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*Students will be familiar with improvisation in historical contexts, including baroque ornamentation, basso continuo, and cadenza. | |||
*Students will be familiar with various types of aleatoric music. | |||
*Students will be familiar with jazz improvisation and jams. | |||
== | ==Resources== | ||
== | ==== Readings ==== | ||
* ''Music Theory Online:'' | |||
** [http://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.17.23.2/mto.17.23.2.hannaford.html Hannaford, "Subjective (Re)positioning in Musical Improvisation: Analyzing the Work of Five Female Improvisers"] | |||
==Class Activities== | |||
== Notes == | *Discussion and exploration of different elements of classical ornamentation, and discussion of improvisational performance practice in Baroque and Classical music | ||
*Discussion of figured bass and basso continuo | |||
*Discussion of improvisational performance practice in jazz and popular music | |||
*Discussion of twentieth-century aleatoric music | |||
*Guided in-class improvisation in one of more above styles | |||
==Assignments== | |||
*Identification and analysis of different types of Baroque and Classical ornamentation in written and recorded music | |||
*Written realization of figured bass | |||
*Improvisation over a rhythm section playing changes | |||
*Transcription and analysis of a short improvised solo | |||
*Composition of a short piece which uses an aspect of indeterminacy | |||
==Notes== | |||
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Objectives
- Students will be familiar with improvisation in historical contexts, including baroque ornamentation, basso continuo, and cadenza.
- Students will be familiar with various types of aleatoric music.
- Students will be familiar with jazz improvisation and jams.
Resources
Readings
- Music Theory Online:
Class Activities
- Discussion and exploration of different elements of classical ornamentation, and discussion of improvisational performance practice in Baroque and Classical music
- Discussion of figured bass and basso continuo
- Discussion of improvisational performance practice in jazz and popular music
- Discussion of twentieth-century aleatoric music
- Guided in-class improvisation in one of more above styles
Assignments
- Identification and analysis of different types of Baroque and Classical ornamentation in written and recorded music
- Written realization of figured bass
- Improvisation over a rhythm section playing changes
- Transcription and analysis of a short improvised solo
- Composition of a short piece which uses an aspect of indeterminacy