MUSC 103 Introduction to Jazz (5 credits)
Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities; General Transfer Elective
Formerly MUSIC 103
Course Description
Introduces jazz and it’s variations: ragtime, blues, dixieland, boogie, swing, bebop, funk & fusion. Relevant cultural data pertaining to jazz is covered. Develops recognition skills through listening. Previous music experience is not necessary.
Course Content
A general survey course designed to introduce students to jazz music from the following periods: ragtime, the blues, New Orleans dixieland, Chicago dixieland, stride piano, boogie-woogie, swing, bebop, cool, hard bop, funky, third stream, free jazz, fusion, neoclassicism, Latin jazz. Relevant cultural, biographical, and historical data are covered that pertain to jazz music and its performance. Listening skills are exercised and become the vehicle through which specific jazz music concepts are examined. No previous music experience is necessary or expected.
Student Outcomes
1. Analyze and aurally recognize compositions known to represent specific styles of jazz.
2. Trace relevant aspects of the sociological, historical, and economic development of those cultures involved in the production of jazz between 1800-to the present.
3. Assess the development of the American culture between 1800 and the present and determine its effect on the evolution of jazz.
4. Analyze and aurally identify music concepts found within specific jazz music examples.
5. Give examples of the nonmusical features of jazz contribute to elements of style.
6. Identify the style of select jazz recordings through aural analysis.
7. Recall specific biographical and historical information of select jazz personalities.
8. Predict future developments in jazz based on a musical, historical, and sociologically study of its evolution.
Degree Outcomes
Humanities: Graduates acquire critical skills to interpret, analyze, and evaluate forms of human expression, which can include creation and performance as an expression of human experience.
Multiculturalism: Graduates will demonstrate knowledge of diverse ideas, cultures, and experiences, and develop the ability to examine their own attitudes and assumptions in order to understand and work with others who differ from themselves.
Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50
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