Music and Dance


Type: Compulsory (OB)

Area: Didactics and pedagogy extension

ECTS: 2

Total value in hours: 60
Classroom hours: 30
Other contact hours: 5
Time for directed work (non face-to-face): 15
Hours for self-study and independent learning: 10

Department: Education and Artistic Mediation

Competences developed in the course

Transversal Competences

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

CT3: Solve problems and make decisions that meet the objectives of the work undertaken.

CT6: Exercise self-critical reflection on one’s own professional and interpersonal practice.

CT7: Use communication skills and constructive criticism in teamwork.

General Competences

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

CG8: Apply the most appropriate working methods to overcome the challenges encountered in individual study and collaborative musical practice.

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

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

CG21: Create and shape personal artistic concepts, developing the ability to express them through acquired techniques and artistic resources.

CG24: Develop the capacity for lifelong self-directed learning throughout professional life.

CG26: Be able to relate one’s own musical activity to other disciplines within the sciences and humanities, the arts in general and other musical disciplines in particular, enriching professional practice through a multidisciplinary perspective.

CG27: Know and apply the legislation relevant to the professional field.

Specific Competences

PE4: Acquire technical mastery and expressive skills in performance and in directing vocal and instrumental ensembles as a basis for improvisation, creation and experimentation with one’s own instrument, voice and body in specific music teaching and learning situations.

PE5: Be able to develop community-oriented music education practice as both a musician and music educator.

PE8: Participate actively in music education projects through cooperative work and assume responsibility for developing music education as a collective professional endeavour.

Learning outcomes (general objectives)

  1. Recognise bodily movement as a creative and expressive medium and as a pedagogical tool complementary to musical performance.
  1. Develop listening skills from sensory, emotional, creative and expressive perspectives.
  1. Discover musicality and creativity through one’s own body movement, both with sound and in silence.
  1. Collect, study and explore different approaches and tools for body movement.
  1. Be able to compose and improvise using the body in space, in relation to sound and to other participants.
  1. Acquire a basic understanding of the relationship between body movement and music, considering space, rhythm, coordination, different movement qualities, expression, and interaction with audiences and fellow performers.
  1. Develop tools for interdisciplinary artistic practice.
  1. Demonstrate autonomy in continuing professional learning and in developing pedagogical practice by selecting and producing teaching materials aligned with established learning objectives.
  1. Integrate and systematically relate the contents of the course with those of other music subjects and, where appropriate, with non-musical disciplines.
  1. Extend and complement knowledge of the specialisation through familiarity with current pedagogical trends and practices, particularly those based on cooperative models and creative, interdisciplinary exchange of ideas.
  1. Create musical pieces, excerpts or exercises that respond to a wide variety of predetermined educational objectives.
  1. Recognise the value and relevance of creating musical works for specific educational purposes and use them as tools for pedagogical intervention.

Contents

Exploration and investigation of personal movement in relation to sound and silence, movement and stillness. Development of a range of movement tools. Development of body awareness. Use of a variety of movement techniques and styles from contemporary, classical and traditional dance in relation to the appropriate musical repertoire. Development of creativity through interdisciplinary artistic practice. Study of musical and bodily expression from a sensory perspective, including analysis using Laban Movement Analysis (LMA). Exploration and development of personal movement in relation to composition and improvisation in space and time. Use of anatomical knowledge and movement resources. Development of rhythm, coordination, stage presence and communication skills. Experimentation with improvisation, choreography and the creation of short music-and-movement works, both individually and collaboratively. Development of teaching resources for classroom use. Application of different compositional techniques with pedagogical purposes. Relationship between composed materials, their teaching applications and their intended educational objectives. Development of general musical abilities through instrumental practice, together with expressive and communicative skills through the instrument.

Teaching methodology

Teaching and learning activities include lectures, discussion seminars, group work and student presentations.

Assessment systems

Assessment is based on continuous assessment, founded on an initial diagnostic assessment and culminating in a summative assessment that determines the final grade. Continuous assessment is carried out through a range of assessment instruments derived from specific learning activities, including class participation and engagement, oral presentations, assignments and/or readings completed outside class, written coursework, and written or oral examinations.