Advanced Pan-American Jazz Performance

Department - PERF
Offered - Spring
Course number - PSIM-P421

Course work will focus on the performance and development of advanced rhythmic vocabulary within the jazz idiom employing the following genre styles: Afro-Cuban; South American (Brazilian, Argentinian, Venezuelan, Peruvian); Iberian (Spanish) rhythms such as flamenco and its various palos; and Spanish folklore rhythms such as jota aragoneza, sevillana, txalaparta, and its odd time signatures. Performance will include compositions by instructor as well as other composers and students. Students will participate as leaders, performers, and composers/arrangers, and will have a chance to experiment with grooves created from the vocabulary studied.

Credits: 2
Course Chair: Carl Riley
Prerequisites: Written approval of course instructor
Required of: None
Electable by: All