MUSIC 411

Free Improvisation/Modern Jazz Composition I

A&H

Prerequisites

No prerequisites

Description

Guides students through the process of experimentation while discovering and developing musical originality and striving for innovations in jazz. Students address conceptual approaches to non-idiomatic group improvisation and original composition that incorporates and fosters improvisation, and explore techniques in generating and developing building blocks of musical material and form.

CEC Data

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