Jazz history

Between August 28 and October 10, visit radio station WGUC 90.9 at http://www.wguc.org/ and its JAZZ on HD PLAYLIST once a week for five weeks. With each visit, select one of the titles, copy it, and paste it into a YouTube search window to discover whether this is a standard jazz tune or a newly composed work. Research the artist or group and place that person or group into the appropriate historical context, classical or contemporary. Listen attentively to the example in its entirety at least twice. Listen for the various instrumental and human timbres and how they interact. Identify the jazz type (genre) that most appropriately fits the music.

The WGUC Now Playing jazz playlist can be accessed via the HOME bar. You can then go to either the PLAYLIST or LISTEN bar and listen live to the Now Playing jazz selection. If you check the Jazz Playlist for the day, you can look ahead to a selection you think you’d like to hear, and then tune in when that selection is scheduled to be “On Air.”

                For each selection you choose, you will compose a journal entry. Format: Each entry must be typed using an 11- or 12-pt standard font, single-spaced, with one-inch margins all around. Document sources; place all directly quoted material in double quotation marks. Each entry should include:

(1) Name of the composer

(2) Title of the work

(3) Name of the ensemble, vocal or instrumental soloists (as applicable)

(4) Date of composition and the jazz period to which the work belongs, using your textbook to help you determine the appropriate period

(5) Historical detail about the work, e.g., the occasion for which it was written, for whom, where it was first performed

(6) An extended paragraph (8–10 sentences) summarizing the work as you perceived it intellectually and emotionally. If you liked or disliked the selection, explain what added to or subtracted from your satisfaction. Use fundamental music terms to help you complete this section.

(7) To enhance your journal, add to one or more entries a photograph or image of artwork borrowed from an online source; a bit of poetry (yours or that of a recognized poet); a quote from literature, Scripture, a newspaper story or a magazine article. Remember to acknowledge sources from which you borrow or quote materials.