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.

CT12: Adapt competitively to cultural, social, and artistic changes and to advances in the professional field, selecting appropriate pathways for continuous training.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

CG22: Possess broad and diverse musical resources to create or adapt musical pieces and 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 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.

IN7: Develop skills for reading and improvisation based on musical material.

Learning outcomes (general objectives)

1. Develop analytical capacity regarding the traits, styles, and variants of flamenco music.
2. Compare and contextualise the distinctive musical features of flamenco in relation to other traditional musics.
3. Recognise, identify, and explain theoretically and practically—through notation, documents, and audiovisual media—the fundamental elements and palos of flamenco styles within historical transformation processes, situating them in relation to other contemporary musics.
4. Analyse and evaluate the historical development of flamenco styles and performers in relation to the social and cultural environments where they have circulated, and assess the corresponding historiography.
5. Compare theoretical works on flamenco music referring to styles, transformation processes, and social life through music.
6. Acquire an overview of the flamenco repertoire that broadens global knowledge of this musical style.
7. Situate a work or performance within a style or period by recognising its compositional, stylistic, and formal elements and drawing pertinent conclusions.
8. Recognise historically, aesthetically, and formally the important features of flamenco musical literature.
9. Identify local and regional stylistic variants, as well as those defined by major flamenco artists.

Contents

The flamenco mode: harmonic and tonal relations. Historical evolution of flamenco technique. Influences, incorporations, and harmonic expansion in contemporary flamenco. Formal constructions: relationships between singing, guitar, percussion, and dance. Recognition and analysis of flamenco musical elements. Geographical location of styles and variants. Organisational models of flamenco styles (musical, textual, gestural) in relation to social context and transformation processes. Social and cultural history of flamenco and its associated social values. Documentary and bibliographic sources for flamenco studies. Theoretical and practical analysis of flamenco styles. Socially situated analysis of values and conceptions surrounding flamenco. Historical and aesthetic placement of flamenco interpretations. Exchange and debate around flamenco research. Historical overview of the general repertoire. Historical-stylistic perspectives. Sound organisation models. Geographic variants and zoning. Critical listening, analysis, and reading of flamenco works and versions from a global perspective. Placement within styles, zones, periods, and trends.

Teaching methodology

Lecture sessions, debate and discussion sessions, group work, and student presentations. Autonomous work includes compositions, study of works, and 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, compositions, analyses and/or readings outside class, submission of written work, or written, oral, or listening tests.