Brooke Point High – Jazz Workshop

Apr 2026 · 2nd Semester

Jazz workshop is a theory-based lecture/lab that explores compositional techniques and their application in improvisation and music literature based in an improvisatory tradition. Compositional style is approached through aural theory, written theory, music history, and technical development of their individual instrument. Students study song forms, motific development, phrase structure, chord construction, and voice leading. These compositional elements will be applied to important historical and stylistic musical vehicles that may include: Blues, Swing, Bebop, Modal, and Funk/ Fusion. This course requires students to perform scales, scale patterns, memorized phrases and melodies, and improvised melodies over given chord progressions and song forms. Students are responsible for attending one performance per semester outside of the normal school day. Schools offering course: CFHS Chorus Choral directors may place students in specially-designed and appropriate sections of chorus.