M-JP-EBI

Practical Classes

4

Flexible group size. 4 to 12 students. Larger or smaller very occasionally possible in consultation with faculty.

30

4 students: 40 minutes per class, 5 students: 45 minutes per class, 6 students: 50 minutes per class, 7 students: 55 minutes per class, 8 to 12 students: 65 minutes per class. Group sizes below 5 or above 12 with different class times are sometimes possible after consultation with faculty. Class time will not be adjusted after the start of the academic year due to any change in group size.

32 hours

79 hours

Admitted to year 2 Jazz & Pop or, after audition, Composition for Film and Theatre. This subject can only be followed on-campus.

NOTE that selecting one elective band is compulsory in the second year Jazz & Pop. In years 2, 3 and 4 students Jazz & Pop can select up to two elective bands per year in total.

See Competencies Matrix.

Acquiring and developing ensemble playing skills in repertoire of the relevant style.
Improving stage performance.

This module is related to the main subject module.

Study subjects will be selected based on the students' level of development, which means there may be considerable differences between their level upon completion of the course.
Evaluating and learning from group improvisations.
Developing improvisation skills based on formal principles.
Developing intuitive improvisation skills.
Harmonic improvisation: improvising tonally over jazz standards, without consideration of the chords within these tonalities.
Non-harmonic improvisation: learning to improvise without prior planning and especially without using harmonic principles.
Composition: students write two or more ensemble pieces, one freely chosen, and one multiple-section piece with partly omitted chord changes, rhythm and tempo.
Composing and rehearsing a concert program.

Band rehearsals and performances.

Handed out by the instructor (where applicable).

Generating internal publicity for the band's concerts, and selecting repertoire.

Assessment by the band instructor at the end of each semester.

General criteria: creativity, improvisation, sheet music, sense of harmony, rhythmic idioms, timing and tempo control, musical interaction, intonation, reading skills, sound, interpretation, style awareness, form principles, tonal balance, preparation, accompaniment, active participation and attitude.
Harmonic and non-harmonic improvisation.
Using solos and band improvisations to tell stories with a build-up and subsequent release of tension.
Improvisation based on formal principles.
Writing the pieces described in the program; submitting these in sheet music with the different parts transposed where necessary.
Performing a circa 45-minute band concert.

The student has completed this module if being awarded a minimum grade of 5.5 at the end of the second semester.

Written assessment by the instructor at the end of both semesters. Assessment at the end of the autumn semester is formative and expressed in terms of satisfactory/unsatisfactory. It indicates a student's progress in this module. No ECs are awarded and there is no resit. Modules can only be absolved, and ECs awarded, after the end of the spring semester. The end-of-semester assessments comprise evaluations of students' performance during the rehearsals and public performances.

See the Education and Assessment Plan.