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Stefanie Buscher

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Ken Burns Jazz ufmue

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  • Stefanie Buscher on 24 Sep 15
     
    Jazz packet from PBS that corresponds with the Ken Burns Jazz Series. Includes a "Listening to Jazz" worksheet for responding to jazz music.
s61white

Jazz | A Note from Ken Burns | Ken Burns - 1 views

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#UFMUE jazz Music education American History

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  • They're the three most beautiful things Americans have ever created.
    • s61white
      s61white on 11 Feb 19
       
      Jazz is one of the greatest things Americans will be remembered for? That is a pretty weighty statement/
  • Jazz has offered a precise prism through which so much of American history can be seen — it is a curious and unusually objective witness to the 20th Century. It is the story of two world wars and a devastating Depression — the soundtrack that helped Americans get through the worst of times.
  • nd Jazz is also a story about race and race relations and prejudice, about minstrelsy and Jim Crow, lynchings and civil rights. Jazz explores the uniquely American paradox that our greatest art form was created by those who have had the peculiar experience of being unfree in our supposedly free land
    • s61white
      s61white on 11 Feb 19
       
      I tend to agree with this statement. So much of the jazz idioms are also found in the gospel music of African churches.
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  • In a filmed interview for a documentary history of our national pastime we made several years ago, the writer and essayist Gerald Early told us that "when they study our civilization two thousand years from now, there will only be three things that Americans will be known for: the Constitution, baseball and jazz music
s61white

Jazz | Music 101 | Ken Burns - 0 views

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#UFMUE jazz Music education American History

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  • "Composition is slowed down improvisation," and both disciplines deal with the same challenge — how to organize and present ideas in a coherent fashion.
  • One of the most common misconceptions about jazz is that it is spun out of the air in a totally impromptu manner. This notion exists because many small jazz groups do not read music when they play. The truth of the matter is that what those musicians are actually doing is spontaneously creating a very sophisticated form of theme and variations
  • The framework is flexible so that the soloists may shorten or lengthen their improvisations depending on the inspiration of the moment. The other players, then, have a responsibility to react to what has preceded them
    • s61white
      s61white on 11 Feb 19
       
      Creativity in music research offers a great deal of insight on this idea in improvisation that can be applied to more idioms than jazz.
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  • To many, composed music and improvised music seem to be opposites, but in jazz, they merge in a unique fashion.
  • But improvisation is not the be all and end all of jazz. Composers such as Duke Ellington and Eddie Sauter wrote, on occasion, jazz compositions practically devoid of improvisation. But the real challenge comes when a composer integrates improvisation into a
hero1338

PBS - JAZZ A Film By Ken Burns: Classroom - 0 views

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ufmue music education resources jazz

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  • hero1338 on 28 Sep 15
     
    This website offers resources for teaching about jazz music in the general music classroom. The lesson plans and activities are based on the PBS documentary "Jazz: A Film By Ken Burns" and specifically designed for grades K-5 or 6-12.
jasnovak9

PBS - JAZZ A Film By Ken Burns: Jazz Lounge - 0 views

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jazz pbs music education teaching resources

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  • jasnovak9 on 26 Sep 15
     
    This is a great historical resource for jazz music. Includes biographies, decade-by-decade history, and an interactive jazz performing section.
Jason Longtin

Jazz - a film by Ken Burns - 0 views

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ufmue jazz education

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  • Juanita Knight on 05 Apr 14
     
    This is a great website for learning about the history and development of Jazz in the United States. It includes geography, musician biographies, information about musical instruments, and more!
  • Jason Longtin on 07 Apr 14
     
    PBS offers an amazing companion site to the 2000 Ken Burns documentary, Jazz.
s61white

Jazz | Home | Ken Burns - 0 views

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#UFMUE jazz Music education American History

shared by s61white on 11 Feb 19 - No Cached
  • s61white on 11 Feb 19
     
    This site offers a 10 part series of 75 interviews and over 500 pieces of music on the growth and development of jazz. Begins in the New Orleans and takes the viewer through to Lincoln Gardens, Southside Chicago.
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