Competences developed in the course

Transversal Competences

CT2: Collect significant information, analyse it, synthesise it and manage it appropriately.

CT3: Solve problems and make decisions that respond to the objectives of the work undertaken.

CT7: Use communicative skills and constructive criticism in teamwork.

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

CT10: Lead and manage working groups.

CT13: Seek excellence and quality in professional activity.

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.

CG7: Demonstrate the ability to interact musically in different types of participatory musical projects.

CG8: Apply appropriate working methods to overcome challenges in personal study and collective musical practice.

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, recognising its stylistic traits and describing them clearly and comprehensively.

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.

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

CG19: Understand the pedagogical and educational implications of music at different levels.

CG21: Create and shape personal artistic concepts, developing the ability to express oneself through assimilated techniques and resources.

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

Specific Competences

PE3: Understand the constitutive elements of music, demonstrating high proficiency in auditory perception, reading, analysis, writing, improvisation and musical creation, and interrelating these skills for appropriate application in one’s own activity.

PE4: Acquire technical mastery and expressive capacity in the interpretation and leadership of vocal and instrumental ensembles, as a basis for improvisation, creation and experimentation with one’s instrument, voice and body in specific teaching/learning contexts.

Learning outcomes (general objectives)

1. Acquire choral conducting skills applicable to diverse contexts and complementary to one’s own specialisation.
2. Acquire the ability to adapt, arrange or compose vocal works for choral ensembles of different configurations and typologies.

Contents

Basic conducting technique. Analysis of different musical styles and their application to appropriate interpretation. Communicative, expressive and technical skills specific to choral conducting. Bodily use in relation to gesture, integrated harmoniously into the act of interpreting and communicating. Communicative, expressive and technical skills that shape choral interpretation. Analysis of different musical styles and their application to appropriate interpretation. Bodily use in relation to gesture, integrated harmoniously into the act of interpreting and communicating.

Teaching methodology

Teaching–learning methodology includes collective and ensemble work sessions. Autonomous work includes studying and preparing the works to be rehearsed in class.

Assessment systems

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 activities such as class participation and work, analyses and/or readings outside class, and the completion of specific conducting tests.