Competences developed in the course

Transversal Competences

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

General Competences

CG4: Recognise musical materials through the development of auditory capacity and apply this ability in professional practice.

CG10: Argue and express verbally one’s 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.

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

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 broad knowledge of the most representative works of historical and analytical music literature.

CG17: Be familiar with different musical styles and practices that allow understanding and enriching one’s field of activity within a broader cultural context.

CG18: Communicate in writing and verbally the content and objectives of one’s professional activity to specialised audiences, using appropriate technical and general vocabulary.

Specific Competences

CO1: Know the principal repertoires of the Western tradition and other musics, with the ability to fully assess the expressive, syntactic and sonic aspects of the corresponding works.

CO10: Convey verbally a well‑structured theoretical, analytical, aesthetic and critical judgement, beyond its application to strictly compositional contexts.

MU1: Understand 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.

MU2: Understand the artistic, historical and social conditions in which musical creation and interpretative practice have developed.

MU3: Understand musical materials, historical and modern compositional techniques, instruments, their construction, acoustics and other organological characteristics.

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

MU8: Argue and express in written and verbal form one’s viewpoints on interpretation, responding to the challenge of facilitating understanding of the musical work.

Learning outcomes (general objectives)

1. Demonstrate knowledge of the wide variety of musical activities and lines of thought in and about music of this century in the West through different historical and historiographical sources.
2. Identify the various styles, schools, technologies and musical practices —minority and popular— of the period, situated within their cultural context, and analyse their processes of transformation and dissemination.
3. Recognise the constructive and organisational elements of different works and tendencies of the 20th century, and assess the constructive and organisational elements used throughout the century and observe the consequences of their application.
4. Explain musical activities and musical thought of the period through different historical and historiographical sources: musical documents and documents and objects related to musical activities.
5. Know the proposals, tendencies, languages and structural concepts of music, theoretical foundations, and the most important approaches, systems and methodologies of musical and cultural analysis and thought in the period from the early 20th century to the present.
6. Understand the musical implications of the electroacoustic medium, its continuity with mid‑20th‑century experimental music and its later influence on contemporary instrumental composition.
7. Share spaces for debate on the various methods and approaches through which musical form and construction develop in the works, authors or tendencies under study.

Contents

History and periodisation of musical activities and thought of the 20th and 21st centuries within their social and cultural context. History of historiography and analytical procedures developed during the same century. Processes of classifying musics according to political, social and cultural criteria in each period. Composers, schools and tendencies. Compositional and interpretative styles and their processes of transformation. Research methodologies specifically aimed at this period, and corresponding documentary, material and historiographical sources.

Teaching methodology

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

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, presentation of assignments, completion of tasks, analyses and/or readings outside class, submission of written work or written, oral or listening examinations.