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May 04, 2024
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College Catalog 2021-2022 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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THMUS 111J — Jazz Theory I: Melody, Rhythm and Harmony3 credits
Fall
Faculty
This course introduces an understanding of melodic structure, rhythmic grooves, and harmony as written and performed in jazz. After a review of music fundamentals, primary chord/scale relationships, and notation basics, with which students will be expected to demonstrate fluency, students will learn melodic construction, rhythmic principles, and harmonic progressions key to the development of jazz. Source material will include hymns, work songs, spiritual, marches, blues, and Appalachian music. Music terminology and concepts will be introduced and the composition of monophonic as well as simple polyphonic musical phrases will be assigned.
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