Jazzchor der HfMT "Body and Soul"

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Subject according curriculum

Choir

Teachers

Sophia Oster , Erek Siebel

Scope

Wednesdays, 16:30 - 18:00 Final concert @ JazzHall: 5.5.2026

Room

Mendelssohn-Saal

Duration

1.5 Semesterwochenstunden

Description

- Exercises for body awareness, intonation and timbre
- Exercises with and without sheet music
- African-American traditions of musical learning
- Small group work (quartet to octet), (Barbershop Quartet/Andrews Sisters)
- Divisional phases in which participants can also learn and intensify vocal improvisation and piano accompaniment of their own choice
- Intensive work on rhythm and "swingfeel" through exercises and a specially selected repertoire
- Lyrical and subtext studies - a new look at the language of Afro-American jazz and blues

Musical program:
- Arrangements by Darmon Meader, Gene Purling...
- Big band transcriptions for choir, scat vocabulary and improvisation (collective and solo)
- A journey from spiritual to blues to swing - contemporary composers (John Kelly...) and "originals" by choir members

Credits

2 Creditpoints

Comments

Registration at erek.siebel@hfmt-hamburg.de

Modules

Kernmodul 1 Cembalo, Kernmodul 1 Gitarre, Kernmodul 1 Klavier, Kernmodul 1 Orgel, Kernmodul 2 Klavier, Kernmodul 3 Klavier, Künstlerisches Wahlmodul Instrumente 1, Wahlmodul freie Wahl (alle Studiengänge)