MUSIC 335R

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Jazz Legacy Band

Music College of Fine Arts and Communications

Course Description

Traditional ensemble specializing in early jazz. Band occasionally tours off campus.

When Taught

Fall and Winter

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1

Fixed/Max

1

Fixed

2

Fixed

0

Other Prerequisites

Audition.

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Performance Routines

Learning Outcome

Students will play typical introductions, endings, solo backgrounds, texture routines characteristic of traditional jazz styles

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Improvisation

Learning Outcome

Each student will improvise solos in the style of the early jazz masters who play his or her instrument. 

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Style

Learning Outcome

Students will perform traditional jazz, improvising within the traditional jazz tutti texture. Each student will demonstrate the roll of his or her instrument within the context of traditional jazz.

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25 Standard "Dixieland" tunes

Learning Outcome

Students will demonstrate the ability to play 25 "Dixieland Standards." These are among the most commonly performed tunes that are played by professional "Dixieland" bands at casual performance engagements (gigs). Standard tunes: Avalon Basin Street Blues Big Butter and Egg Man Black and Blue Bourbon Street Parade Do You Know What it Means High Society I Can't Give You Anything But Love I Found A New Baby Indiana (Back Home Again in) Ja Da Just A Closer Walk With Thee Muskrat Ramble Royal Garden Blues St. James Infirmary St. Louis Blues Struttin' With Some Barbecue Sweet Georgia Brown That's A Plenty Tin Roof Blues Twelfth Street Rag Up a Lazy River When the Saints Go Marching In When You're Smiling  Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey