Music 204: Weekly Schedule
Week I Chapter 1
Lecture topics
Analysis of jazz music and it's worldwide contribution through the five
important aspects of culture.
Defining Jazz
Sounds Associated with Jazz
Rhythm
Syncopation and Swing
Format "Routine" of a jazz performance
Videos: #1 Jazzmakers, 1984-86, #2 Jazz/Episode One: "Gumbo (Beginnings to
1917)" 2000,
Ken Burns
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How To Listen To Jazz
Discussion based on the Gridley Demonstration CD (red)
Gridley CD. Jazz Classics
Tracks #1, 2, 3, 4
Lecture topics
Instrument Roles
How musicians keep their place while improvising
Understanding the balance between improvisation and composition
Video: 1 (250 word) journal entry #3 Live at the Village Vanguard, Vol. 1, 1989 (The Freddie Hubbard
Quartet), #4 The Jazz Singers, #5 Jaco Pastorious (Live in Montreal),#6 The Playboy Jazz
Festival
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Week III Chapter 3
Origins of Jazz
Begin listening to the Supplemental CD in the media center, located in
the Media Center. These are historical style examples and will not be a
part of any examinations.
Video: #7 "Bluesland" #8 "Warming by the Devils Fire"
Lecture Topics
Begin listening to the supplemental CD in the media center, located in
the library.
Blues (Supplemental CD Track# 7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15)
Call and response
European Influences
Congo Square
Creole Music
Spirituals, Gospel Songs (Supplemental CD Track # 16,17,18)
Brass Bands (Supplemental CD Track# 1-4, with narration)
Week IV Chapter 4
Early Jazz
Video: #9 Jazz/Episode Two "The Gift (1917-1924)" 2000, Ken Burns
New Orleans
The Oral Tradition
Buddy Bolden
Storyville
King Oliver
Louis Armstrong
Bix Beiderbecke
Sidney Bechet
The Original Dixieland Band
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Week V Chapter 5
Swing
Midterm Examination: October 28th
Examination material Chapters 1-5 and lecture material
Gridley
listening examples:
Jazz Classics Tracks #1 - 25.
Prentice Hall Jazz Collection Tracks #1, 2
Supplemental CD (Media Center)
Tracks # 1 - 20 (Blues to 1920's Jazz)
Bring two Scantron Cards
Lecture Topics
Fletcher Henderson
The Consistent Instrumentation of Swing Bands
Jazz Arrangements
New York
Kansas City
Count Basie
Benny Goodman
Big Band Soloist (Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins)
Video:
#10"Swingin' The Blues,
#11 Jazz Dance/After Hours
Bebop
Charlie Parker
Dizzy Gillespie
Thelonious Monk
Bud Powell
Dexter Gordon
Video:#12 Thelonious Monk, "Straight No Chaser" #13 Dizzy Gillespie,
"Jivin In Bebop"
#14
Norman Granz "Improvisation"
Lecture topics
The tonal sonorities
New Instruments of the Cool Era
Cool Bands
Modern Jazz Quartet
Lester Young's contribution
Miles Davis/Gil Evans
Lennie Tristano
Lee Konitz
Gerry Mulligan
Dave Brubeck
Video: #15 "Modern Jazz Quartet -Twenty-five years"
Week VIII Chapter 8
Hardbop
Lecture topics
Funky (definition)
Bop Regression
Funky Music components (blue tones, minor keys, church rhythms)
Gospel Jazz
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
Horace Silver
Clifford Brown
John Coltrane
Charles Mingus
Video: #16 "The Adventure" Ken Burns series
Week IX (This week applies to Fall Quarter Only)
Chapter 9 Avant-Garde
Cecil Taylor
Albert Ayler
Ornette Coleman
John Coltrane
Sun Ra
Bill Evans
Video: #17 "Mystery Mr. RA"
Week X (This week applies to Fall Quarter Only)
Chapter 10
Fusion
Weather Report
John McLaughlin
Jaco Pastorious
Herbie Hancock
Chick Corea
Miles Davis/Crossover
Video: #18 Weather Report (Live at The Playboy Jazz Festival)
Week XI (applies to Fall Quarter only)
Video Journal Due Date: December 14th (Tuesday)
Concert Reviews Due Date: December 16th (Thursday)
Chapter 11
Now
A View of the Contemporary Jazz Artist
Please note: There are no written assignments due for this section!
Final Exam: December 16th (Thursday)
Time: 6:30 - 8:30pm
(Don't forget to bring two Scantron cards to the final examination)
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