Music 608 - Graduate Jazz Analysis

This course is designed for graduate jazz performance, composition and arranging majors. It encompasses the advanced study of jazz functional harmony and beyond, through standard repertoire, harmonic analysis, and chord/scale relationship theory; harmonization and reharmonization exercises; development of diatonic and chromatic harmonic vocabulary; analysis of complex chord progressions based upon post-1960 harmonic techniques; and the study of modal harmony and its relationship to jazz improvisation, arranging, and composition. Assignments include standards, advanced reharmonization, jazz score textural and orchestral analysis, solo transcription analysis, and score reduction.

Open to Graduate students only.