Outcomes:
Improvise in a jazz style, integrating understanding of applicable jazz theory.
Infuse, independently, the understanding of the muscial text into a personal musical performance.
Identify the elements of music and apply these to create a musical product.
Model individual vocal techniques and apply these to create or show a musical product.
Outcomes:
Listen and respond as a vocal jazz performer when singing jazz.
Listen to jazz as a jazz performer when not personally performing the music.
Independently analyze vocal jazz music in real time while making or listening to the music.
Listen to performances of vocal jazz music and individually or with assistance develop and apply critical criteria to use in critical evaluation of one's own work and other's work.
Synthesize the knowledge and implementation of the skills, techniques and attitudes necessary for successful ensemble performance.
Outcomes:
Aurally distinguish the different eras, genres, styles and feels of vocal jazz through listening to and/or performing the representative music.
Explore jazz music and its performers and educators and their influence in the world.
Evaluate the degree of influence that vocal jazz has had on other types of music with an emphasis on the music of Canada and Saskatchewan, and assess possible careers in vocal jazz and music