Competences developed in the course

Transversal competences:

CT1: Organise and plan work efficiently and in a motivating way.

CT3: Solve problems and make decisions that respond to the objectives of the work being carried out.

CT7: Use communication skills and constructive criticism in teamwork.

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

CT9: Integrate adequately into multidisciplinary teams and diverse cultural contexts.

CT13: Adapt, under competitive conditions, to cultural, social and artistic changes and to advances occurring in the professional field, and select appropriate pathways for continuing education.

General competences:

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

CG2: Show adequate aptitudes for reading, improvisation, creation and musical recreation.

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

CG7: Demonstrate the ability to interact musically in different types of participatory musical projects.

CG8: Apply the most appropriate working methods to overcome challenges that arise in personal study and collective musical practice.

CG11: Be familiar with a broad and updated repertoire, centred on one’s speciality but open to other traditions. Recognise the stylistic traits that characterise this repertoire and describe them clearly and completely.

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

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

CG21: Create and shape one’s own artistic concepts, having developed the ability to express oneself through them using assimilated techniques and resources.

CG22: Have broad and diverse musical resources to create or adapt musical pieces as well as improvise in different contexts based on knowledge of diverse styles, formats, techniques, trends and languages.

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

CG24: Develop capacities for self‑training throughout one’s professional life.

CG25: Know and be capable of using study and research methodologies that enable continuous development and innovation in musical activity throughout one’s career.

Learning outcomes (general objectives)

1. Assimilate harmony and counterpoint as techniques of formal organisation and apply them in real musical contexts in direct dependence on all musical parameters that converge and configure the formal organisation of music.
2. Evaluate and approach rhythmic, melodic, harmonic and contrapuntal work from the perspective of formal balance and the aesthetic intention pursued.
3. Develop harmonic sensitivity in contrapuntal work and in voice leading in harmonic work.

Contents

Use of harmony and counterpoint as expressive and formal constructive methods, in close relation with the other elements involved in the organisation of a musical work.
Adaptation of harmony and counterpoint concepts and techniques to tonal materials and diverse musical contexts.
Integration of harmony and counterpoint in musical analysis and composition work from a creative perspective that takes into account the other elements of musical evaluation.

Teaching methodology

The teaching‑learning methodology in the classes includes lecture-format sessions (topic development), debate and discussion sessions, group work sessions and student presentations.
Autonomous work includes individual and group work, distributed in specific tasks and/or a final assignment.

Assessment systems

The assessment system is continuous assessment, based on diagnostic assessment and formalised through summative assessment that leads to the final grade.
Continuous assessment is carried out through different assessment records derived from specific activities such as participation and class work, presentation of work in class, completion of assignments, compositions, analyses and/or readings outside class, submission of written work or written, oral or listening tests.