Suggested repertoire Year 11 Year 12 Jazz



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TECHNICAL WORK – YEAR 11



Technical requirements

Scales should be sung unaccompanied from memory in four different keys suited to the student’s vocal range using solfa or scat syllables. The starting note will be sounded.
Scales to the 8ve

Scales to be in straight or swung 8th notes (legato) onlyto the 8ve, with the exception of the Chromatic scale which should be sung to the sharpened 5th.


  • Major (Ionian) (crotchet=100)

  • Major pentatonic (crotchet=80)

  • Minor pentatonic (crotchet=80)

  • Aeolian/natural minor (crotchet=100)

  • Blues (crotchet=80)

  • Dorian (crotchet=100)

  • Mixolydian (crotchet=100)

  • Chromatic (up to sharpened 5th) (crotchet=60)


Arpeggios

The tonic (and chord) will be sounded. Arpeggios should be sung from memory in straight or swung quavers to the 7th

Tempo: crotchet= 80



  • Major 7th

  • Minor 7th

  • Dominant 7th


Dynamicsall scales and arpeggios

  • p, mp, mf, f, crescendo, decrescendo


Improvisation – compulsory Jazz activity as appropriate to repertoire

  • demonstrate improvisation skills over Blues form

  • ad-libbing over chorus

  • melodic improvisation in verse over song where appropriate



SUGGESTED TECHNICAL WORK – YEAR 12



Technical requirements

Scales should be sung unaccompanied from memory in four different keys suited to the student’s vocal range using solfa or scat syllables. The starting note will be sounded.
Scales to the 9th

All scales should be sung in straight or swung 8th notes (legato) only to the 9th with the exception of the Blues scale, which should be sung to the flattened 10th and the chromatic scale which is sung to the 8ve


  • Major (Ionian) (crotchet=120)

  • Dorian (crotchet=120)

  • Mixolydian (crotchet =120)

  • Aeolian/natural minor (crotchet=120)

  • Jazz minor (crotchet=120)

  • Major pentatonic (crotchet=100)

  • Minor pentatonic (crotchet=100)

  • Blues to flat 10th (crotchet=100)



  • Chromatic to the 8ve


Arpeggios

The tonic (and chord) will be sounded. Arpeggios should be sung from memory in straight or swung quavers to the 10th. Tempo: crotchet=100


  • Major 7th

  • minor 7th

  • Dominant 7th


Dynamics – all scales and arpeggios

  • p, mp, mf, f, crescendo, decrescendo


Improvisation – compulsory Jazz activity as appropriate to repertoire

  • demonstrate improvisation skills over Blues form

  • adlibbing over chorus

  • melodic improvisation in verse over song where appropriate


TECHNICAL WORK – SUGGESTED REPERTOIRE


Scat singing and vocalise

Anita Wardell

Al Jarreau

Bobby McFerrin

Eddie Jefferson

Ella Fitzgerald

Jon Hendricks

Kurt Elling

Lambert, Hendricks and Ross

Mark Murphy

Sarah Vaughan
Jazz and Contemporary

Jim Snidero Jazz Conceptions

Aebersold Guide for Jazz and Scat Vocalists

Bob Stoloff Rhythm Etudes

Seth Riggs Singing for the Stars

Anne Peckham Contemporary Singer

Michelle Weir Vocal Improvisations

Trinity Exams Rock School


NB: Some studies from Western Art Music are recommended for Jazz and Contemporary singers as well.
Ear training: Jazz and Contemporary (improvisation)

(Intervals: improvisation: phrasing: ornamentation: syncopation)

Bob Stoloff: Diatonic exercises and the rest of the book!!

Jim Snidero: tracks 1–6 (maybe 7):


  • to understand chord progressions

  • jazz phrasing

Aebersold: Guide to Jazz and Scat Vocalists

  • practical procedures for memorising chord progression

  • soloing

  • ear training

  • intervals

Phonation: Jazz/Contemporary

(Vowels: consonants: articulation: scat: onset: ornamentation: flexibility: arpeggios)

Jazz Conception Jim Snidero: Groove Blues, Amen, A Doll–Diction, Scat – all have written scat syllables

Michele Weir Vocal Improvisation: scat syllables that pertain to particular rhythms
Registration: Jazz/Contemporary

(Passagio: tilt: range)

Seth Riggs Singing for the Stars: Ex 1 – Bubbling and trilling Patterns: working through ‘the mix’ (passagio)

Anne Peckham Contemporary Singer – various exercises

Rock School Syllabus


Breathing: Jazz/Contemporary (more phrasing)

(Phrasing: alignment: breath support: messa di voce: flexibility)

Jazz Singers Handbook: Sections 5 and 6 – Colouring melody and phrasing

Rhythm Etudes, Bob Stoloff – 1–4

Counting Exercises


Vocal resonance: Jazz/Contemporary

(Tone colour: vowels)

Listening to particular ‘styled’ singers



SUGGESTED REPERTOIRE – YEAR 11


Students are required to prepare six songs, with at least one from each of the four Jazz styles: Ballad, Blues, Jazz Standard and Latin.
Ballad

Body and Soul

Lover Man

Misty

My Funny Valentine
Blues

Goin’ to Chicago

Now’s the Time

Stormy Monday

Why don’t cha do right?
Jazz standard

All of Me

Autumn Leaves

Bye Bye Blackbird

Don’t Get Around Much Anymore

God Bless the Child

Honeysuckle Rose

How High the Moon

I Got Rhythm

Impressions

It Don’t Mean a Thing (if it ain’t got that swing)

Lullaby of Birdland

Softly As in a Morning Sunrise

Stormy Weather

Summertime

Take the A-Train

Time after Time

What Is This Thing Called Love?
Latin

How Insensitive

Meditation

One Note Samba

Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars

Slightly Out of Tune – Desifinado
Additional

All of Me

Alright, OK You Win

AMEB Contemporary and Popular Music (CPM) Step 2

AMEB CPM Step 3

Autumn Leaves

But Not for Me

Feelin’ Good

Fly Me to the Moon

Georgia on my Mind

Honeysuckle Rose

How Insensitive

It Had To Be You

It’s Only a Papermoon

Love is Here to Stay

Nice Work if You Can Get it

Now’s the time (with lyrics: based on the Eddie Jefferson version)

September Song

Stormy Monday

Sugar (with lyrics)

Sweet Georgia Brown

The Nearness of You

SUGGESTED REPERTOIRE – YEAR 12


Students are required to prepare six songs, with at least one from each of the four Jazz styles: Ballad, Blues, Jazz Standard and Latin.
Ballad

Body and Soul

Lover Man

Misty

My Funny Valentine
Blues

Goin’ to Chicago

Now’s the Time

Stormy Monday

Why don’t cha do right?
Jazz standard

All of Me

Autumn Leaves

Bye Bye Blackbird

Don’t Get Around Much Anymore

God Bless the Child

Honeysuckle Rose

How High the Moon

I Got Rhythm

Impressions

It Don’t Mean a Thing (if it ain’t got that swing)

Softly As in a Morning Sunrise

Stormy Weather

Summertime

Take the A-Train

Time after Time

What Is This Thing Called Love?
Latin

How Insensitive

Meditation

One Note Samba

Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars
Additional

A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square

Almost Like Being in Love

Beyond the Sea

Blue Skies

Corcovado

Cry Me a River

Dindi

East of the Sun and West of the Moon

Lullaby of Birdland

Misty

Moanin’ (with lyrics: refer to versions recorded by Sarah Vaughan and Anita Wardell)

My Funny Valentine

On the Street Where You Live

One Note Samba

Round Midnight

Route 66

So Nice (Summer Samba)

Softly as in a Morning Sunrise

Someone to Watch Over Me

Stardust

Take the A-Train

You Don’t Know What Love is




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