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

Course Schedule