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JAZZ1602: Jazz Performance 2
2025 unit information
This foundational unit continues the introduction of core principles and practices commenced in Jazz Performance 1. Through instrument-specific Principal Study, students will continue to develop essential technical skills for advanced instrumental performance. They will learn to identify, analyse, apply, and evaluate key processes for mastering and manipulating rhythmic, harmonic, and melodic material for improvisation. Students will explore how to apply these processes within common jazz repertoire and performance settings.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Sydney Conservatorium of Music
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Jazz |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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JAZZ1601 |
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Corequisites:
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None |
| Prohibitions:
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JAZZ1007 |
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Demonstrate an increasing understanding and application of foundational instrument-specific technical principles and skills
- LO2. Demonstrate an increasing understanding and application of foundational processes for learning and manipulating rhythmic, harmonic and melodic material for improvisation
- LO3. Demonstrate increasing fluency with major, melodic minor, diminished, diminished blues, and whole-tone scales and their associated applications.
- LO4. Effectively and creatively apply an expanding range of instrumental techniques and improvisational skills to jazz repertoire and performance contexts, demonstrating proficiency appropriate to a first-year level.
- LO5. Demonstrate an increasing ability to effectively reflect on and evaluate individual learning processes.
Unit availability
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Semester 1 2025
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Normal day | Sydney |
Outline unavailable
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Semester 2 2025
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Normal day | Sydney |
Outline unavailable
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