Degree | Type | Year |
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Musicology | OT | 3 |
Musicology | OT | 4 |
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It is recommended to be familiar with modern music harmony and to have a good level of English, Spanish and Catalan.
This course tries to bring students the knowledge of Jazz history and language, using critical, social, stylistic and historical analysis.
Further objectives:
- Understanding the meaning of Jazz terms: swing, jam session, groove, bop, blues, etc.
- Studying jazz repertoire (Standards)
- Acquiring knowledge of the Jazz orchestra and its evolucion through history
- Understanding the Jazz idiom from a technical and musical point of view (harmonic analysis, chord-scale relation, formal and melodic analysis)
- Jazz history: Blues. Ragtime. New Orleans. Chicago. New York. Swing. Bop. Cool. Hard Bop. Free Jazz. Third Stream. Brasil. Latin Jazz. Fussion. Contemporary Jazz.
- Standards: American Songbook. Styles, form, evolution.
- Language: Harmony, melody, Instrumentation, Swing.
- Jazz Orchestra: Evolution,function and style.
- Jazz and the Arts: Relation between Jazz and other artistic forms ( Cinema, literature, painting…)
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Master classes | 40 | 1.6 | 2, 9, 7, 8, 4, 13, 11 |
Supervision | 20 | 0.8 | 2, 7, 4, 11 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Musical texts analysis | 15 | 0.6 | 2, 9, 7, 8, 4, 13, 11 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Bibliography reading | 37 | 1.48 | |
Personal study | 33 | 1.32 | 9, 7, 13, 11 |
The classes will consist of two different parts: theory and practice. The theorical part will be taught through master classes. The Practical part will include listening and analysis, going out for concerts, etc.
In the event that tests or exams cannot be taken onsite, they will be adapted to an online format made available through the UAB’s virtual tools (original weighting will be maintained). Homework, activities and class participation will be carried out through forums, wikis and/or discussion on Teams, etc. Lecturers will ensure that students are able to access these virtual tools, or will offer them feasible alternatives.
AI: Restricted use: “For this subject, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies is allowed exclusively in support tasks, such as bibliographic or information search, text correction or translations, etc.
The student must clearly identify which parts have been generated with this technology, specify the tools used and include a critical reflection on how these have influenced the process and the final result of the activity.
The lack of transparency of the use of AI in this assessable activity will be considered a lack of academic honesty and may lead to a partial or total penalty in the grade of the activity, or greater sanctions in serious cases.”
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Active participation in class | 15% | 0 | 0 | 1, 2, 9, 5, 7, 8, 4, 10, 13, 11, 12, 14, 6, 3 |
Reading comprehension exercise | 35% | 2 | 0.08 | 1, 2, 9, 5, 7, 8, 4, 10, 13, 11, 12, 14, 6, 3 |
Theorietical exam | 50% | 3 | 0.12 | 2, 9, 7, 8, 4, 13, 11 |
It will consist of three sections:
- Critical-musical exercise on some text or section of the class contents, to be done halfway through the course (partial exam). (35%)
- Theoretical exam on the contents of the course. (50%)
- Active participation in class (15%). Although attendance and participation in class is not mandatory, participation, attendance, attitude and commitment to the class and the subject will be taken into account in the final evaluation.
To be considered a grade of "non-assessable" (previously "not submitted"), the student must have dropped out of the course without taking the written assessment test or submitting the written work.
To access the reassessment, it is essential to present the theoretical and practical exam. The re-evaluation will be a practical theoretical exam that must be passed with a 5 (maximum grade). In the event that the student commits any irregularity that could lead to a significant variation in the grade of an assessment act, this assessment act will be graded with 0, regardless of the disciplinary process that may be instituted. In the event that several irregularities occur in the evaluation acts of the same subject, the final grade for this subject will be 0. The evaluation will be continuous, but there will exceptionally be the single evaluation option. This will be based on the requirements that the Uab has published regarding it and will consist of a single teston the same day with two sections: 1- Theory exam 50% 2- Reading comprehension exercise 35%
3- Active participation in class 15%
- Mark Levine. The Jazz Theory Book. Sher Music co. 1995.
- Enric Herrera. Teoría Musical y armonía moderna. Antoni Bosch editor. 1990
- Ken Burns. Jazz. Divisa home Video. 2001
- Geoffrey C. Ward, Jazz: A History of America’s Music. Knopf. 2000
- Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe. Miles, la autobiografía. Alba editorial. 2009
- Brian Morton, Richard Cook. The Penguin Guide to Jazz recordins. Penguin books. 1992.
- David Schiff. The Ellington Century. University of California Press.2012
- Alex Ross. El Ruido Eterno. Seix Barral. 2012
- Varios Autores. The New Real Book, vols I, II, and III. Sher Music Co. 1995
- Sammy Nestico. The Complete Arranger. Kenwood Music Co, Inc.
- Benny Green. Let’s Face the Music. Pavilion Michael Joseph. 1989
- Boris Vian. Escritos Sobre Jazz, tomos I y II. Ediciones Grech. 1981
- Ralph de Toledano. Frontiers of Jazz. Pelican Publishing Company. 1994
- Chet Baker. Las Memorias Perdidas. Mondadori, Barcelona 1999
- Rayburn Wright. Inside The Score. Kendor Music Inc. 2011
- Hal Crook. How to Improvise. Advance Music. 1991.
- Bill Dobbins. Jazz Arranging and Composing. Advance Music 1986
- Dan Morgenstern. Jazz People. Prentice Hall. 1978
- Ted Gioia. The History of Jazz. Oup Usa. 2011
- Alec Wilder. American Popular Song - The Great Innovators (1900-1950) Oxford University Press, New York 1972
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Please note that this information is provisional until 30 November 2025. You can check it through this link. To consult the language you will need to enter the CODE of the subject.
Name | Group | Language | Semester | Turn |
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(PAUL) Classroom practices | 1 | Catalan/Spanish | first semester | morning-mixed |
(TE) Theory | 1 | Catalan/Spanish | first semester | morning-mixed |