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

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Introduction

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

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Formal structures

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

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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

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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,