School: Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Jazz Arranging 4
  • Unit Code

    MUS2316
  • Year

    2017
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    5
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Thomas Joseph O'HALLORAN

Description

This unit continues to develop the students understanding of the fundamental principles and techniques of arranging and their application within a jazz context. Advanced music arranging skills will be developed through an examination of musical elements and key arranging concepts, with the practice of arranging music for a large jazz ensemble being used to support and apply the underpinning theoretical constructs. Primary focuses will include: presentation and layout of music, understanding the technical limits and possibilities of the studied instruments, advanced arranging techniques and tools of creative expression.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse intermediate and advanced musical arrangements and compositions.
  2. Create original arrangements and compositions for large jazz ensembles.
  3. Demonstrate an understanding of intermediate and advanced arranging techniques.
  4. Demonstrate an understanding of intermediate compositional devices.
  5. Describe the technical features of studied instruments.
  6. Discriminate and apply the features of differing intermediate harmonic, melodic, rhythmic and structural elements.
  7. Effectively implement standard notation practice in a musical score.
  8. Implement intermediate jazz theory and improvisation concepts in an arranged setting.

Unit Content

  1. Review of instrument families: brass, woodwind and rhythm section.
  2. "Shout" choruses.
  3. Writing for the voice within arrangements.
  4. Soloist with "backing figures" techniques.
  5. Form and structure in the contemporary arranging, including interludes and transitions.
  6. Score study/orchestration/analysis.
  7. Arranging/writing to a "brief".

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, Workshops, Tutorials

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
TestInstrument ranges, transpositions and techniques.20%
Exercise"Shout" chorus techniques30%
Creative WorkMixed 5-horn, rhythm section and vocal arrangement. 50%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Jazz Arranging 4
  • Unit Code

    MUS2316
  • Year

    2017
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    5
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Thomas Joseph O'HALLORAN

Description

This unit continues to develop the students understanding of the fundamental principles and techniques of arranging and their application within a jazz context. Advanced music arranging skills will be developed through an examination of musical elements and key arranging concepts, with the practice of arranging music for a large jazz ensemble being used to support and apply the underpinning theoretical constructs. Primary focuses will include: presentation and layout of music, understanding the technical limits and possibilities of the studied instruments, advanced arranging techniques and tools of creative expression.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse intermediate and advanced musical arrangements and compositions.
  2. Create original arrangements and compositions for large jazz ensembles.
  3. Demonstrate an understanding of intermediate and advanced arranging techniques.
  4. Demonstrate an understanding of intermediate compositional devices.
  5. Describe the technical features of studied instruments.
  6. Discriminate and apply the features of differing intermediate harmonic, melodic, rhythmic and structural elements.
  7. Effectively implement standard notation practice in a musical score.
  8. Implement intermediate jazz theory and improvisation concepts in an arranged setting.

Unit Content

  1. Review of instrument families: brass, woodwind and rhythm section.
  2. "Shout" choruses.
  3. Writing for the voice within arrangements.
  4. Soloist with "backing figures" techniques.
  5. Form and structure in the contemporary arranging, including interludes and transitions.
  6. Score study/orchestration/analysis.
  7. Arranging/writing to a "brief".

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, Workshops, Tutorials

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
TestInstrument ranges, transpositions and techniques.20%
Exercise"Shout" chorus techniques30%
Creative WorkMixed 5-horn, rhythm section and vocal arrangement. 50%

Core Reading(s)

  • Nicholl, M., & Grudzinski, R. (2007). Music notation: preparing scores and parts. USA: Berklee Press.

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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