The basic principles of jazz-playing are studied in a practical course. Theoretical tests and assessed performance. This practical course, intended for keen singers and pianists, and imaginative listeners, will be concerned with both the literary and musical aspects of song by nineteenth-century German and French composers. Students are required to prepare, thoroughly, four songs for each day school, preferably with their usual keyboard partners. Continuous assessment based on class participation, plus assessed performance.
Listeners have to produce a written assignments.
Continuous assessment based on class participation, plus an assignment. The Ashkenazic and Sephardic traditions in Jewish music studied in detail. Continuous assessment based on class participation, plus a written assignment. This is a course for singers and instrumentalists with some technical facility who wish to learn how to perform 32-bar jazz standards, including interpretation of the ballard form. A number of classic 'standard' tunes will be analysed and discussed in order to help to familiarise students with feature of the idiom.