CONDITIONS OF ADMISSION: Audition
PREREQUISITES: Knowledge of scales and basic ability to read music
PERMISSION REQUIRED: Yes

SYNOPSIS OF COURSE CONTENT: The student will be presented with the materials used in jazz performance. They include:

1. The scales used in jazz
2. Chords and arpeggios
3. Chord progressions
4. Solos
5. Jazz Pedagogy

Students shall perform each meeting. Listening to jazz styles is done during class and in extra-class assignments.

ASSIGNMENTS: Practice materials that are presented
EXAMINATIONS: See below (Grade)
TERM PAPER: None
GRADE TO BE BASED ON: Evaluation of performance during lessons.

Before registering, first-time students must audition and obtain the permission of the instructor. A further audition may be required to continue applied music in subsequent semesters. Auditions are generally held during orientation and the first week of classes. For information about times and sign-up sheets, please contact the Music Office at (660-3300). For auditions at other times, students may contact individual instructors to make arrangements.

It is the student's responsibility to add the appropriate course and section (once approval has been obtained) BEFORE THE END OF DROP/ADD. If you have a problem, contact the Director of Undergraduate Studies (660-3331) immediately.

A supplemental fee is charged. For the spring of 1996 the scale was $290 per term for one-hour weekly lessons and $145 per term for half-hour weekly lessons. These may change. Interested students are advised to contact the Bursar's Office for current information. The fee is waived for music majors for instruction on their first instrument or in voice. It is not refundable after the end of drop/add.

Credit is awarded at the level of a quarter course for half-hour lessons (080-087) and a half course for hour lessons (090-097). The courses may be repeated for credit. Sophomores, juniors and seniors possessing an exceptional technical and interpretative command of a musical medium may be allowed to register for independent study in musical performance (180, 182, 184) at a full credit. These involve taking hour lessons and performing a half-length recital at the end of the term or a full-length recital at the end of two successive terms. (In the latter case, students will have to give a brief performance before a jury at the end of the first term.)

Use of the practice facilities in the Mary Duke Biddle Music Building is free for students enrolled at Duke. For others there is a charge (information available from the Music Department Office).