Improvisational Music Ensemble
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Overview
Subject area
MUS
Catalog Number
26012
Course Title
Improvisational Music Ensemble
Department(s)
Description
A performance ensemble focusing on repertory and compositional/improvisational approaches outside of mainstream and traditional jazz idioms. Emphasis will be placed on free improvisation and nontonal improvisational methods. Music by artists who represent these approaches, such as Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy, Charles Mingus, members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Music, John Coltrane, Anthony Braxton, Cecil Taylor and Sun Ra, will be studied and performed.
Academic Career
Undergraduate
Liberal Arts
No
Credits
Minimum Units
2
Maximum Units
2
Academic Progress Units
2
Repeat For Credit
Yes
Total Completions Allowed
8
Components
Name
Lecture
Hours
2
Requisites
028330