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A this discipline course at Arizona Christian University.
This course focuses on jazz vocal technique through the exploration of vocal inflections, dynamics, articulation, and interpretation. Students will learn how to improvise through rhythmic and melodic phrasing while maintaining good vocal technique and artistry. The student will apply these concepts to jazz tunes in various grooves and tempos, including ballads, medium swing, fast swing, and bossa nova. This course will also highlight important jazz artists that helped to shape the style into what we know it as today.
Engage the Course Material
Build a working understanding of jazz voice and improvisation as the course's central subject.
Apply Discipline Methods
Use the methods, vocabulary, and frameworks of the discipline to address course problems.
Connect Course Content
Connect this course's content to broader work in the discipline and related fields.
Demonstrate Course Competencies
Demonstrate the specific competencies the course is designed to develop.
A Biblical Worldview treats music as a craft worth doing well — a way of engaging beauty, skill, and worship with the seriousness any vocation deserves.
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