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Title: Jazz and Popular Music


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Jazz and Popular Music
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Lecture overview
  • Background
  • Goal
  • Formal structures
  • The Rhythm Section
  • Soloing
  • The Elements of music
  • Music Literacy
  • Projects

3
Introduction
  • Background
  • Goal
  • to provide a basic understanding of the
    principles that underlay the genres jazz and
    popular music as experienced in performance today

4
Formal structures
  • What is jazz/popular music?
  • The vehicle
  • The chorus
  • Chord progressions

5
Blue Bossa
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The Rhythm Section
  • Drums
  • Bass
  • Guitar
  • Piano/Keyboard
  • Functions of the rhythm section

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Soloing
  • Jazz solos
  • Pop music solos

8
Elements of Music
  • Beat
  • Tempo
  • Meter
  • Rhythm
  • Syncopation
  • Swing
  • Articulation
  • Notation

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Music literacy
  • chords and progressions
  • 12 bar blues
  • voicing
  • comping
  • walking bass lines
  • latin jazz

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Chords
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Chords2
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Chords 3
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Blues
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Projects
  • (Library) Listen to the recording of Fragile(by
    Sting) and the 1st 16 bars from Beethoven Symp.5
    and make a storyboard in time line notation
    showing the following DO NOT USE THE SCORE!!!!
  • geography of the composition(score/form)
  • instrumentation/orchestration
  • Watch the video in the library on Jazz
  • Write short paragraph(five lines) describing each
    of the following
  • bebop, freejazz, modal jazz, Township jazz, acid
    jazz, jazz-rock fusion,
  • rock, soul, rhythm and blues, techno, hip-hop(or
    trip-hop), house, grundge, rap, ragga,
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