Competences developed in the course

Transversal Competences

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

General Competences

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.

Specific Competences

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

MU6: Know scientific research methods specific to the field and their applications.

Learning outcomes (general objectives)

1. Study the diversity of forms adopted by the manuscript book, its materials, and the preparation required to receive writing.
2. Apply these studies to the typology of books containing musical notation.
3. Study the evolution of different writing supports and their relationship with the evolution of notation.
4. Know the different typologies of codicological description.
5. Learn to describe codicologically the various supports of musical writing.
6. Know the different methods for manuscript conservation.
7. Practise reading texts on ancient writing supports.
8. Establish the transition from musical manuscript to musical type printing.

Contents

Palaeography and codicology: origins and evolution of concepts. Study of manuscript supports from the perspective of their manufacture and their influence on the emergence of musical notation. Ruling and pricking of folios. Planning the material organisation of manuscripts. Page composition. Illumination and decoration. History of the production, transmission, and reception of manuscript books with musical notation.

Teaching methodology

Lecture sessions, debate and discussion sessions, group work, and student presentations.

Assessment systems

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