Competences developed in the course

Transversal Competences

CT7: Use communication skills and constructive criticism in teamwork.

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

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

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 significant values.

General Competences

CG1: Know the theoretical principles of music and have adequately developed the skills required to recognize, understand and memorize musical material.

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

CG4: Recognize musical materials through the development of aural skills and apply these skills in professional practice.

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

CG11: Be familiar with a broad and up-to-date repertoire, centred on their own specialization but open to other traditions. Recognize the stylistic features that characterize this repertoire and describe them clearly and comprehensively.

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

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

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

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

CG17: Be familiar with different musical styles and practices that enable them to understand and enrich their own field of activity within a broader cultural context.

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

Specific Competences

IN6: Argue and express verbally their views on musical performance, while addressing the challenge of facilitating understanding of the musical work.

Learning outcomes (general objectives)

1. Develop an approach and study methodology for musical works from analytical and musical perspectives, and critically evaluate the main analytical methodologies, together with their strengths and limitations in relation to the characteristics of the work under study.
2. Become familiar with the principal analytical methodologies and assess their strengths and limitations with respect to the works under study.
3. Examine the different ways in which musical material has been organized in relation to the intellectual currents of each historical period and to its contribution to musical practice.
4. Participate in supervised discussions and debates on the various methods and approaches through which musical form and construction are developed in the works, composers or stylistic trends under study. Describe, through aural observation, the origin, instrumental or vocal scoring, style, historical period, composer or school of any highly complex musical excerpt.
5. Recognize and describe, through listening, the melodic, rhythmic, harmonic, timbral and formal parameters contained in a highly complex musical composition.

Contents

Structural and formal analysis of works from different periods of tonal music with limited chromatic content. Observation and analysis of the various elements and procedures employed in the development of musical works. Relationship between the construction of the work and the intellectual currents of each historical period.

Teaching methodology

The teaching and learning methodology combines lectures (topic presentations) with seminar-style discussions and debates based on students’ interpretations. Independent work consists of preparing each class session and leading the presentation of one session.

Assessment systems

The assessment system 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 records derived from specific assessment activities, including class participation and engagement, in-class presentations, analytical assignments and/or readings completed outside class, submission of written assignments, and written, oral or listening examinations.