TOPIC STUDY: JAZZ STUDIES - 2023/4

Module Overview

The purpose of this module is to build on the knowledge and skills you have acquired in FHEQ 4 in research methods, discussion, and writing about music, in order to study the history, culture, and techniques of jazz. The module provides further foundation for historical and analytical study at FHEQ 6.

Module provider

Music & Media

Module Leader

BARHAM Jeremy (Music & Med)

Number of Credits: 15

ECTS Credits: 7.5

Framework: FHEQ Level 5

Module cap (Maximum number of students): N/A

Module Availability

Semester 2

Prerequisites / Co-requisites

None for Music and Tonmeister students

Module content

Indicative content includes:

• Exploration of the history and socio-cultural contexts of jazz


• Analysis of jazz: techniques, structure, performance


• Developing skills in jazz transcription


• Researching scholarly, and other, literature on jazz


• Guided listening to jazz repertoire


• Informal presentations on selected jazz recordings and performances

Assessment pattern

Alternative Assessment

None

Assessment Strategy

The assessment strategy is designed to provide you with the opportunity to demonstrate your knowledge and understanding of the issues surrounding academic study of music through engagement with selected work(s) and their contexts.

Thus, the summative assessment for this module consists of:

1. A coursework essay with a maximum length of 3000 words (100%), to be submitted by the Monday of week 12. (Addresses learning outcomes 1–6.)

Formative assessment

An essay plan and bibliography, to be submitted by the Monday of week 7.

Feedback

Detailed written feedback will be provided within three weeks of both the submission of the formative and summative assessment.

Verbal feedback will be given to contributions during class discussions as well as individual tutorials on coursework essay plans.

Module aims

• Develop your knowledge of approaches to the historical, cultural, and technical understanding of jazz
• Further develop your skills and confidence in discussing appropriate repertoires in oral and written form to a level suitable for study at FHEQ level 5.

Learning outcomes

Methods of Teaching / Learning

The learning and teaching strategy is designed to:

Develop awareness of some of the intellectual means by which understanding of music is sought and achieved, and to develop the ability to employ some of these means to inform discussion of the selected work(s). This will involve directed reading and listening, class discussion, and the formation of critical responses to secondary literature in the coursework essay. The strategy will also reinforce techniques and styles of academic writing and analysis introduced in the FHEQ 4 modules Encountering Music History, Music Project 1A, and Topic Studies 1A and B that are critical to success in FHEQ levels 5 and 6.

The learning and teaching methods include:

• Lectures, incorporating class discussions as appropriate (2 hours per week x 11 weeks)


• Tutorials to develop and discuss preparations for coursework essay


• Guided reading and listening.


• Use of SurreyLearn.

Indicated Lecture Hours (which may also include seminars, tutorials, workshops and other contact time) are approximate and may include in-class tests where one or more of these are an assessment on the module. In-class tests are scheduled/organised separately to taught content and will be published on to student personal timetables, where they apply to taken modules, as soon as they are finalised by central administration. This will usually be after the initial publication of the teaching timetable for the relevant semester.

Reading list

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Programmes this module appears in

Please note that the information detailed within this record is accurate at the time of publishing and may be subject to change. This record contains information for the most up to date version of the programme / module for the 2023/4 academic year.