Latest Module Specifications
Current Academic Year 2025 - 2026
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Description Building from INVLA1, this is a module designed to provide learners with appropriate stylistic considerations for their instrument, particularly as it relates to the mainstream language of jazz performance, both in soloing and accompaniment. Learners will acquire a skill set that will be typical of that required by the contemporary performer on their instrument. The techniques under examination may be technical or stylistic. Areas which may be examined may include, but not be limited to, walking bass lines, ride cymbal time feel, solo vocabulary, ability to play in ¾, and appropriate timbral considerations. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Learning Outcomes 1. Be competent performers on their respective instruments or voice 2. Have an adequate grasp of stylistic norms for their instruments and the typical conventions of performance, particularly in the swing idiom 3. Rhythm section players will show a knowledge of the major innovators in the accompaniment tradition on their instruments 4. Melody instrument players will show a grasp of stylistic devices typical for their instrument | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml |
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Indicative Content and Learning Activities
Typical Performance Practice This module will cover various stylistic areas and techniques all of which will be relevant to typical performance practice of their voice/instrument. The techniques under examination may be technical or stylistic. Areas which may be explored may include, but not be limited to, walking bass lines, ride cymbal time feel, solo vocabulary, ability to play in ¾, and appropriate timbral considerations. Techniques discussed, depending on instrument, may include, but not be limited to such techniques as: - Developing reading skills ˆ Rhythm section techniques - Development of idiomatic soloing vocabulary - Development of good time feel in different idioms - Voice leading skills - Development of idiomatic accompaniment vocabulary - Survey of historically important developments in particular instruments or voice - Guidance towards exemplary recorded examples of techniques under discussion | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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