The Afro-Caribbean Jazz Ensemble

Course Number
ENJZ-420
Description

The Afro-Caribbean Jazz Ensemble is an advanced instrumental ensemble designed for students to study the jazz leaders and composers from the smaller Caribbean Islands: Antilles, Haiti, and Trinidad etc. In this series of supervised lessons and rehearsals, students gain the professional experience of critically listening, learning, and preparing a presentation for performance. The students are required to perform an hour-long concert of the music studied at the end of the semester. This course emphasizes hearing and expressing your musical ideas with stylistic integrity, as well asa melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic accuracy.

Credits
1
Prerequisites
Written approval of course chair
Required Of
None
Electable By
All B.M. and P.D. students
Semesters Offered
Fall, Spring
Location
Boston
Department
ENS
Course Chair
Tyrone Chase
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