazz theory.