Prerequisits i orientacions prèvies per cursar l’assignatura

Transversal Competences

CT8: To develop rationally and critically ideas and arguments.

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

General Competences

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

CG11: Be familiar with a broad and updated repertoire, centred on one’s specialty but open to other traditions. Recognise the stylistic features that characterise this repertoire and be able to describe them clearly and comprehensively.

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

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

Specific Competences

CO1: Know the main repertoires of the Western tradition and of other musical cultures, and acquire the ability to fully assess the expressive, syntactic, and sonic aspects of the corresponding works.

CO2: Acquire the necessary training to recognise and assess, both aurally and intellectually, different types of musical and sonic structures.

CO3: Analytically interpret the construction of musical works in all structural aspects and levels that constitute them.

CO10: Verbally convey a well‑structured theoretical, analytical, aesthetic, and critical judgement, beyond its application to the strictly compositional field.

MU1: Know the musical structure of works from different repertoires of the Western tradition and others, with the ability to fully assess their syntactic and sonic aspects.

MU6: Know the scientific research methods specific to the field and their applications.

MU7: Acquire critical capacity to assess the products of musical activity from different periods from a perspective that integrates artistic, historical, and social aspects.

Resultats de l’aprenentatge (objectius generals)

1. Develop an attitude and methodology for studying and approaching the musical work from an analytical and musical perspective, and critically assess the main analytical methodologies and their strengths and limitations in relation to the characteristics of the work under study.
   
2. Recognise the constructive and organisational elements of different works and trends of the 20th century, and assess the constructive and organisational elements used throughout the century, observing the consequences of their application.
   
3. Become familiar with the main analytical methodologies and assess their strengths and limitations in relation to the works under study.
   
4. Observe the various ways in which sonic material has been organised in relation to the intellectual currents of the time and its contribution to musical practice.
   
5. Demonstrate knowledge of the wide variety of musical activities and the different lines of thought in and about music in 20th‑century Western culture through historical and historiographical sources.
   
6. Identify the various styles, schools, technologies, and musical practices—both minority and popular—of the period, situated within their cultural context, and analyse their processes of transformation and dissemination.
   
7. Understand musical phenomena as an activity that must be conceived within the social and cultural life of a community, including the different conceptions of music, its functions and contexts of use, and the social attitudes and values it may convey.
   
8. Share spaces for debate and guided dialogue on the various methods and approaches through which musical form and construction develop in the works, authors, or trends under study.
   
9. Assess research work and develop working methodologies in the fields of theory, composition, and musical analysis based on dialogic and cooperative critical models.
   

Continguts

The cultural diversity of the 20th century and the compositional forms it generates: abstraction and “pure music”, neoclassicism, neomodality,expanded tonalities, polytonality, and the influence of historicist consciousness on musical forms. The avant‑gardes, conceptualism, microtonality, aleatoricism, indeterminacy, minimalism, post‑structuralism.. Instrumental colour, rhythm, jazz influences, ethnic musics, and electroacoustic music as generators of new languages and musical forms during the 20th century. Structural and formal analysis of various works and musical trends from the 20th century onwards. Observation and analysis of the various methods and elements used in the formal development of works. Relationship between the construction of the work and the intellectual currents of each period.

Metodologia d’impartició

The teaching–learning methodology includes lecture sessions (topic presentations), debate and discussion sessions, group‑work sessions, and student presentations. Autonomous work includes compositions, study of works, and written assignments, individually or in groups.

Sistemes d’avaluació

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