- How does the jazz band create a varied collection of performance pieces?
- Does the band integrate older "standards"with newer jazz works?
- How often does the band have performances?
- What type of audience does the band garner?
- Is there a meld between classical music and jazz music?
- Where and when are improvisatory techniques used throughout the different pieces?
- How much of the music is pre-planned versus determines by purely improvisation?
As an opera singer, I hope to expand my musical horizons and find both the similarities and differences between classical music and jazz. Both have their moments of improvisation as well as pre-determined musical forms. I am excited to see how they correlate and relate to one another.
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Good start! I'd like to see you thinking more in the direction of investigating this group as a musical community with shared skills, values, etc. (and some internal diversity, too; do all members play for the same reasons?) Your research questions and eventual presentation should be oriented around these deeper issues, rather than basic data about repertoire, number of performances, or ratio of pre-composed to improvised material. That basic data is highly relevant to trying to *answer* the deeper research questions, of course, but you might consider framing your questions in terms of "why" rather than "how many," "how much", "what type"...
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