Visit the Registration & Auditions page to see updated audition information and requirements. Results of Lab Band auditions are posted on the Canvas page at the start of the week. Students may self-enroll in the Canvas course. The faculty may at any time make changes for musical or administrative reasons.
Visit the Registration & Auditions page to see updated audition information and requirements.
1. Auditions are held during registration each long semester. Sign up sheets are posted online or on the respective faculty member's door or bulletin board.
2. A student who registers late must make arrangements with appropriate faculty to schedule an audition.
3. Students may audition for lab band on more than one instrument.
Any current UNT student is welcome to audition for Lab Band. Students who major in Jazz Studies are required to audition each long semester.
In all, an undergraduate Jazz Studies major (Instrumental Performance and Arranging) must earn a minimum of six credits in Lab Band (in addition to two credits in another lab). Four Lab Band credits must be earned during long (fall or spring) semesters. The remaining two may be earned from summer Lab Band.
Lab bands are 19-23-piece instrumental ensembles typically comprised of five trumpets, five trombones, five saxophones (aattb), five rhythm (piano, guitar, bass, drums, vocals), and in some case, 1 string player. All bands rehearse in Lab West (282), Lab East (263), or 258.
To continue past the second semester of (MUJS 3620) into the third semester (MUJS 4610), the student must first earn a semester grade of A in MUJS 3620. Recommendations from the student’s assigned teaching fellow instructor are also encouraged.
See the "Semester-by-Semester Plans" section of https://music.unt.edu/advising for a current Jazz Instrumental Performance degree plan.
The most current recital guidelines are linked here in this PDF. Please note that the MUJS 4720 capstone recital requires program notes, which must be reviewed by the student's major professor(s) before they are distributed. Recital programs are also required.
Undergraduate students may enroll in MUJS 2360 before completing MUJS 1132 if they:
All Jazz Studies majors are expected to audition for a jazz lab every long semester they are enrolled. All students who perform in a jazz lab must be appropriately enrolled in that lab. See Jazz Laboratories, section 10.
Undergraduate students who are receiving a scholarship are required to participate in a lab.
