ATS3900 Jazz composition: From Tin Pan Alley to today
Faculty of Arts
ATS3900 Jazz composition: From Tin Pan Alley to today is a level 3, 6-credit-point, undergraduate unit from the Faculty of Arts. It isn't offered in 2020. It has no prerequisites.
- Credit points
- 6
- Offered in 2020
- Not offered
- Workload
- 144 hours
- per semester
The 2027 handbook has no page for ATS3900. This is its 2020 entry, the latest one.
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Requisites
Before ATS3900
No prerequisites or corequisites besides the enrolment rules below.
After ATS3900
No unit lists ATS3900 as a prerequisite in the 2020 handbook.
Enrolment rules
Overview
This unit explores historical and contemporary jazz compositional methodologies. By undertaking listening tasks and score analysis of works by seminal jazz artists, students examine composition concepts pertaining to a variety of ensembles. Following, students apply learned concepts to the composition of musical works, developing original approaches to jazz composition and arranging. In-class performance workshops provide students with practical experience and feedback.
Offerings in 2020
The 2020 handbook lists no offerings for ATS3900.
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
Understand historical and contemporary jazz compositional elements and arranging styles for large and non-traditional ensembles;
- 2
Critically evaluate, analyse and discuss contemporary jazz compositions and arrangements for a variety of ensembles from written score and audio media;
- 3
Apply learned arranging and compositional concepts to the formulation and development of musical works.
Workload and teaching
Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.
Contacts
- Chief Examiners
- Dr Jordan Murray
- Unit Coordinators
- Dr Jordan Murray
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for ATS3900?
ATS3900 has no prerequisites, but enrolment rules apply.
When is ATS3900 offered?
ATS3900 has no offerings listed in the 2020 handbook.
How much work is ATS3900?
The handbook expects about 144 hours of study across the semester. No students have rated its difficulty yet.
More details
- Credit points
- 6
- Level
- 3
- Study level
- Undergraduate
- Faculty
- Faculty of Arts
- Organisational unit
- Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music and Performance
- Type
- Coursework
- EFTSL
- 0.125
- Student contribution
- SCA Band 1
- Study abroad
- Not available
- Handbook years
- 2020