Central Arizona College

MUP 117 Jazz Choir

Credit Hours: 2
Effective Term: Fall 2010
SUN#: None
AGEC:

Credit Breakdown: 6 Labs
Times for Credit: More than 4
Grading Option: A/F
Cross-Listed:

Description: Jazz Choir, a major performance ensemble, is an auditioned group of musicians who perform vocal jazz literature for CAC and community organizations. The concerts are varied and represent a broad perspective of the American vocal jazz genre. Singers represent the college as performers in public functions throughout Arizona and at vocal jazz festivals throughout the United states, in addition to an annual spring recruitment tour. May be taken four times for credit.

Prerequisites: none

Corequisites: MUP104

Recommendations: None

Measurable Student Learning Outcomes
1. (Application Level) Demonstrate competent musical and performance skills: vocal, aural, sight-singing and ensemble. 2. (Application Level) Demonstrate basic stylistic concepts of singing vocal jazz: basic swing, ascending and descending smears, fall-offs, breath accents, horizontal and vertical accents, shake, and others. 3. (Application Level) Demonstrate control of vibrato and an understanding of how to use vibrato stylistically. 4. (Application Level) Demonstrate improvisational skills. 5. (Analysis Level) Recognize how to listen to jazz and respond correctly as an audience member through concert attendance of solo jazz concerts, viewing videos of performers, and listening to recordings of popular and jazz vocalists. 6. (Application Level) Demonstrate good microphone technique and care of sound equipment. 7. (Application Level) Demonstrate ability to perform proficiently for public concerts.
Internal/External Standards Accreditation
Students will accurately, per course rubric: 1a. Sight read jazz literature with 75% or above accuracy. 1b. Sing the correct pitches of their individual parts either individually or in a group with 95% or above accuracy. 2. Perform using the basic stylistic concepts of singing vocal jazz: basic swing, ascending and descending smears, fall-offs, breath accents, horizontal and vertical accents, shake, and others at 95% accuracy or above. 3. Produce a pure tone that blends with their section as well as with the choir with 95% accuracy or above. 4. Perform a scat solo at 85% accuracy or above. 5. Respond appropriately as an audience member when attending a jazz performance at 95% accuracy or above. 6. Manipulate the microphone with professionalism and set up and break down the sound equipment with 95% accuracy or above. 7. Relate to the audience and perform with good stage presence with 90% accuracy or above.