Three Jazz Giants

Catalog description

MUS 1931 and 1932 are upper level courses, seminars, that allow students to consider a discrete musical topic in at least two ways: both historically and also systematically (that is, by the consideration of a topic as within a variety of semi-independent fields, including acoustics, aesthetics, psychology, pedagogy, sociology, and music theory). Most musicology topics require skill in music reading and some experience in musical analysis, but this term's topic is different from classical topics in that the primary basis of jazz is improvisation, which is often not written in musical notation, except after the fact. But we will not ignore the written examples of jazz compositions and group arrangements.