dc.contributor.advisor	Cash, Carla Davis
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Haugland, Ben
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Sukhina, Nataliya
dc.creator	Trapp, Brooke E
dc.date.accessioned	2020-07-10T22:50:51Z
dc.date.available	2020-07-10T22:50:51Z
dc.date.created	2020-05
dc.date.issued	2020-05-06
dc.date.submitted	May 2020
dc.date.updated	2020-07-10T22:50:51Z
dc.description.abstract	The main goal of the traditional private piano lesson setting is to build skills that will lead to fluency in important classical repertoire. Jazz music is considered to be native to American culture, but music education today is largely Euro-centric. While the study of Western music is undeniably important for developing pianists, the exclusive focus on this area leaves little time for the exploration of skills that can be presented through jazz. Plenty of resources with jazz-inspired repertoire already exist for beginning and intermediate piano students, but the knowledge and skills students can obtain from learning jazz extend beyond the ability to read notation and interpret style through visual symbols. Furthermore, American piano students should have access to a diverse education in which jazz as a cultural art form is studied alongside music of the standard European tradition. This project will attempt to fill the gap in beginning and intermediate pianists’ curriculums by offering practical solutions for classical piano teachers who have had little to no exposure to jazz music. With a focus on aural training, creativity, harmonic understanding, and confidence in improvising through the jazz idiom, the curriculum presented in this project provides a foundation for beginning piano students to engage with jazz music aurally, using their minds and ears to adopt this important style of playing and develop new ideas within this style in a creative manner.
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/2346/86206
dc.subject	piano
dc.subject	piano pedagogy
dc.subject	jazz
dc.subject	jazz piano
dc.subject	keyboard pedagogy
dc.subject	jazz pedagogy
dc.title	Jazz Pedagogy for the Classical Piano Teacher: Introducing Jazz to Beginning- and Intermediate-Level Students
dc.type	Thesis
dc.type.material	text
thesis.degree.department	Music
thesis.degree.discipline	Music
thesis.degree.grantor	Texas Tech University
thesis.degree.level	Doctoral
thesis.degree.name	Doctor of Musical Arts

Jazz Pedagogy for the Classical Piano Teacher: Introducing Jazz to Beginning- and Intermediate-Level Students

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