(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.