Competences developed in the course

Transversal Competences

CT7: Use communicative skills and constructive criticism in teamwork.

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

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

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

General Competences

CG1: Understand the theoretical principles of music and demonstrate appropriate skills for recognising, understanding and memorising musical material.

CG2: Demonstrate adequate skills for musical reading, improvisation, creation and re-creation.

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

CG4: Identify musical materials through developed auditory skills and apply this capacity in professional practice.

CG5: Understand the technological resources specific to the field and their applications in music, preparing to assimilate future developments.

CG10: Argue and verbally express viewpoints on diverse musical concepts.

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

CG12: Demonstrate sufficient knowledge of musical practice and its relationship with the evolution of aesthetic, artistic and cultural values.

CG13: Understand the foundations and structure of musical language and apply them in interpretative, creative, research or pedagogical practice.

CG14: Understand the historical development of music across its different traditions, from a critical perspective that situates musical art within its social and cultural context.

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

CG17: Be familiar with different musical styles and practices that enable understanding of one’s own field within a broader cultural context and enrich it.

CG18: Communicate, in written and oral form, the content and objectives of professional activity to specialised audiences, using appropriate technical and general vocabulary.

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

CG21: Create and shape personal artistic concepts, having developed the capacity to express oneself through assimilated techniques and resources.

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

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

Specific Competences

IN1: Perform the significant repertoire of one’s speciality, appropriately addressing the aspects that identify it within its stylistic diversity.

IN2: Construct a coherent and personal interpretative approach.

IN6: Argue and verbally express viewpoints on interpretation, and respond to the challenge of facilitating the understanding of the musical work.

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

Learning outcomes (general objectives)

1. Master differentiated composition techniques across various jazz and modern music styles.
2. Demonstrate precise capacity for vertical-harmonic understanding characteristic of jazz music.
3. Harmonise and reharmonise original or external compositions with stylistic coherence.
4. Possess differentiated composition techniques across jazz styles.
5. Apply diverse techniques for jazz composition for instrumental groups of varying formats, according to instrumental needs, availability and other factors.
6. Adapt works to necessary aesthetic requirements, using harmonic colour as an expressive element as important as melodic ideas.
7. Develop original melodic material based on jazz and modern music formal structures.

Contents

Instrumental textures. Instrumental ensembles. Composition and expression techniques. Formal structures. Harmonisation. Instrumentation for different ensembles. Construction of formal structures characteristic of jazz. Harmonic techniques characteristic of modern music. Relationships between styles, harmonic approaches, rhythmic sequences and timbral elements. Traditional and modal techniques for harmonising and reharmonising works. Composition of works with specific stylistic profiles. Traditional and modal vertical harmonic relationships. Analysis and listening considering the most significant elements of jazz styles. Application of harmonic techniques, harmonic forms and superstructures characteristic of jazz. Relationship between harmonic patterns and the aesthetic characteristics derived from their use. Harmonisation and reharmonisation techniques. Composition of works within jazz or modern music idioms.

Teaching methodology

Teaching–learning methodology includes lectures (topic presentations), debate and discussion sessions, group work sessions, and student-led presentations. Autonomous work includes compositions, study of works and written assignments, individually or in groups.

Assessment systems

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