Jazz Compositional Styles

Catalog description

This course examines jazz compositions and arrangements for ensembles of all sizes. Students will study, in detail, the great works of many of the foremost jazz composers and arrangers. Students will hear and see music that, in some cases, is no longer in print or has never been published (provided by the instructor). Course Pre-requisites: Jazz Arranging MDT 526 ; Early Jazz to the Swing Era MDT 612 ; Jazz History II (Bebop to Contemporary) MDT 613 .