MUTH 360 - Jazz Theory II

2 hours
Covers advanced jazz and contemporary harmony and theory. These concepts apply to instrumental performance, compositional and arranging skill, music pedagogy, and overall musicianship in jazz and contemporary genres. The main elements of this course include: function and analysis of secondary dominants and interpolated IImin7 (secondary-supertonic) chords, extended dominant and the use of tritone substitution dominant chords (SubV7); modulation and temporary tonic; modal interchange concept; re-harmonization techniques and the use of non-diatonic chords and altered tensions; analysis of common idiom chord progressions with non-diatonic chords; advanced chords nomenclature; use of upper-structure (hybrid) chords and multifunctional chord structures; chromatic approach chords; non-functional harmony; jazz-minor, harmonic minor scales and modes, and advanced chord-scales. UG