Course Syllabus
Course: MUSC 4406
Division: Fine Arts, Comm, and New MediaDepartment: Music
Title: Jazz Chamber Music IV
Semester Approved: Fall 2019
Five-Year Review Semester: Summer 2025
End Semester: Summer 2025
Catalog Description: Chamber ensemble groups for jazz musicians. This ensemble will provide students with an opportunity to develop technical skill, sight-reading ability, and knowledge of the repertory related to the ensemble. It further allows students to synthesize musical, historical and cultural knowledge into meaningful artistic expression. Registration by permission of instructor. Audition required. May be repeated for credit.
Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit/Time Requirement: Credit: 1; Lecture: 2; Lab: 0
Prerequisites: MUSC 3406 or permission of Instructor. Audition required.
Justification: This course prepares students to perform in a prevalent style of jazz performance: the small combo. Similar courses are available in both classical and jazz music at other four year institutions in Utah.
General Education Outcomes:
1: A student who completes the GE curriculum has a fundamental knowledge of human cultures and the natural world. Each student will be required to read the jazz textbook and assimilate the theoretical material when practicing and performing. Tests and performance evaluations will be given to test this knowledge and furthermore ensure that the concepts and material can be used in "real time" during a performance.
2: A student who completes the GE curriculum can read and research effectively within disciplines. Through the historical research process, students will be evaluated on their ability to successfully write a research document that accurately reflects the history and impact of historical jazz musicians.
Student Learning Outcomes:
Students will communicate the understanding which they have gained to their audiences. This outcome will be assessed at the end of semester concert.
Students will accurately perform the rhythms, melodies and harmonies of the music selected by the director; This outcome will be assessed through documented practice time, participation in weekly rehearsals and sectionals, the end of semester concert, and self-assessment and reflection of the concert recording.
Students will perform essential music skills as part of a section, including, proper intonation blend and balance; This outcome will be assessed through documented practice time, participation in weekly rehearsals and sectionals, the end of semester concert, and self-assessment and reflection of the concert recording.
Students will show improvement in both speed and accuracy of literature learning as measured by small group assessment; This outcome will be assessed through documented practice time, participation in weekly rehearsals and sectionals, the end of semester concert, and self-assessment and reflection of the concert recording.
Students will understand the music in its historical setting as well as the stylistic, expressive, and formal qualities associated with the particular era of music history; This outcome will be assessed through documented practice time, participation in weekly rehearsals and sectionals, the end of semester concert, and self-assessment and reflection of the concert recording.
Content:
Members of the ensemble will learn and perform appropriate literature as selected by the instructor. Content includes study of:
• Intonation
• Balance
• Blend
• Articulation
• Historical Context
• Performance Practice
Key Performance Indicators:
Students in instrumental music performance courses are assessed in the following ways
Participation Rates - Attendance at class sessions 15 to 30%
Written Assignments - Practice Logs & Recordings 15 to 20%
Presentation/Performance – Sectional rehearsal participation and performance 15 to 30%
Presentation/Performance - Concert participation and performance 20 to 30%
Group Project - Participation in concert recording review and critique 10 to 15%
Representative Text and/or Supplies:
Literature is taken from the Snow College score library.
Pedagogy Statement:
This course is delivered via direct instruction, student collaborative work, demonstration and modeling.
Instructional Mediums:
Lecture
Maximum Class Size: 20
Optimum Class Size: 12