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Early Jazz, Dixieland, and Swing Big Bands
Identify collective improvisation, 12-bar blues progressions, swing rhythms, and big band arranging techniques.
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World Music, Jazz, and Global Contemporary Traditions
11th Grade · Arts · UK A-Level
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Appraise traditional world musics, jazz evolution, popular styles, and cross-cultural fusion with accurate analytical vocabulary.
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Learning standards covered
MUS-2.6General Certificate of Education Advanced Level (UK A-Level) · Music · 11th Gradetempo, metre and rhythm including syncopation and cross-rhythms at AS; additionally rubato, hemiola and more complex rhythmic patterns, e.g. polyrhythm at A level
MUS-2.7General Certificate of Education Advanced Level (UK A-Level) · Music · 11th Gradetexture including homophony, imitation and monophony at AS; additionally polyphony, fugue and canon at A level
MUS-2.10General Certificate of Education Advanced Level (UK A-Level) · Music · 11th Gradecomposer, performer and audience including stylistic conventions, appropriate performance choices e.g. ornamentation/ improvisation and technical demands at AS; additionally stylistic “fingerprints”, awareness of audience expectations and performance practice at A level