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課程名稱

爵士音樂
Jazz

開課學期

107-1

授課對象

授課教師

陳人彥

課號

Music3018

課程識別碼

144E31800

班次

學分

3.0

全/半年

半年

必/選修

上課時間

星期二7,8,9(14:20~17:20)

上課地點

樂學館106

備註

初選不開放。本課程以英語授課。有興趣修課學生應向教課老師提供英文修課動機說明。A13:文學與藝術、世界文明
總人數上限：16人

Ceiba 課程網頁

http://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/1071jazz

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課程概述

This course examines the history, social significance, and musical style of jazz. It focuses particularly on two of the central periods in the development of jazz: the Swing era (ca. 1930-45), which saw the rise of the “big bands” and the emergence of jazz as a great national popular music of America; and the Bebop era (ca. 1945-60), during which jazz became self-consciously difficult in the manner of so-called art music. We will immerse ourselves in intensive description of the music in order to understand better the extraordinary fusion of spontaneous creativity and careful intellectual structuring that characterizes jazz. We will also give in-depth consideration to socio-cultural dimensions of the music such as racial identity, American identity, and the impact of economic and technological factors.

課程目標

- to gain an appreciation of the richness and variety of jazz through close study of a representative selection of pieces
- to think critically about basic aspects of musical creation and production such as composition, arrangement, improvisation, and the function(s) of notation
- to develop an awareness of the complex interrelationships between the arts and cultural/ideological attitudes concerning society, property, etc.

課程要求

Students should expect to spend six to nine hours per week listening intensively to the assigned jazz selections, completing the assigned readings, and preparing to offer detailed spoken comments during the weekly discussion sections on the assigned discussion questions.

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評量方式
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No.	項目	百分比	說明
1.	discussion section participation	55%	attendance, contribution to discussions
2.	listening quizzes	45%	total of three over the course of the semester

課程進度

週次	日期	單元主題
第1週	9/11	Introduction basic issues in listening to and analyzing jazz music and in investigating its cultural contexts discussion section: no discussion section this week
第2週	9/18	Early Jazz: Beginnings the origins of jazz music in New Orleans; stylistic precursors of the music (ragtime, blues, minstrelsy) discussion section: music as the expression of a specific set of socio-cultural circumstances
第3週	9/25	Early Jazz: Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Bix Beiderbecke eminent composers and soloists in early jazz history discussion section: jazz: composed, improvised, or both?
第4週	10/02	Benny Goodman, “The King of Swing” the birth of “Swing” music; the rise of jazz as a great national popular music in the context of the Depression discussion section: what is the meaning of “popular music”?
第5週	10/09	Duke Ellington the concept of jazz composition; the aspirations of jazz music towards art discussion section: the relationship of jazz and art music
第6週	10/16	Louis Armstrong jazz as a great soloistic improvisional art discussion section: what makes a great jazz improvisation?
第7週	10/23	The Rise of Kansas City Jazz: Count Basie the distinctive style of Kansas City jazz; the paradigmatic Swing band and its musical characteristics discussion section: the essence of Swing rhythm
第8週	10/30	Billie Holiday jazz as vocal art; jazz as personal-autobiographical expression discussion section: can jazz express autobiography?
第9週	11/06	Swing Saxophonists: Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Ben Webster the saxophone as representative of jazz music, and its central practitioners of the Swing Era discussion section: what are the different paradigms of saxophone playing?
第10週	11/13	Swing Pianists: Earl Hines, Art Tatum, Teddy Wilson jazz as individualistic art; the interrelation of the individual and the social in jazz discussion section: is jazz individual, social, or both?
第11週	11/20	Bebop, Modern Jazz, and Charlie Parker (“Bird”) reactions against commercial jazz; jazz as a self-consciously artistic music; the musical style of bebop discussion section: are jazz and commercialism incompatible?
第12週	11/27	Bebop Pianists: Bud Powell, Oscar Peterson, Thelonious Monk, Bill bebop and solo jazz music discussion section: how do Swing solos and bebop solos differ?
第13週	12/04	Bebop Saxophonists: Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane the representative jazz instrument in the context of bebop discussion section: how do Swing saxophonism and bebop saxophonism differ?
第14週	12/11	Miles Davis and the Rise of “Cool” Jazz the alternative to “hot” jazz; the rise of modal jazz; jazz and world music discussion section: the internationalization of jazz
第15週	12/18	Free Jazz: Ornette Coleman the “liberation” of jazz from standard forms; “structureless” jazz discussion section: jazz and structure (or the lack thereof)
第16週	12/25	Recent Developments major developments in jazz of the late 20th century discussion section: jazz as an endlessly diverse cultural phenomenon