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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Jazz Improvisation 4
  • Unit Code

    MUS2317
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    4
  • Credit Points

    10
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Thomas Joseph O'HALLORAN

Description

Advanced improvisation techniques of the Bebop, Post-bop periods are studied in this unit in order to develop student facility in the technical and stylistic aspects of improvisation. Complex harmonic forms from the bebop period will be used to provide a basis for these improvisations, with harmonic and rhythmic aspects of improvisation being applied.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Improvise using bebop and post-bop improvisation techniques with a medium complexity.
  2. Construct improvised melodies that incorporate further extended dominant chord harmony.
  3. Construct improvised melodies that incorporate polyrhythmic concepts of a medium complexity.
  4. Apply diverse phrasing within improvisations.

Unit Content

  1. Minor Scale Tone Harmony and the Minor ii-V7-i.
  2. Applying chord substitutions to standard harmonic forms.
  3. Intermediate level polyrhythmic concepts.
  4. Phrase placement and length manipulation.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered11 x 2 hour lectureNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Weekly classes including theoretical work, performance and group collaboration.

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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Creative WorkCompose and perform jazz solos using extended dominant harmony and polyrhythmic techniques 30%
PerformanceImprovise jazz solos using extended dominant harmony and polyrhythmic techniques within standard jazz forms30%
ExaminationImprovise within jazz forms using jazz phrasing, bebop, harmonic and rhythmic devices as instructed by lecturer. 40%

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 Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Jazz Improvisation 4
  • Unit Code

    MUS2317
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    4
  • Credit Points

    10
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Thomas Joseph O'HALLORAN

Description

Advanced improvisation techniques of the Bebop, Post-bop periods are studied in this unit in order to develop student facility in the technical and stylistic aspects of improvisation. Complex harmonic forms from the bebop period will be used to provide a basis for these improvisations, with harmonic and rhythmic aspects of improvisation being applied.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Improvise using bebop and post-bop improvisation techniques with a medium complexity.
  2. Construct improvised melodies that incorporate further extended dominant chord harmony.
  3. Construct improvised melodies that incorporate polyrhythmic concepts of a medium complexity.
  4. Apply diverse phrasing within improvisations.

Unit Content

  1. Minor Scale Tone Harmony and the Minor ii-V7-i.
  2. Applying chord substitutions to standard harmonic forms.
  3. Intermediate level polyrhythmic concepts.
  4. Phrase placement and length manipulation.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered11 x 2 hour lectureNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Weekly classes including theoretical work, performance and group collaboration.

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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Creative WorkCompose and perform jazz solos using extended dominant harmony and polyrhythmic techniques 30%
PerformanceImprovise jazz solos using extended dominant harmony and polyrhythmic techniques within standard jazz forms30%
ExaminationImprovise within jazz forms using jazz phrasing, bebop, harmonic and rhythmic devices as instructed by lecturer. 40%

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 Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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