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

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

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

CT11: Develop a professional ethic in practice based on aesthetic, environmental, and diversity awareness and sensitivity.

CT13: Strive for excellence and quality in professional activity.

General Competences

CG1: Understand the theoretical principles of music and develop appropriate skills for the recognition, comprehension, and memorisation of musical material.

CG2: Demonstrate appropriate skills in reading, improvisation, musical creation, and re-creation.

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

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

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

CG9: Understand the characteristics of the principal instrument in relation to its construction and acoustics, historical evolution, and interactions with other disciplines.

CG10: Argue and express viewpoints verbally on a range of musical concepts.

CG11: Be familiar with a broad and up-to-date repertoire, centred on one’s specialisation but open to other traditions. Recognise and clearly describe the stylistic features that characterise this repertoire.

CG12: Demonstrate sufficient knowledge of music and its relationship to the evolution of aesthetic, artistic, and cultural values.

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

CG14: Understand the historical development of music across its different traditions from a critical perspective that situates musical art within its social and cultural context.

CG15: Possess broad knowledge of the most representative works of historical and analytical music literature.

CG16: Use available means and resources responsibly with regard to cultural and environmental heritage.

CG17: Be familiar with different musical styles and practices that enable a broader cultural understanding and enrichment of one’s field of activity.

CG18: Communicate the content and objectives of professional activity effectively, both orally and in writing, using appropriate technical and general vocabulary.

CG19: Understand the pedagogical and educational implications of music at different levels.

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

CG21: Create and develop personal artistic concepts while acquiring the ability to express them through assimilated techniques and resources.

CG22: Possess broad and diverse musical resources for creating or adapting musical works and improvising in different contexts based on knowledge of styles, formats, techniques, trends, and languages.

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

CG24: Develop lifelong learning skills for continued professional growth.

CG25: Understand and apply study and research methodologies that support the continuous development and innovation of musical activity throughout a professional career.

CG26: Relate one’s own musical activity to other scientific and humanistic disciplines, the arts in general, and other musical disciplines in particular, enriching professional practice through a multidisciplinary perspective.

Specific Competences

CO1: Know the principal repertoires of the Western tradition and other musical cultures and develop the ability to fully appreciate their expressive, syntactic, and sonic dimensions.

CO2: Acquire the training required to recognise and assess different types of musical and sound structures both aurally and intellectually.

CO3: Analyse and interpret the construction of musical works at all structural levels and dimensions.

CO5: Master the techniques and resources of the principal historical and contemporary compositional styles.

CO6: Understand the foundations of musical acoustics, the acoustic characteristics of instruments, their technical, sonic, and expressive possibilities, and their potential combinations.

CO7: Develop the interest, skills, and methodologies required for musical research and experimentation.

CO11: Develop a distinctive and flexible artistic personality capable of adapting to a wide variety of creative environments and challenges.

DI2: Understand the musical structure of works from the Western tradition and other musical cultures, with the ability to assess their syntactic and sonic aspects.

DI3: Develop aural skills that enable the recognition, memorisation, and reproduction of a wide variety of musical materials.

DI4: Understand analytically the creation, notation, and performance of musical works from a comprehensive perspective.

DI5: Master the basic techniques of composition.

DI6: Understand the technological applications used in music notation, recording, editing, and performance.

DI7: Understand the foundations of musical acoustics, the acoustic characteristics of instruments, their technical, sonic, and expressive possibilities, and their potential combinations.

DI8: Understand the most recent trends in musical creation and be able to assess them through an in-depth understanding of their notational systems and performance implications.

DI9: Develop communication and collaborative skills with other musicians, acknowledging the responsibility and leadership inherent in the conducting profession.

DI10: Communicate well-structured, specific, and comprehensive musical ideas of a theoretical, analytical, aesthetic, and critical nature.

DI11: Develop a distinctive and flexible artistic personality capable of adapting to diverse musical environments and challenges.

Acoustic, technical, and idiomatic characteristics of orchestral instruments. Traditional instrumental combinations. Perceptual aspects. Instrumentation techniques from different historical periods and their relationship to the aesthetic and intellectual approaches of composers from each stylistic era. Contemporary instrumentation techniques and their relationship to the artistic thought and musical languages of present-day composers. Timbre and instrumentation as compositional parameters.

Exploration of instrumental possibilities through direct interaction with performers of different instruments. Analysis of instrumental writing in works by composers from different periods and musical styles. Transcriptions and arrangements of musical passages adapted to the characteristics and possibilities of different instruments. Listening to and analysing the instrumentation of works from different periods of music history that are considered milestones in the evolution of orchestration and instrumentation techniques.

Use of contrapuntal imitation techniques as constructive, expressive, and formal methods. Relationship of imitation techniques with the other elements involved in the organisation of a musical work. Adaptation of the concepts and techniques of imitation and fugue to tonal materials and diverse musical contexts. Integration of imitation and fugue techniques into musical analysis and composition. Musical analysis and composition from a creative perspective that takes into account all relevant musical parameters.

Variation as a synthesis of diverse compositional techniques and as a precursor to twelve-tone methods. New systems of musical organisation and their formal implications. Chromaticism. Expanded harmonies. Polytonality. Polyrhythms. Atonality. Twelve-tone technique.

Use of the techniques studied as constructive, expressive, and formal methods. Relationship of these techniques with the other elements involved in the organisation of a musical work. Adaptation of the concepts and techniques developed to tonal materials and diverse musical contexts. Integration of the studied concepts and techniques into musical analysis and composition from a creative perspective that considers all relevant musical parameters.

Use of the studied techniques as constructive, expressive, and formal methods in close relationship with all other elements involved in the organisation of a musical work. Adaptation of the developed concepts and techniques to a variety of musical contexts, integrating them into analytical and compositional work from a creative perspective. Research, experimentation, and conceptualisation of new technical and aesthetic proposals in response to emerging situations and the evolving needs of contemporary music.