The focus will be on the harmonic and melodic vocabulary and the Jazz repertoire of the ‘60s and later, including Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea. Topics may include: advanced transcriptions of John Coltrane, Clifford Brown and Bill Evans; composition and dictation of harmonic progressions using Arnold Schoenberg’s Theory of Harmony; atonal sight-singing using Lars Edlund’s Modus Novus; analysis and dictation of the chord voicings of Scriabin, Debussy, Ravel and Bartok.