MUS 510 - Improvisation Styles and Literature

(3 units)

Prerequisite: Graduate student in Music or consent of instructor.
Explores various musical styles, forms, genres, and significant musical concepts in Jazz Improvisation. Theoretical work emphasizes detailed study of harmonic and linear forms, digital patterns and scales, combination of idioms, patterns, use of experimental material, transcriptions and historic implications.

Letter grade only (A-F).