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But, crucially, this is not framed as jazz theory, or a theory of improvisation. This ensures that everyone has a sort of lingua franca when talking about harmony. These classes feature many of the principles and terminology that people associate with Berklee: analyzing progressions, figuring out the chord scales and extensions that go with them, etc. You have to take four semesters of Harmony (or test out of them) in order to graduate. Last edited by Christian Miller 09-21-2021 at 02:45 PM. There’s also a lengthy book that’s an ethnography of the Berklee jazz faculty which I will probably have to read at some point for my Master’s project. I also understand that Berklee has changed quite a bit over the years…īut I’m interested to learn more, and there are plenty on this forum who have inside knowledge here, such as David. I try to use that style wherever I feel it’s reasonable to, as it’s the international lingua Franca as I see it. There’s a few things, for instance Am7b5 not A half dim, G mixo b9b13 not G Phrygian dominant and so on that I would regard as Berklee style nomenclature.
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It does have a sort of style guide as far as I know, at least for official publications. Berklee went from being a School to a College of Music in the early 70s as I understand it. One big change that every conservatoire has had to deal with is the shift from being a school or music to a college and the need for a syllabus and quantifiable assessment mandated as I understand it by law.
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One common theme in ethnographic studies of jazz education (no this is a thing) is the tension between the teachers who are the experienced professional jazz players and the more academic side of the institutions that employ them. I could imagine them sticking more to it for theory classes perhaps than general jazz instruction. I know they publish course books.Īnd, how influential on jazz is the Berklee School? Does it really substantially effect the course of the jazz world? I thought they were simply a prestigious music college, a training camp, a place to make contacts and be recognized.Good question they do as I understand it have quite a worked out standardised syllabus but I would be interested to know how much this is the case for classes etc. I wonder does Berklee School of Music really have a codified system of jazz theory and terminology that their teachers adhere to? In other words, are their teachers told to teach a specific Berklee jazz theory system?