Humanities Arts Cultural Stu 0298 - Music Composition

Music Composition from the Jazz Continuum: From Jelly Roll Morton to Duke Ellington, Mary Lou Williams to Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus to Ornette Coleman, jazz composers have brought great innovation to the musical culture of their times. We will look at the way composers up to the present day engage with the blues sensibility and improvisational forms within their compositional approaches. This course aims to expand our skills with musical form, language, and medium. There will be weekly composition assignments, written for instrumentation within the class, as well as a substantial research project. We will present a final concert of our compositional work. Prerequisite: Tonal Theory II or 5 College equivalent.

Independent Work In this course, students are expected to spend 6 hours weekly on preparation and work outside of class time.