Coeur d’Alene High School 2019-2020

Course Objective

Jazz Band, 0 Period (6:40 – 7:30)

*TUESDAY through FRIDAY ONLY*

Jim Phillips, Director

1. Syllabus of the year – Performances (more may be added)
See website calendar for most up to date performance schedule

2. Literature
We will play a variety of jazz music throughout the course of the year, focusing on the goals and standards set by the National Association for Music Education (NAfME).

National Standards for Music Education

The Core Music Standards are all about Music Literacy. The standards emphasize conceptual understanding in areas that reflect the actual processes in which musicians engage. The standards cultivate a student’s ability to carry out the three Artistic Processes of

• Creating,
• Performing, and
• Responding.

These are the processes that musicians have followed for generations, even as they connect through music to their selves and their societies. And isn’t competence in Creating, Performing, and Responding what we really want for our students?

Students need to have experience in creating, to be successful musicians and to be successful 21^st century citizens.

Students need to perform – as singers, as instrumentalists, and in their lives and careers.

Students need to respond to music, as well as to their culture, their community, and their colleagues.

These standards provide teachers with frameworks that closely match the unique goals of their specialized classes. The standards are presented in a grade-by-grade sequence from pre-K through grade 8, and discrete strands address common high-school music classes, such as Ensembles and Music Composition/Theory. The standards are provided in “strands” that represent the principal ways music instruction is delivered in the United States.

We will focus on the process and procedure of learning how to read jazz chord symbols, an elementary understanding of jazz harmony and an appreciation of a number of styles of jazz music.

We will also be adhering to the Idaho and National Content Standards for Humanities: Music.  You can see those standards here:

3. Additional materials
Each student will be required to bring with them to class: an instrument, either their own or one the school is supplying for them; music which they have prepared for the rehearsal in a rehearsal folder; a #2 pencil for marking the music; instrument specific supplies i.e. mutes (straight, cup, harmon, bucket, plunger), reeds, valve oil, slide cream, etc.

4. Listening Experience JAZZ BAND

Three jazz genres each semester (FAMOUS JAZZ MUSICIANS)
20 points each (fifteen per semester total)

I will provide the list of pieces. We will be studying specific recordings by specific performers, so be sure you are listening to the right person if you go to you tube or iTunes. We will listening to and studying each piece together in class. You will have to log in to SKYWARD to access each weekly assignment (you can do this during class with either you own device or a school Chromebook, when available). There will be ten questions each week.  Selections from these 15 pieces will be on the semester final exam.

SEMESTER ONE 
A. Saxophone Players
1. Wayne Shorter - Orbits
2. Bob Mintzer - Papa Lips
3. Chris Potter - Imaginary Cities
4. Joe Lovano - Cross Culture
5. Harold Land - The Fox

6. Dress Standards
For Jazz Band performances, attire is All Black (Black Long sleeve shirts and Black Pants. Women may choose to wear a long sleeve black dress), BLACK SOCKS AND BLACK SHOES.

7. Prerequisites
Students must be enrolled and participating in at least one regularly scheduled CHS music class in order to participate in zero hour Jazz Band.