MUTH-M309-001 Modern Arranging 2 Credits SYLLABUS – Spring 2020 TTH 11:00 AM- 11:50 AM Gordon Towell DME [email protected] phone 865 2164 Office Hours will be posted at my door, CM 245 This course is the study of jazz composition and arranging with the emphasis on writing for large jazz ensembles. Prerequisites: MUJZ M107, M108, or permission of instructor Class meeting location TR -11:00 a.m. rm. 240 Text: Instrumental Jazz Arranging by Mike Tomaro and John Wilson (Required) Publisher: Hal Leonard $49.99 (US) ISBN: 9781423452744 Inside the Score by Rayburn Wright. (Reference) Jazz Arranging and Composing by Bill Dobbins (Reference) Publisher: Advance Music (June 1986) Language: English Price $41.60 ISBN-10: 3892210063 ISBN-13: 978-3892210061 Course Goals and Course Objectives: As a part of the Jazz Studies curriculum, this class is focused on the techniques and jazz Students will learn about voicing techniques, instrumental transpositions, rhythm section chart preparation, contrapuntal writing, forms, motifs, and more arranging and compositional techniques Expected Student Learning Outcomes: Students will demonstrate understanding of arranging and composing techniques for jazz ensembles through realizing writing assignments and having them performed. The final project will be a full composition/arrangement for large jazz ensemble. The jazz ensemble will record this. Grading System: Individual grades of A-E will assigned to each arranging project according to quality, neatness, timeliness and appropriateness to the jazz idiom. All assigned projects will be averaged together to form the final grade. Use of finale, Sibelius and/or musiscore is highly recommended Attendance Philosophy: Attendance is required. Classes will alternate between groups meetings to discuss general concepts, procedures and lab sessions to address individual needs on the various projects assigned during the course of the semester. Grades and Attendance: Missing two class sessions (group or individual) will result in a single grade lower to be applied to the final grade. Subsequent absences will lower the grade one letter for each absence. Saxophone Assignment 25 Trombone Assignment 25 Trumpet Assignment 25 Chart Outline 25 Head 50 Interlude/Send Off 50 Solo Section, Background 50 Shout Section 50 Sax Soli 50 Parts/Score 100 Recording 150 Total 600 points Grading Scale: 540 – 600 = A, 480 – 539 = B, 420 – 479 = C, 380 – 419 = D, 0 – 379 = E IMPORTANT: As a part of the Jazz Studies curriculum, this class is focused on the techniques and performance practices associated with the performance of jazz. It is important that those taking this class are well grounded in these aspects of music. It is highly recommended that students enrolled in this course have experience playing in a jazz ensemble as well as been involved with the study of jazz improvisation and piano before undertaking the study of jazz arranging. The music written during the course of this class must be performed, recorded, and turned in with a copy of the score and transposed parts on the date due to receive full credit for the assignment. Late work will be downgraded one half-letter grade for each day or portion thereof that the assignment is late. Responsibility to set up times and places for arrangements to be recorded rests on the individual student. It is a good idea to coordinate the sessions with the other members of the class. There are a limited number of student musicians capable of recording the arrangements in a reasonable amount of time, so working with other people in the class saves time and trouble. Week 1 Chord and Voicing review Saxophones/Basic four-part writing/Supersax and Drop 2 Week 2 Trombones Week 3 Trumpets/Rhythm Section Week 4 Project Start Week 5 Chart Outline Due Week 6 Introduction Due Week 7 Head Due Week 8 Interlude/Send off Due Week 9 Solo Section and backgrounds due Week 10-11 Shout Section Due Week 12 Sax Soli Week 13 Sax Soli Due Week 14 Parts/Score Due Week 15 Recordings Jazz Arranging Listening List: ARTIST ALBUM TITLE ARRANGER Chart Count Basie Straight Ahead Sammy Nestico Hayburner, Basie Straight Ahead Village Vanguard Orchestra Lickety Split Jim McNeely Maria Schneider Orchestra Evanessence Schneider Thad Jones/ Mel Lewis Mosaic Reissues Thad Jones 3&1, Us, ABC Blues, (Solid State) Kids Are Pretty People Mel Lewis/Bob Brookmeyer Live at the Village Brookmeyer Hello & Goodbye Vanguard First Love Song Miles Davis, Gil Evans Miles Ahead Gil Evans Gerry Mulligan Jazz Masters 36 Brookmeyer, Mulligan McFarland Kenny Wheeler Music for Large & Wheeler Small Ensembles Vince Mendoza/WDR Sketches Mendoza w/Dave Liebman Village Vanguard Orch Thad Jones Legacy Thad Jones new recordings of classics Mel Lewis 20 Years at the Finnegan’s C Jam Village Vanguard Blues Mel Lewis To You Thad Jones ABC Blues Kenny Werner Duke Ellington And His Mother Ellington, Strayhorn Called Him Bill Dial and Oats Brassworks Rich DeRosa John Faddis Remembrances Carlos Franzetti “Little” Big Band Art Pepper ….Plus 11 Marty Paitch “Little” Big Band Holober/Gotham City Thought Trains Holober Holober/Stockholm JO Live in Malmo Holober ARTIST ALBUM TITLE ARRANGER DETAILS Maria Schneider Coming About Schneider Schneider Allegresse Schneider Schneider Days of Wine and Roses Schneider Jim McNeely/WDR East Coast Blowout McNeely/Scofield Stockholm JO Sound Bites McNeely w/Dick Oats Stockholm JO Jigsaw McNeely Bob Mintzer Art of The Big Band Mintzer Gil Evans Giants of Jazz Evans Collection Porgy & Bess Joe Henderson Big Band Henderson, Bob Belden Count Basie The Essential Don Sebesky I Remember Bill – Sebesky A Tribute to Bill Evans Bill Holman Further adventures Holman w/Strings Dutch Jazz Orchestra Portrait of A Silk Thread Strayhorn Bob Florence Senedipity 18 Florence Tom Harrell Time’s Mirror Harrell Darcy James Argue Mike Holober Academic Integrity: All work you do for this class is expected to be your own, and academic dishonesty (including, but not limited to, plagiarism on papers or cheating on exams) will be punished. A summary of the University’s definitions and procedures concerning academic integrity can be found in the Undergraduate Bulletin (pp. 46-47 of the 2003-5 Bulletin). If you are uncertain how to use and cite the work of others within your own work, consult reference works such as Kate L. Turabain, A Manual for Written Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, 6th ed., revised by John Grossman and Alice Bennett, Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966), or see instructor. Special Accommodations: If you have a disability and wish to receive accommodations, please contact Disability Services at 504-865-2990. If you wish to receive test accommodations (e.g., extended test time), you will need to give the course instructor an official Accommodation Form from Disability Services. The Office of Disability Services is located in Marquette Hall 112. 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