2023

Jazz Theory and Analysis I

Name: Jazz Theory and Analysis I
Code: MUS12943L
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; understanding of secondary dominants and of the implications on the related chord-scales;
Analyzing harmonic progressions in a tonal context; understanding 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 tonality; neighbour tonalities; cadences and typical harmonic progressions; traditional blues; secondary dominants.
Functional harmony; chord-scales; dominant resolution; related II; deceptive resolution; interpolated dominant resolution.

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, relavancy in participation, delivery of requested works, ability to solve proposed exercises in class, presentations and midterm.
Semestral evaluation (60%): final test.

Teaching Staff