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This practice originated before there was a world wide web. There is a lot of sightreading material available online in the form of solo transcriptions. The music library is a source for solo transcriptions and etudes.
We know that lab band parts may not exactly resemble solo transcriptions or etudes, but both can enable you to practice your sightreading skills. Denton is located within the jurisdiction of local , American Federation of Musicians.
Some students opt to join. For information, see their website: www. Students are expected to check their EagleConnect email address regularly, and to use it for all UNT-related emails. Important messages from UNT and from your professors will reach you this way. You are responsible for being aware of information sent to you at your UNT email address.
We use the Canvas class entitled Division of Jazz Studies to circulate information to current Jazz Studies majors, faculty, and staff. Be sure you can see this in your Canvas dashboard. Email the chair or administrative coordinator to be added to it.
Lab bands are or piece instrumental ensembles comprised of five trumpets, five trombones, five saxophones aattb , and five rhythm piano, guitar, bass, drums, sometimes vocals. Students who major in Jazz Studies are required to audition each long semester. In all, an undergraduate Jazz Studies major Instrumental Performance and Arranging must earn a minimum of six credits in Lab Band in addition to two credits in another lab.
Four Lab Band credits must be earned during long fall or spring semesters. The remaining two may be earned from summer Lab Band. Graduate students majoring in Jazz Studies must complete at least one long semester fall or spring semester in Lab Band. Starting in summer , graduate students may not apply summer lab band credits to degree requirements. The two lab credits required by the master's and doctoral degrees must be earned in the fall or spring semester, and at least one of them must be in a lab band for instrumentalists or vocal lab for vocalists.
Undergraduate and graduate students who are receiving a scholarship are required to participate in a lab. Auditions are held during registration each long semester. Sign up sheets are posted online or on the respective faculty member's door or bulletin board.
A student who registers late must make arrangements with appropriate faculty to schedule an audition. Students may audition for lab band on more than one instrument.
Students who are assigned to more than one lab band on different instruments must enroll for a corresponding number of additional credits. See the administrative coordinator in the Jazz Studies Office. Evaluations are in areas of tone quality, intonation, time feel, note accuracy, and jazz conception.
Jazz Chairs Saxophone, Trumpet and Trombone : By permission only after having passed the reading audition. Evaluations are based upon improvisational skills. Guitar Auditions: Sight reading of chord symbols and single-note melodies, improvisation, and prepared chord solos.
Piano Auditions: Students should: a. Bass Auditions: Bring acoustic and electric basses if both are played. Students are evaluated on their ability to read chords symbols and notes, and on their ability to play with a good sound and feel. Drum Auditions: Students perform an initial sightreading audition and a preliminary playing audition with a Lab Band.
Auditioning by Sections: Sectional auditions are scheduled as needed to resolve placement of students in the higher bands. Determining factors for Lab Band assignments are: a. Sight reading skills. Sound color and tone quality c. Intonation d. Stylistic interpretation e. Performance evaluations from the previous semester in Lab Band continuing students f. Hours available to perform, as indicated on the student's Lab Band Information Form.
Auditioners may request performance of a prepared selection. Jazz Chair auditions are held separately. Results of Lab Band auditions are posted on the Canvas page at the start of the week.
The faculty may at any time make changes for musical or administrative reasons. Substitutes may be sent a maximum of six times during a semester three times for students who play only twice a week according to the following guidelines: 1. The substitute is qualified currently enrolled at North Texas, preferably playing in an adjacent band one higher or lower. Twenty-four hours advance notice must be given, except in the case of a verifiable illness or emergency. The music folder must be at the rehearsal.
All other absences will lower the student's semester grade. In addition, there are on- and off-campus performances scheduled for the Lab Bands throughout each semester. Attendance for these performances and related dress rehearsals is mandatory. Punctuality: Be on time for all rehearsals and performances. This means set up, warmed up, seated and ready to play. Tardiness will lower your grade. Preparation and Equipment: 1.
For rehearsals: Trumpets - Flugelhorn double, cup, harmon and plunger mutes Trombones - Cup and plunger mutes Saxophones - Soprano saxophone, flute and clarinet doubles Lead Alto must bring piccolo when needed.
Baritone Sax should have access to bass clarinet, bringing it when needed. Drums - cymbals, bass drum pedal, sticks, brushes and mallets. For performances: Appropriate dress, as determined before each performance. For sectionals: All section leaders should hold frequent sectional rehearsals. Music Folders: Charts and folders are the responsibility of each student. Music must be properly cared for and brought to all rehearsals and performances. Syndicate performances Students who are performing with Jazz Studies ensembles at the Syndicate in the University Union who are of legal drinking age may only have an alcoholic beverage after their ensemble has finished performing.
No alcoholic beverages are to be taken onto the bandstand. The guitar ensembles are some of the many diverse performing groups at UNT. In these ensembles, guitarists have the unique opportunity to rehearse and perform in a section of five or more guitars.
This helps the student focus on reading skills, ensemble blend, group articulations, comping and soloing. Currently, there are two ensembles with instrumentations of five guitars, bass and drums. The L-5 specializes in blues, rock, and electric avant-garde, and the Super primarily performs mainstream bebop. They are directed by Prof. Davy Mooney and graduate teaching fellows.
Auditions: Guitar auditions are held in Room during the days of regular registration. Specific details and sign-up sheets are posted on the bulletin board outside Room Auditions for the Electric Guitar Ensembles focus on reading single note melodic material ranging in difficulty from beginning to advanced. Smaller groups may be formed from the larger ensemble to perform classic ragtime, New Orleans jazz, cool jazz octets, etc. The ensemble meets three times weekly for one hour rehearsals.
Auditions: Members of the Jazz Repertory Ensemble are selected on the basis of their lab band auditions. Interest in JRE should be checked on the lab band audition form. The Zebras - a contemporary jazz repertory ensemble including: horns, keyboardist, pianist, guitarist, bassist, drummer, percussionist, and vocalist s. Zebras meet twice weekly for 75 and performs two or three times each semester. Auditions: Interested players should perform their primary jazz lab audition and check "Zebras" on their audition sheet.
This audition will measure the student's understanding of the idiom. Emphasis is on sight-reading of intricate note- passages and improvisational skills. All four ensembles are open to any registered UNT student regardless of major , on the basis of live auditions held at the beginning of each semester. Indicate your preference to be considered for this group on the Lab Band audition form. Jazz trombone ensemble, directed by a graduate teaching fellow. Rhythm section players may earn a lab credit for playing in U-Tubes.
Jazz Chamber Music is an extension of Jazz Improvisation. Small performance groups are formed from among those students enrolled in the class. Students involved in small groups also meet in forum twice weekly. Small Group Forum provides an opportunity for groups to perform for an audience of their peers. A different group plays each time, followed by a period of discussion. A second required performance is arranged according to venue availability.
In addition, the forum class has visiting artists each fall semester, and a recording project each spring semester. Recording projects are done at a professional Denton-based recording studio. Combos are coached on a part-time basis. Attendance at Jazz Forums is required for all members of small jazz groups.
Requests for excused absences must be submitted by E-mail. Eligibility Small Groups Prerequisites Small groups 1. Undergraduate students must have passed Improv II with a grade of a C or higher. Graduate students must be qualified for the Master of Music in Jazz Studies. Students are placed in groups by faculty members in collaboration with the Coordinator of Jazz Chamber Music. This class is not currently offered. It was designed to focus on specific topics that relate to the rhythm section in a small jazz group.
Some of these are: group communication, individual instrument roles piano and guitar comping techniques, bass lines, whether to "break it up", etc. There are four or five groups formed for the class usually composed of piano, guitar, bass and drums that rehearse and perform for critique and videotaping. Admission in the course is by consent of the instructors.
Jazz Strings Ensemble meets twice per week and is directed by Prof. Scott Tixier. Rhythm section players may earn a lab credit for playing in Jazz Strings Ensemble. So What 2. Little Sunflower 3. Freddie Freeloader 4. Sonnymoon For Two 5. Blue Monk 6. Now's The Time 7. Blues By Five 8. Satin Doll 9. Pent Up House Thomas Take The "A" Train Moonlight In Vermont Eighty One. MUJS All Of Me Four Anthropology Oleo Solar Tune Up What's New West Coast Blues Watch What Happens Blue Bossa All The Things You Are Ladybird Unit Seven Misty Autumn Leaves Don't Get Around Much Anymore.
Yesterdays Four Brothers Triste If I Were A Bell Someday My Prince Will Come Like Someone In Love I Thought About You Darn That Dream Airegin Line For Lyons Wave The Song Is You My Romance Witch Hunt Footprints Infant Eyes Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum Miyako Speak No Evil Wild Flower Adam's Apple Children Of The Night Virgo Juju Yes Or No Nefertiti Black Nile Night Dream This Is For Albert El Gaucho Epistrophy I Mean You In Walked Bud Introspection Monk's Mood Off Minor Round Minor Ruby My Dear Thelonious Well, You Needn't.
In order to be exempted from MUJS Jazz Keyboard Fundamentals , you must demonstrate your proficiency by comping through a variety of common jazz progressions using the following voicing structures: - Rooted voicings: with 2 notes, 3 notes, and 4 notes - Rootless voicings: with 2 notes and 3 notes only.
You must also be able to play all major, minor, augmented, and diminished root position triads and their inversions, as well as all root position seventh chords major, minor, dominant, half diminished, fully diminished. Use Appendices A and B pages to practice the voicings through a variety of common jazz chord progressions.
If you miss a chord, simply keep going in tempo…do not stop and try to correct yourself. Play the exercise as if it were a real-world performance situation. You will be given an extra minute to practice the progression and then you may try again. If you fail the exercise again, you may be asked to take MUJS The instructor reserves the right to make final placement decisions based on overall performance in the exam.
Applied guitar students and those enrolled in MUJS or and guitar ensembles are expected to participate in this vital contribution to the excellence of the program. Meetings will coincide with jazz guitar departmental times. These instances are governed by policies set forth in the course syllabus. A student who must be absent from a class for verified professional reasons is entitled to be excused from any punitive action such as penalization of grade for non-attendance; 2. The student may be held responsible for any material presented in any class for which there is a professional excuse; 3.
Any assignments due during the time of absence must be turned in either in advance or at a time after return designated by the instructor; 4. If a test is scheduled during an excused absence, the student is entitled to a make-up examination to be administered at the convenience of the instructor; 5.
The student must notify the instructor of an anticipated absence in advance of class and establish any make-up examination or assignment dates, if appropriate. Verification of the absence shall consist of a letter of explanation signed and dated by the sponsoring professor and the division chair, a copy of which shall be given the instructor.
This policy is supported by the resolution passed by the University Undergraduate Curriculum Committee on 6 May , which states that programs may require "a minimum grade per course for a major and its supporting field.
Students are responsible for the prerequisites of each course for which they enroll, and for being prepared for placement, continuation and proficiency examinations, as listed in this handbook, and in the Undergraduate Catalog. The Jazz Studies program awards performance and arranging scholarships on a competitive basis. These awards also reduce the out-of-state tuition to in-state rates. Applications with references must be sent in and an audition must be performed in one of three ways: 1.
In person - a live audition may be performed on one of the College of Music audition dates that are published each year. By appointment - a live audition may be performed during a visit to campus at a time other than the published audition dates by contacting the Instructor. By recording.
See the Jazz Studies website for the specific requirements for each instrument. For complete information on scholarships and appropriate application forms visit the College of Music Website www. Note: Scholarship renewals depend upon a Grade Point Average of 3. See Vocal Jazz at North Texas Jazz Studies majors must also declare one of the instruments listed above as their area of applied concentration.
In these private lessons, the primary focus begins with classical study except for Jazz Guitar, which is jazz for all four years. Two semester hours of applied credit per semester is awarded for successful study on the concentration instrument. One hour of credit for applied study identifies a secondary instrument. Generally, the Applied Concentration Proficiency Examination must be passed covering requirements through the second year of study.
This exam may be attempted only after eight credits of study have been completed. Jazz guitar departmentals Fridays - p. Vocal Jazz Forum Fridays - p.
All Jazz Studies majors are expected to audition for a jazz lab every long semester they are enrolled. All students who perform in a jazz lab must be appropriately enrolled in that lab. See Jazz Laboratories, section Students are encouraged to complete this requirement within the freshman year.
Completing the courses with a minimum grade of B can satisfy the requirement. A student may attempt to pass one or more of these courses by exam. Exams are offered the week before the first day of class, both long semesters. Note: Jazz Fundamentals I is offered only via the internet.
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Doctoral degree requirements. Financial information. Campus resources. Contacts at UNT. Degree programs listed by academic unit. Toulouse Graduate School. Brint Ryan College of Business. In his free time, he enjoys good coffee and a nice round of golf. Additionally, the jazz band has been selected as a main stage performer at the Jazz Education Network Conference, was a national finalist in the Swing Central Jazz Competition in conjunction with the Savannah Music Festival, and was the national commended winner of the Foundation for Music Education's Mark of Excellence National Jazz Honors and named the National winners in and Woolery won a Perry R.
Woolery previously served as the Director of Jazz Bands at Texas Woman's University and taught in their music education department. In addition, he served as the camp director of Bocal Majority Double Reed Camps and has extensive experience administering music camps throughout the United States. As a professional public address announcer, he can be heard every UNT home football game announcing pregame and halftime for the Green Brigade Marching Band and the North Texas Dancers.
Jesse Woolery resides with his wife and 3 children on their hobby farm west of Denton, TX. Devin Guillotte - Color Guard Director. Guillotte is very excited to be joining The Pride of Bronco Country for the school year.
As the color guard director Mr. Guillotte is originally from Lafayette, LA and is a proud alumni of Lafayette High School where he first started out as a member of their color guard.
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