- General objectives of the specialization:
Students acquire professional knowledge and general music literacy, which makes them suitable for performing their professional qualifications.
General tasks of the specialization::
Explain to the student the play mode required for high-end musical expression and professional instrument management, and to make sure that the playing modes and the musical concept are coherent; develop the musical abilities of the students, their rhythm sensation, their music, musical memory, creative talent and performances; to develop the ability of thinking, self-directed spiritual control, the need for constant self-cultivation; explain the context of musical instrument and musical performance; describe the main styles of the instrument’s literature; make it receptive to the reception of contemporary music; learn how to play instrumental music , improve the moral characteristics of the students (will, endurance, etc.), aesthetic sense, shape your personality.
- Content of the course
Admission requirements
Classical
- Major and harmonic minor scales in various tempi and playing techniques (staccato, legato) in the following major keys and the parallel minor keys: C, G, D, A, E, B, F sharp, F, B flat, E flat, A flat, D flat.
- 2 etude
- Performance of one piece
Jazz
Solistic performance of three popular jazz standards (theme-improvisation-theme) of different tempo (slow, medium, fast) and character (ballad, Latin, swing, pair and impair metrum). Piano accompaniment is provided by the department, but the candidate has to bring the notes – suitable for piano accompaniment.
Performance of a part (1 or 2 periods) of a noted down improvisation, not deviating from the sheet music. It can only be of a notable saxophone artist’s performance (Parker, Gordon, Coltrane, Brecker, etc). A copy of the sheet music is to be submitted to the examination committee. (If the applicant cannot get hold of such a sheet music, materials are available for borrowing and photocopying at the Saxophone Sub-Department of the Jazz Department).
Blues improvisation with simple harmonies in various tempos and in 3 keys ( C major, F major, B flat major)
Playing about 10 jazz standards in original harmonisation from memory. (Presentation of themes with stylistic phrasing, with improvisation)
Sight reading of a motive possibly with stylistic phrasing, given at the exam
- Breakdown in Semesters of the Course , Control method
- semester:
Technical training; Scales: C, F, G, Bb Major and Moll; the breakdown of their diatonic harmony, race with classical and jazz phrasion; parallel to the scales from the J. Viola school to learning etudes; Style exercises, music training.
Bob Mintzer: 14 Blues and Funk Etudes 1-5. etude; Charlie Parker’s Omnibook volume 6-8 performs 3-4 transcripts with the original recording;Developing Improvement Skills; Recognizing and learning patterns of simpler swing and bebop motifs based on transcripts and their own ideas (II-V-I, III-VI-II-V, etc.); the play of these patterns is sequentially sequentially; Repertoire knowledge: 10 simpler standards, Blues
2.semester:
Technical training; Scales: D, Eb, A, Ab, and moll; the breakdown of their diatonic harmony, race with classical and jazz phrasion; parallel to the scales from the J. Viola school to learning etudes; Style exercises, music training.
Bob Mintzer: 14 Blues and Funk Etudes 6-10. etude; Charlie Parker Omnibook volume 6-8 performing pieces; Preparation and presentation of 4 complete transcripts along with the original recording; Developing Improvement Skills; the elaboration of harmonic changes in standard numbers with modal and altered scales, the recognition of simple non-cadence harmonies after hearing – the improvisation of the major and moll blues in every tone. Repertoire knowledge: 10 simpler standards, Blues
3.semester:
Technical training; scales: E, Db, H, Gb major and moll; the breakdown of their diatonic harmony, race with classical and jazz phrasion; parallel to the scales from the J. Viola school to learning etudes; Style exercises, music training.
Bob Mintzer: 14 Blues and Funk Etudes 11-14. etude; Charlie Parker Omnibook volume 6-8 performing pieces; Preparation and presentation of 4 complete transcripts along with the original recording; Developing Improvement Skills; cadences of harmony with substitutions (III-bIII-II-bII-I etc.); bound, unimproved improvisation on given harmonic strings, standard play (so-called “leg-toy”), simpler standards in twelve sounds Repertoire knowledge: 10 standard and blues
- semester:
Technical training; Scales: F #, Cb, C # major and moll; the breakdown of their diatonic harmony, race with classical and jazz phrasion; parallel to the scales from the J. Viola school to learning etudes; Style exercises, music training.
Bob Mintzer: 14 Jazz and Funk Etudes 1-5. etude; Charlie Parker Omnibook volume 8-10 performing pieces; Preparation and presentation of 4 complete transcripts along with the original recording; Developing Improvement Skills; knowledge of quartos (sus) harmony, incorporation of pentatonic scales, motivational play; substitution of pentatones into different blues harmonics; improvisational exercises with rhythmic constraints (eg motive starts from a specific place within the stroke); the improvisation is structured with shorter (5-6 loud), varied rhythmic melodies.
Repertoire knowledge: 10 pieces of heavier harmonization with standard, modern blues
5-6. semester:
Technical training; chromatic play of scale exercises; the play of the given patterns is based on the chromatic and sound scale, the voices of various chords, and the rotation and reflection of these motifs;
the modern jazz chord and scale set – axis system; Style Exercises, Music Training;
Bob Mintzer: 14 Jazz and Funk Etudes 6-10. etude; Charlie Parker Omnibook volume 8-10 performing pieces; Preparation and presentation of 4 complete transcripts along with the original recording;
Developing Improvement Skills;
the use of technical training tools in improvisation; in-out playing, standards play in all tones
Repertoire knowledge: 10 pieces of heavier rhythm standard
7-8. semester:
Technical training; Chromatic play of chord and scale exercises; rhythmically complicated patterns play on the chromatic and full-scale scale, the voices of various chords, and the rotation and reflection of these motifs; Style exercises, music training.
Bob Mintzer: 14 Jazz and Funk Etudes 11-14. etude; Charlie Parker Omni book volume 8-10 performing pieces; Preparation and presentation of 4 complete transcripts along with the original recording; Developing Improvement Skills; knowledge of the different trends of modern jazz, improvisations in odd metrums; transform and play standards in unmatched metrics. Repertoire knowledge: 10 pieces of heavier harmonization and rhythmic standards
Compulsory literature
- Joseph Viola: The Technique of the Saxophone Vol. II.
- Charlie Parker: Omnibook
- Bob Mintzer: 14 Blues and Funk Etudes
- Bob Mintzer: 14 Jazz and Funk Etudes
- Jamey Aebersold: Play Along series
Recommended literature
- Hal Crook: How to Improvise
- Jerry Bergonzi: Inside Improvisation Series Vol. 1 – 6
- Gary Campbell: Triad Pairs for Jazz
- Gary Campbell: Expansions