Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...similar are the two courses? On September 23, The Crimson reported that "two of last year's three required texts are also on the reading list this year" and that "as in past years, the new Jazz requires three papers, a midterm and a final." According to Assistant Professor of Music Graeme Boone (the professor for both courses), the new Jazz is about 90 percent equivalent to its predecessor...
WHEN I came back to campus and read in my coursebook that Music 30, "Jazz History for Non-Majors," had been magically transformed into a Core Curriculum course, I was elated...
...Core Curriculum subcommittee had decided that Core credit would be granted only to those who took the new course, Lit and Arts B-71, "Jazz: An American Music"--and not to those who had taken Music...
Explores the world of jazz, from its origins in ragtime and 19th-century band music up through recent developments such as fusion and free jazz. Emphasizes listening, and focuses on...the hearing of form, of texture and of style. In this way the masterpieces of jazz are illuminated...
Traces the overall progress of jazz music from its distant origins in Africa and the New World to current trends. Emphasizes "jazz listening," in the analysis of musical form, of the different period styles...and of the personal styles of the greatest jazzmen...