(Dr. Stephen R. Anderson)

MUSIC 145 JAZZ HISTORY

Course Schedule, Fall 2015

August 18: Course Introduction / HW: Download Course Syllabus and Schedule; test audio website

August 20: Elements of Music and American Music Overview / Read pp. 3-18; Music Notation A9-A17

August 25: Elements of Music and American Music Overview / Read pp. 26-55

August 27: The Blues / Read pp. 22-25

September 1: Early Jazz, New Orleans, Chicago, and New York / Read pp. 57-74

September 3: Early Jazz, New Orleans, Chicago, and New York / Read pp. 97-117

September 8: Harlem Stride and Boogie Woogie / Read pp. 85-87; 188-190; 141-142

September 10: Catch Up Day

September 15: EXAM 1

September 17: Pre-Swing Era Large Bands / Sweet Bands, Hot Jazz, and Cotton Club / Read pp. 77-95

September 22: Swing Era Big Bands / Read pp. 123-163

September 24: Important Soloists / Later Big Bands Cont’ / Read pp. 165-199

September 29: Singers 177-185; 333-337

October 1: Bebop / Read pp. 207-232; also “Three Elements of Bebop” on Sakai site

October 6: Bebop continued

October 8: Cubop / Read pp. 337-342

October 13: EXAM 2

October 15: FALL BREAK – NO CLASS

October 20: Hard Bop / Other Players in the 50s and 60s / Read pp. 245-257

October 22: Cool and Modal / Lennie Tristano, Miles Davis, Gil Evans, Kind of Blue / Read pp. 237-244; 269-271

October 27: Refined Sophisticated / West Coast Jazz / The Bossa Nova Craze / Read pp. 235-244; 342-345

October 29: John Coltrane / Read pp. 286-292

November 3: Monk and Mingus / Read pp. 259-267

November 5: The Bill Evans Trio / The Second Great Miles Quintet / Read pp. 277-285; 292-301

DUE: ESSAY-MUSICAL ANALYSIS (by 11:59pm)

November 10: The Avant Garde Movement and Free Jazz / Read pp. 307-325

November 12: EXAM 3

November 17: Fusion and ECM / Read pp. 347-371

November 19: Modern Jazz / Read pp. 380-401

November 24: Modern Jazz

November 26: THANKSGIVING BREAK – NO CLASS

December 1: Modern Jazz / DUE: LAST DAY TO TURN IN CONCERT REPORTS (5pm)

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10 AT 12 NOON:

EXAM 4 (FINAL EXAM) (HANES 121)

*The final exam will be

comprehensive, comprising all

exam review material from

previous exams, however the

listening identification will only

include audio from the final unit.