Jazz Keyboard (MFA)

These requirements are applicable to the following areas of study: Jazz Bass, Jazz Guitar, Jazz Keyboard, Jazz Drums, Jazz Trumpet, Jazz Trombone, Jazz Reeds, and Jazz Performance.

• MLSN601 Hour Lesson as assigned (4 classes)

• MCMP610 Jazz Composition

• MCMP500+ upper-level composition elective

• MPRF603 Harmonic Improvisation

• MBLE618 Jazz Faculty Ensemble (4 classes)

• MBLE617 Jazz Student Ensemble (4 classes)

• MFOR507 Jazz Forum (2 classes)

• ONE class chosen from:

  • MHST550 Stylists & Innovators 1961–Now

  • MHST571 Jazz and Urban Experimentalism

  • MHST601 Improvisation: Uses and Lineage

• MHST/MTHY500+ upper-level history, theory or analysis elective

• MBLE501 Beginning African Music Ensemble

• FOUR units of coursework in Art, Dance, Film/Video, Theater, Creative Writing, or Digital Arts (IDAR)

• MFOR600 Artists-in-Residence Week (2 classes)

• Winter Session (2 units of coursework taken in January)

• MPRF590 Mid-Residence Recital

• MPRF690 Graduation Recital

• Electives (to fulfill 60-unit degree requirement)