Jazz Improvisation: Practical Approaches to Grading

by Antonio J. Garcia

Overview

(Meredith Music Resource). If grading music students in any creative course for credit is a challenge, how much more difficult is it to grade something as personal and nebulous as jazz improvisation? Should students be evaluated on their creativity in soloing or simply on technical skills such as chords and scales? What are the objectives in an improv course, and how can they be graded? The instructors whose responses are presented in this book represent over 700 years of combined experience teaching jazz improvisation over 400 of those years for credit.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781574631692
Publisher:	Meredith Music
Publication date:	10/01/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	8 MB

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments iv

Foreword vii

Chapter 1 A Context for Action 1

Chapter 2 Self-Study: Grading Jazz improvisation 10

Chapter 3 Input from Survey 16

Chapter 4 Roundtable 77

Chapter 5 Personal Reflection 84

Chapter 6 Required and Dual Competencies 97

Chapter 7 A Sampling of Teaching Methods 106

Chapter 8 Disappointments and Delights 113

Chapter 9 Recommendations Towards Related Resources 124

Appendix: Improvisation and Jazz-Curricular Resources by the Author 129

About the Author 134

Credits 136