Competences developed in the course

Transversal competences:

CT1: To organise and plan work efficiently and in a motivating manner.

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

CT8: To develop ideas and arguments in a reasoned and critical manner.

CT13: To seek excellence and quality in professional activity.

General competences:

CG1: To know the theoretical principles of music and to have adequately developed skills for the recognition, understanding and memorisation of musical material.

CG2: To demonstrate appropriate skills for musical reading, improvisation, creation and recreation.

CG10: To argue and verbally express points of view on diverse musical concepts.

CG12: To demonstrate sufficient knowledge of musical phenomena and their relationship with the evolution of aesthetic, artistic and cultural values.

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

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

CG21: To create and shape personal artistic concepts, having developed the ability to express them through assimilated techniques and resources.

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

CG23: To value musical creation as the action of giving sonic form to a rich and complex structural thought.

Specific competences:

CO1: To know the main repertoires of the Western tradition and other musical traditions, and to acquire the ability to fully appreciate the expressive, syntactic and sonic aspects of the corresponding works.

CO2: To acquire the necessary training to recognise and evaluate different types of musical and sonic structures both aurally and intellectually.

CO3: To analytically interpret the construction of musical works in all their structural aspects and levels.

CO5: To master the techniques and resources of the main historical and recent compositional styles.

CO7: To develop the interest, abilities and methodologies necessary for musical research and experimentation.

CO11: To acquire a singular and flexible artistic personality that allows adaptation to multiple creative environments and challenges.

Learning outcomes (general objectives)

1. To acquire a broad range of techniques for sound production and organisation, as well as the different approaches, applications, conditions and functions that underpin musical creation at an aesthetic and social level.

2. To develop personal criteria that allow the structuring and development of compositional work.

3. To create musical works emphasising previous approaches and choices and their constructive, aesthetic and formal implications.

4. To compose for musical groups formed by available instruments and performers in order to enable the performance of written works and to evaluate the results obtained in relation to the work itself.

5. To understand timbre and instrumentation as parameters of structural and formal organisation.

6. To critically assess different forms of contrapuntal imitation as techniques for organising musical material and to the other elements involved in the organisation of a musical work. Adaptation of the concepts and techniques developed to diverse musical contexts, integrating them into musical analysis and composition from a creative perspective. Research, experimentation and conceptualisation form, and to apply them in real musical contexts in direct relation to all the musical parameters that converge and shape the formal organisation of music.

7. To extend knowledge of techniques for musical construction and organisation, including scalar and harmonic structures developed over diverse tonal and atonal contexts.

8. To apply the main techniques and methods of musical construction and organisation developed throughout the 20th century to the present day.

Contents

Variation as a compendium of diverse compositional techniques and as a generator of the twelve-tone method. New systems of musical organisation and their formal implications. Chromaticism. Extended harmonies. Polytonality. Polyrhythms. Atonality. Twelve-tone technique.

Use of the techniques studied as constructive, expressive and formal methods, closely related to the other elements involved in the organisation of a musical work. Adaptation of the concepts and techniques developed to diverse musical contexts, integrating them into musical analysis and composition from a creative perspective. Research, experimentation and conceptualisation of new technical and aesthetic proposals in relation to new situations and the evolving needs of music.

Teaching methodology

The teaching-learning methodology in individual classes involves the review of the student’s compositional work and guidance throughout the process. The methodology of group classes involves master classes (presentation of topics), discussion and seminar sessions, group work sessions and student presentations. Independent work involves compositions, study of works and written assignments, individually or in groups.

Assessment systems