Competences developed in the course

Transversal Competencies

CT7: Use communication skills and constructive criticism in teamwork.

CT8: Develop ideas and arguments through reasoned and critical thinking.

CT12: Adapt, in competitive environments, to cultural, social, and artistic changes, as well as to developments within the professional field, and select appropriate pathways for continuing professional development.

CT17: Contribute, through professional activity, to raising social awareness of the importance of cultural heritage, its impact across different fields, and its capacity to generate meaningful values.

General Competencies

CG1: Demonstrate knowledge of the theoretical principles of music and develop appropriate abilities for the recognition, understanding, and memorization of musical material.

CG2: Demonstrate appropriate abilities in reading, improvisation, musical creation, and recreation.

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

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

CG5: Understand the technological resources relevant to the field of activity and their applications in music, while preparing to assimilate future developments in this area.

CG10: Present and justify personal viewpoints on different musical concepts.

CG11: Be familiar with a broad and updated repertoire, focused on the student’s specialization while remaining open to other traditions. Recognize and clearly describe the stylistic features that characterize this repertoire.

CG12: Demonstrate sufficient knowledge of music as a phenomenon and its relationship with the evolution of aesthetic, artistic, and cultural values.

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

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

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

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

CG18: Communicate, both orally and in writing, the content and objectives of professional activity to specialized audiences, using appropriate technical and general terminology.

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

CG21: Create and develop personal artistic concepts, having acquired the ability to express them through assimilated techniques and resources.

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

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

Specific Competencies

IN1: Perform the significant repertoire of the specialization while appropriately addressing the aspects that define it within its stylistic diversity.

IN2: Develop a coherent and personal interpretative concept.

IN6: Present and articulate viewpoints on interpretation and respond to the challenge of facilitating understanding of the musical work.

IN7: Develop skills in reading and improvising based on musical material.

Learning outcomes (general objectives)

1. Arrange specifically for rhythm-section instruments (drums, percussion, acoustic and electric bass, piano, keyboards, and guitar), using harmonic and rhythmic sequences characteristic of jazz and modern music.
2. Apply technical resources, including the construction of voiced harmonic progressions (in two, three, and four parts), both homophonic and polyphonic, based on harmonic structures oriented towards instrumentation.
3. Demonstrate mastery of the idiomatic and expressive resources of jazz and modern music instruments, using them orchestrally while controlling their aesthetically characteristic phrasing.
4. Differentiate and adapt instrumentation towards MIDI-based computer sequencing of arrangements.
5. Demonstrate precise understanding of the vertical-harmonic structures characteristic of jazz music.
6. Harmonize and reharmonize original or existing compositions with stylistic coherence.
7. Apply different techniques for jazz composition in diverse instrumental formats according to instrumental requirements, available resources, and other factors.
8. Adapt compositions to the required aesthetic demands, using harmonic colour as an expressive element as important as the melodic idea itself.

Contents

Symbols and formulas specific to each instrument. Rhythmic foundations. Particular characteristics of each instrument. Harmonic, constructive and instrumental elements and procedures specific to jazz and modern music. Instrumentation and arranging in different styles. Use of harmonic progressions oriented towards instrumentation. Orchestral combination of jazz and modern music instruments. Combination of modern music instruments in relation to the homophonic and polyphonic harmonic progressions characteristic of this repertoire.

Teaching methodology

The teaching-learning methodology in classes includes master classes (presentation of topics), discussion and colloquium sessions, group work sessions, and sessions in which students present topics. Independent work involves compositions, study of works and written assignments, carried out individually or in groups.

Assessment systems

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