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课程名称：蓝调：理解与演奏一种美国艺术形式 课程概述：蓝调是美国的艺术形式，同时也是爵士乐中最重要的音乐形式。虽然蓝调有其他形式的范式如8小节或16小节，本课程重点关注12小节蓝调的不同表现。早期爵士蓝调、摇摆蓝调、比博普蓝调、调式蓝调和后比博普蓝调之间存在显著差异。每种类型都有其独特的和声结构、旋律词汇及相应的即兴技巧。尽管爵士表演实践的其他方面在风格上不断变化，蓝调却始终保持其身份和表现力，并持续对爵士的和声和旋律结构产生深远影响。 这门为期七周的课程探讨了蓝调的重要方面、蓝调即兴演奏、基本的键盘纹理以及爵士和声和旋律的结构。课程主题包括：（1）蓝调进行；（2）蓝调与其他音阶；（3）即兴演奏工具等。本课程还将涵盖有价值的理论概念，使学生掌握爵士即兴演奏的艺术。每个主题将从实践的角度介绍，明确目标是提高学生的即兴技巧。爵士即兴演奏基于自发性、创造力和自我表达，同时也需要自我控制和秩序。独特的教学方法通过与不同乐器演奏者进行一对一的音乐互动来增强课程中介绍的许多概念，并实现课程目标。 课程大纲： 1. **蓝调进行 – 理论与实践**：聚焦蓝调的基础，研究其历史、创新和和声结构。 2. **蓝调音阶**：研究蓝调音阶以及爵士节奏和蓝调旋律的基础。 3. **键盘实现**：介绍引导音的概念及其与可逆对位法的关系，深入探讨四和弦与五和弦的构造和功能。 4. **“鸟”蓝调及其他蓝调进行**：分析三首爵士标准曲目的和声进行，并讨论实践技巧。 5. **即兴演奏工具**：分析三首爵士标准曲目，探讨三全音替代及五度音阶在即兴中的运用。 6. **即兴演奏蓝调 – 第一部分**：演示已讨论的即兴技巧，并提供现场乐手的观察和伴奏音轨。 7. **即兴演奏蓝调 – 第二部分**：探讨即兴中的调式分类和音阶模式，继续讨论五度音阶的应用。
Name:Blues Progressions – Theory and Practice
Description:Lesson 1 focuses on foundational aspects of the blues, examining its history, innovation, and evolving harmonic structure. At the end of this lecture, students should have a firm understanding of the harmonic structure of the basic, generic, and minor blues forms, as well as a familiarity with the A A’ B phrase-structure of the blues.
Name:Blues Scales
Description:Lesson 2 dives into what makes the blues tick, beginning with an examination of the blues scale and the basics of jazz rhythms and blues riffs. Students will then explore call and response techniques and application of the blues scale in improvisation through demonstration with a live musician.
Name:Keyboard Realization
Description:Lesson 3 introduces the concept of guide tones and its association with invertible counterpoint. Four-part and five-part chords are discussed in detail by exploring their construction and function, as well as techniques to facilitate good voice-leading between chords using chordal inversions.
Name:“Bird” Blues and Other Blues Progressions
Description:In lesson 4 students analyze harmonic progressions from 3 jazz standards: “Now’s The Time,” “Billie’s Bounce,” and “Blues For Alice.” Practice techniques are discussed, including ear-training strategies, rhythmic displacement, and voice-leading exercises.
Name:Improvisational Tools
Description:Lesson 5 introduces 3 more jazz standards for analysis: “Mr. PC,” “Mr. Day,” and “Isotope.” Tritone substitutions are examined, and pentatonic scale as tools in improvisation are introduced through exploration of their construction, typical voicings, and voice-leading principles.
Name:Improvising the Blues – Part 1
Description:Lesson 6 centers around the demonstration of improvisational techniques discussed thus far, including motivic development, guide-tone lines, and chordal arpeggiation. Observation of live Eastman musicians, as well as play-along tracks provided by the rhythm section, allow the student to imitate, assimilate, and apply the techniques discussed in the course.
Name:Improvising the Blues – Part 2
Description:Lesson 7 explores modal categories and scalar patterns in improvisation, in addition to continued discussion on pentatonics. As in the previous lesson, live musicians demonstrate key concepts and principles presented in the lecture, with additional play-along tracks provided for the student to explore concepts on their own.
The blues is an American art form and the most important musical form in jazz. Although there are other formal paradigms of the blues, such as 8-bar or 16-bar, this course focuses on different incarnations of the 12-bar blues. There are considerable differences between Early Jazz blues, Swing blues, Bebop blues, Modal blues, and Post Bop blues. Each type has its unique harmonic syntax, melodic vocabulary and, associated with them, improvisational techniques. While other aspects of jazz performance practice have been constantly changing from one stylistic convention to another, the blues has never lost its identity and expressive power, and continues to exert a powerful influence on the harmonic and melodic syntax of jazz. This seven-week course explores important aspects of the blues, blues improvisation, basic keyboard textures, jazz harmonic and melodic syntax. Topics include: (1) Blues Progressions; (2) Blues and Other Scales; (3) Improvisational Tools, and others. This course will also cover valuable theoretical concepts enabling the student to master the art of jazz improvisation. Each topic will be introduced from a practical perspective with the clearly stated goal: to improve one’s improvisational skills. Jazz improvisation is rooted in spontaneity, creativity, self-expression and, at the same time, self-control and order. A unique pedagogical approach based on a one-to-one musical interaction conducted with different instrumentalists will help to reinforce many of the concepts introduced in this course and realize its stated objectives.
