Competences developed in the course

Transversal competencies:  

CT13: Strive for excellence and quality in their professional activity. 

General competencies:  

CG5: Know the technological resources specific to one’s field of activity and their applications in music, preparing oneself to assimilate any innovations that may arise.   

CG9: Know the specific characteristics of one’s principal instrument—its construction and acoustics, historical evolution, and mutual influences with other disciplines.   

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

CG24: Develop skills for self-training throughout their professional life.  

CG25: Know and be able to use study and research methodologies that enable the continuous development and innovation of their musical activity over the course of their career.  

Specific competencies:  

SO1: Know the musical structure of works from the various repertoires of the Western tradition and other music, with the ability to evaluate their expressive, morphological, syntactic, and sonic aspects, and to describe their characteristics.  

SO2: Develop auditory skills that allow one to recognize, memorize, and reproduce a wide variety of musical materials, as well as to critically analyse the phenomena involved in listening and in the production of organized sound.  

SO3: Apply technologies in the fields of music creation, performance, and public dissemination, and use technical resources that enable sound production and organization, as well as the various approaches, applications, and functionalities that underpin musical creation.  

SO6: Know the musical instruments of the Western tradition and of other cultures, their physical, acoustic, and musical characteristics, their timbral and expressive possibilities, as well as promote their expansion with technological resources or design virtual instruments.  

SO7: Know the techniques and procedures for creating and supporting musical, sound, and audiovisual creative processes.  

SO10: Be able to integrate art, technology, and science, with sufficient flexibility to adapt to multiple and changing environments.   

SO11: Understand the stage implications of their professional activity and be able to develop its practical applications in their field of work.  

Learning outcomes (general objectives)

1. Expand knowledge of instrument families by incorporating those from other musical cultures.  
2. Refine skills in the analysis and understanding of instruments’ acoustic characteristics.  
3. Explain and develop different tuning systems.
4. Address the construction of simple musical instruments, especially instrumentalinterfacesand experimental musical instruments.  
5. Describe and explain the basic phenomena that give rise to a sound experience at the biological and functional level. 
6. Relate the perceptual characteristics of sound to its physical properties.  
7. Develop sensitivity to psychoacoustic perceptual phenomena and their influence on musical listening.  
8. Explain and apply the standard procedures for studying sound perception.  
9. Have a general overview of the possibilities for using technology in music and learn to use various computer tools of musical interest.  
10. Use the different technical devices involved in a sound production.  
11. Select, configure, and properlyoperatethe various technical devices involved in a sound production, and develop the practical skills necessary to carry out a simple sound recording session.  
12. Gain a broad overview of the musical possibilities offered by computer-based media.  
13. Use the various technical devices involved in a sound production.  
14. Develop the practical skills necessary to carry out a simple sound recording session.  
15. Develop technological and aesthetic criteria to contribute to a music production. 
16. Consolidatethe practical skills necessary to carry out a sound recording session.  
17. Acquirebasic knowledge of music production and mastering.  
18. Put into practice, in multichannel productions, the knowledgeacquiredabout recording, editing, and sound production.  
19. Relate the perceptual characteristics of sound to its physical characteristics.  
20. Develop sensitivity to psychoacoustic perceptual phenomena and their influence on musical listening. 
21. Explain and apply the usual procedures for studying soundperception.  
22. Have a global view of the possibilities offered by ICT in the production and management of musical content. 
23. Put into practice the technical possibilities of computer technology and new communication channelsin order tooptimize the production, management, and dissemination of cultural goods and services.   

Contents

Detailed acoustic study of rooms and spaces. Impulse responses. Reverberation time. Reflection and absorption. Acoustic insulation and conditioning. Characteristics of auditoriums, concert halls, and recording studios. Experimental and critical, systematic verification of various sound perception phenomena.  

Teaching methodology

The teaching–learning methodology in classes includes lectures (topic presentations), debate and colloquium sessions, group work sessions, and student presentations of topics. 

Assessment systems

The assessment system is continuous assessment, based on diagnostic assessment and materialized in a summative assessment that results in the final grade. Continuous assessment is carried out through various assessment records derived from specific assessment activities such as participation and in-class work, presenting assignments in class, completing assignments and/or readings outside of class, submitting written assignments, or taking written or oral tests.