Topic: Jazz: It's Evolution & Essence

Appropriate for First Year students.

TimeDaysLocationInstructorGERCreditOPUS Class NumberSyllabus (Tentative)
11:30am-12:45pm
TuTh
Performing Arts Studio
Andrews, Dwight. HAP. 41653 TBA.

August 29, 2012- December 11, 2012

Crosslisted: MUS115-000.

Catalog Description: (Same as Music 115.) Critical and analytic study of jazz idioms from the turn of the century to the present, including the blues, ragtime, Dixieland, swing, bop, and modern jazz. Emphasis on such figures as Armstrong, Ellington, Parker, Monk, and Coleman.

Semester Details:

Content: Critical and analytic study of jazz idioms from the turn of the century to the present, including the blues, ragtime, Dixieland, swing, bop, and modern jazz. Emphasis on such figures as Armstrong, Ellington, Parker, Monk, and Coleman.

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