Competences developed in the course

Transferable skills: 

CT7: Use communication skills and constructive criticism in teamwork.  

CT8: Reasonably develop and critically evaluate ideas and arguments.  

CT12: Adapt to cultural, social and artistic changes and to advances in the professional field under competitive conditions, and select appropriate pathways for continuing professional development.  

CT17: Contribute through their professional activity to raising social awareness of the importance of cultural heritage, its impact on different spheres and its capacity to generate significant values. 

General competencies: 

CG1: To know the theoretical principles of music and to have adequately developed skills for recognising, understanding and memorising musical material.  

CG2: Demonstrate appropriate skills for reading, improvising, creating and recreating music.  

CG3: Correctly produce and interpret the graphic notation of musical texts.  

CG4: Recognise musical materials through the development of aural skills and be able to apply these skills in professional practice.  

CG5: Be familiar with the technological resources specific to their field of activity and their applications in music, preparing themselves to assimilate any innovations that may arise.  

CG10: Argue and verbally express one’s points of view on various musical concepts.  

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

CG12: Demonstrate a sufficient knowledge of musical phenomena and their relationship with the evolution of aesthetic, artistic and cultural values.  

CG13: To know the foundations and structure of musical language and be able to apply them in interpretative, creative, research or pedagogical practice.  

CG17: Be familiar with the different musical styles and practices that allow one to understand, in a broader cultural context, one’s own field of activity and enrich it.  

CG18: Communicate in writing and verbally the content and objectives of their professional activity to specialised individuals, using appropriate technical and general vocabulary.  

CG20: Know the classification, acoustic, historical and anthropological characteristics of musical instruments.  

CG21: Create and shape one’s own artistic concepts, having developed the ability to express oneself through them using assimilated techniques and resources.  

CG22: Possess a broad and diverse range of musical resources to create or adapt musical pieces, as well as to improvise in different contexts, based on knowledge of various styles, formats, techniques, trends and languages.  

CG23: To value musical creation as the act of giving sonic form to a rich and complex structural thought. 

Specific competencies: 

IN1: Perform the significant repertoire of their specialism, appropriately addressing the aspects that identify it in its stylistic diversity.  

IN2: Construct a coherent and original interpretative concept.  

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

IN7: Develop skills in reading and improvising on musical material.

Learning outcomes (general objectives)

1. Describe the various ways in which musical materials have been organised in the different styles and periods of jazz. 
2. Apply analytical methodologies most appropriate to the work under analysis and to the purposes of that analysis, with discernment and flexibility. 
3. Demonstrate the precise ability for the vertical-harmonic understanding characteristic of jazz music. 
4. To harmonise and reharmonise original or existing compositions with stylistic coherence. 
5. Develop original melodic, harmonic and rhythmic material over jazz formal structures. 
6. Analyse forms, harmonic progressions and melodies by major composers from different eras of jazz. 

Contents

Parameters and elements that structure musical discourse. Hierarchies of these parameters. Relationship with styles. The relationship between composition and improvisation. Analytical methodologies. Identification of elements that constitute works. Determinants of styles. Autonomy in the application of analytical methodologies. Diverse analytical techniques according to the parameters under study. Application of analytical techniques to short, selectively chosen sequences. Evaluation of common harmonic progressions. 

Teaching methodology

The teaching-learning methodology in classes involves lectures (topic presentations), debate and discussion sessions, group work sessions and student presentations. Autonomous work involves compositions, analyses of works and written assignments, either individually or in groups. 

Assessment systems

The assessment system is continuous assessment, based on diagnostic assessment and materialised in a summative assessment which leads to the final grade. Continuous assessment is carried out through various assessment records derived from specific assessment activities such as participation and work in class, the presentation of work in class, the completion of assignments, compositions, analyses and/or readings outside of class, the submission of written work or the taking of written, oral or aural tests.