Competences developed in the course

Transversal Competences

CT7: Use communication skills and constructive criticism in teamwork.

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

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

General Competences

CG1: Know the theoretical principles of music and have adequately developed skills for the recognition, understanding, and memorisation of musical material.

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

CG5: Know the technological resources specific to the field of activity and their applications in music, preparing to assimilate new developments.

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

CG11: Be familiar with a broad and updated repertoire, centred on the student’s speciality but open to other traditions; recognise its stylistic features and describe them clearly and comprehensively.

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

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

CG14: Know the historical development of music in 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 allow understanding and enriching one’s own field of activity within a broader cultural context.

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

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

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

Specific Competences

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

Learning outcomes (general objectives)

1. Identify, through historical, historiographical, and audiovisual sources, the stages and processes of transformation of Western popular music, always in relation to the social and cultural context and contemporary lines of thought.
2. Relate and explain the dramatic, performative, and literary elements involved in the different stages of popular music, as well as the main documentary sources and specialised musical historiography.

Contents

Western popular musics and the lines of thought that sustain them. Periodisation and transformation processes. Historiography of these musics. Schools and compositional styles of diverse interpretative traditions. Documentary, object-based, and historiographical sources. Analysis of musical activities and products. Analysis of styles through musical notation and transmission procedures based on strict or secondary orality. Analysis of documents on popular musical activity and its environment. Placement of popular music performances within their corresponding cultural traditions.

Teaching methodology

The teaching–learning methodology includes lecture sessions, debate and discussion sessions, group work, and student presentations. Autonomous work includes the study of works and the preparation of written assignments, individually or in groups.

Assessment systems

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