2023
Jazz Theory and Analysis II
Name: Jazz Theory and Analysis II
Code: MUS12990L
3 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours
Scientific Area:
Music
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English
Regime de Frequência: Presencial
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
Understanding of the principles which regulate melodic and harmonic construction in a tonal context; knowledge of the typical harmonic forms in jazz repertoire; gain new methods to practice improvisation; knowledge about the source of any modal interchange; knowledge about alternate function dominants and their correct approach; building harmonic progressions envolving melodic clichés.
Analyzing harmonic progressions in a tonal context; understanding of modulations and the relations between neighbour tonalities; determining chord-scales for any chord in a harmonic progression; analyzing the relations between harmony and melody.
Analyzing harmonic progressions in a tonal context; understanding of modulations and the relations between neighbour tonalities; determining chord-scales for any chord in a harmonic progression; analyzing the relations between harmony and melody.
Contents
Tonality; consonance/dissonance and inside/outside improvisation; tonal functions; major and minor tonality; neighbour tonalities; cadences and typical harmonic progressions; jazz blues; minor line clichés; major line clichés; modal interchange; alternate function dominants;
Functional harmony; chord-scales; interpolated dominant resolution; modulation; modal interchange; alternate function dominants.
Functional harmony; chord-scales; interpolated dominant resolution; modulation; modal interchange; alternate function dominants.
Teaching Methods
Orientation towards the established syllabus regarding the related semester, drawing 2 hours weekly classes divided into the categories of theory and analysis with a variable proportion between the two regarding their codependency and the inherent juxtaposition.
Musical examples (audio, video and/or scores) will be presented, analysed parametrically, harmonically and melodically; theoretical concepts will be presented, commented and openly discussed.
Continued evaluation (40%): attendance and punctuality, commitment and concernment, relevancy in participation, delivery of requested works, ability to solve proposed exercises in class, presentations and midterm.
Semestral evaluation (60%): final test.
Musical examples (audio, video and/or scores) will be presented, analysed parametrically, harmonically and melodically; theoretical concepts will be presented, commented and openly discussed.
Continued evaluation (40%): attendance and punctuality, commitment and concernment, relevancy in participation, delivery of requested works, ability to solve proposed exercises in class, presentations and midterm.
Semestral evaluation (60%): final test.
Teaching Staff
- Johannes Lothar Friedrich Krieger [responsible]
