Competences developed in the course

Transversal Competences

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, and its capacity to generate significant values.

General Competences

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

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

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.

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.

Specific Competences

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

MU1: Know the musical structure of works from different repertoires of Western and other traditions, with the ability to fully assess their syntactic and sonic aspects.

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

Learning outcomes (general objectives)

1. Assess different models of ethnomusicology and sociology of music in relation to the social sciences and research objectives.
2. Explain and apply to specific musical examples the research methods and organisational models through which ethnomusicology describes traditional musics.
3. Adapt and create appropriate models for newly described musics.
4. Situate musical activity as a communicative activity whose meaning arises from its specific social and cultural context, deepening key ethnomusicological concepts.
5. Understand musical graphic notation as a tool that must adapt to the objectives of each investigation.
6. Explain musical activities and thought on Catalan traditional music through historical and historiographical sources: musical documents and contextual objects.
7. Identify and analyse the various styles, schools, and practices of Catalan traditional music within their cultural context, explaining processes of transformation.
8. Apply research methodologies specifically related to Catalan traditional music.

Contents

Ethnomusicological concepts and major theoretical and analytical models from the mid‑20th century to the present. Application of theoretical models and analytical procedures. Evaluation of each model according to the objectives and characteristics of specific research. Constructive materials of traditional musics from different cultures. Research methods and models for describing traditional musics (metric, rhythmic, intervallic, melodic, polyphonic), situated within the cultural context of each musical activity. Analysis and use of descriptive models in relation to specific investigations. Analysis of sound documents according to different graphic notation models. Analysis of musical activities and products. Analysis of documents on musical activity and its environment. Contextualisation of musical interpretations within their cultural framework.

Teaching methodology

Lecture sessions, debate and discussion 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 evaluation leading to the final grade. Assessment is carried out through participation and class work, presentations, assignments, analyses and/or readings outside class, submission of written work, or written tests.