Analysis of Music I


Tipus: Obligatòria (OB)

Matèria: Theory and history, Notation, transcription and interpretation

ECTS: 3

Hores presencials lectives: 45
Altres hores presencials: 5
Hores per treballs dirigits (no presencials): 30
Hores per estudi i aprenentatge autònom: 10

Departament: Creació i Teoria Musical

Competències que es desenvolupen en l’assignatura

Transversal competences

CT8: Develop ideas and arguments in a reasoned and critical manner.

CT17: Contribute through professional activity to raising social awareness of the importance of cultural heritage, its impact in different fields, and its capacity to generate meaningful values.

General competences

CG3: Produce and correctly interpret the graphic notation of musical texts.

CG11: Be familiar with a broad and updated repertoire, centred on one’s specialty but open to other traditions. Recognise the stylistic features that characterise this repertoire and be able to describe them clearly and comprehensively.

CG15: Have extensive knowledge of the most representative works of historical and analytical music literature.

Specific Competences

CO1: Know the main repertoires of the Western tradition and of other musical cultures, and acquire the ability to fully assess the expressive, syntactic, and sonic aspects of the corresponding works.

CO2: Acquire the necessary training to recognise and assess, both aurally and intellectually, different types of musical and sonic structures.

CO3: Analytically interpret the construction of musical works in all structural aspects and levels that constitute them.

CO10: Verbally convey a well‑structured theoretical, analytical, aesthetic, and critical judgement, beyond its application to the strictly compositional field.

DI2: Know the musical structure of works from different repertoires of the Western tradition and other musical cultures, with the ability to assess their syntactic and sonic aspects.

DI4: Analytically understand the creation, notation, and performance of musical works from a global perspective.

DI10: Verbally convey well‑structured, concrete, and comprehensive musical thoughts of a theoretical, analytical, aesthetic, and critical nature.

IN6: Argue and verbally express one’s points of view on performance, as well as respond to the challenge of facilitating the understanding of the musical work.

MU1: Know the musical structure of works from different repertoires of the Western tradition and others, with the ability to fully assess their syntactic and sonic aspects.

MU5: Know musical sources and the tools for accessing them, as well as the techniques necessary for their dissemination.

MU6: Know the scientific research methods specific to the field and their applications.

MU7: Acquire critical capacity to assess the products of musical activity from different periods from a perspective that integrates artistic, historical, and social aspects.

Resultats de l’aprenentatge (objectius generals)

  1. Deepen the differentiation between the two levels of analysis: descriptive analysis and explanatory analysis.
  2. Recognise and differentiate the various structural elements and their interdependence at the level of musical form and language.
  3. Develop an attitude and methodology for studying and approaching the musical work from an analytical and musical perspective.
  4. Be able to interpret the results of an analytical graph and produce a critical and comparative commentary.
  5. Learn the basic concepts of Schenkerian analysis and apply them to one’s own analytical practice.
  6. Deepen the connection between analytical reasoning and musical intuition present in listening and performance.
  7. Value the need for theoretical reflection and research in order to build one’s own critical sense regarding music and knowledge in general.

Continguts

Techniques of structural reduction and Schenkerian analysis.. Procedures ofharmonic and melodic prolongation.. Les tècniques formals en la música modal major/menor. Les estructures escalars modals expandides. Formal techniques in major/minor modal music. Expanded modal scalar structures. Interdependent relationships between the different “regions” that make up tonal harmonic structure and their gravitational, dynamic, and balancing functions. Form as structural expansion and prolongation. Expanded and complex harmonic structures and developments. The idea of “global tonality”. . Structural and formal analysis of works from different periods of tonal music without extensive chromatic content. Observation and analysis of the various elements and procedures used in the development of the works.

Metodologia d’impartició

The teaching–learning methodology includes lecture sessions (topic presentations), debate and discussion sessions, group‑work sessions, and student presentations. Autonomous work includes analysis of works, readings, and written assignments, individually or in groups.

Sistemes d’avaluació

The assessment system is continuous assessment, based on diagnostic evaluation and formalised through summative assessment leading to the final grade. Continuous assessment is carried out through different evaluation records derived from specific assessment activities such as class participation and work, presentation of assignments in class, completion of assignments, compositions, analyses and/or readings outside class, submission of written work, or written, oral, or listening examinations.