Competences developed in the course

Transferable skills: 

CT7: Use communication skills and constructive criticism in teamwork.  

CT8: Reasonably and critically develop ideas and arguments.  

CT12: Adapt to cultural, social and artistic changes and to advances in the professional field under competitive conditions, and select appropriate pathways for continuing professional development.  

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

General competencies: 

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

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

CG3: Correctly produce and interpret the graphic notation of musical texts.  

CG4: Recognise musical materials through the development of aural skills and be able to apply these skills in professional practice.  

CG5: Be familiar with the technological resources specific to their field of activity and their applications in music, preparing themselves to assimilate any new developments in the field.  

CG10: Argue and verbally express one’s points of view on various musical concepts.  

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

CG12: Demonstrate a 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 be able to apply them in interpretative, creative, research or pedagogical practice.  

CG15: Have extensive knowledge of the most representative works in the historical and analytical music literature.  

CG17: Be familiar with the different musical styles and practices that allow them to understand, in a broader cultural context, their own field of activity and enrich it.  

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

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

CG21: Create and shape one’s own artistic concepts, having developed the ability to express oneself through them using assimilated techniques and resources.  

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

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

Specific competencies: 

IN1: Perform the significant repertoire of their specialism, appropriately addressing the aspects that identify it in its stylistic diversity.  

IN2: Construct a coherent and original interpretative concept.  

IN6: Argue and express one’s views on interpretation verbally, as well as respond to the challenge of facilitating understanding of the musical work.  

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

Learning outcomes (general objectives)

1. Arrange for the instruments of the rhythm section (drums, percussion, acoustic and electric bass, piano, keyboards and guitar) in a distinctive manner, using harmonic and rhythmic sequences characteristic of jazz and modern music. 
2. Use the appropriate technical resources, including the construction of harmonic progressions in homophonic and polyphonic voicings (two, three and four voices) over harmonic foundations, with a view to instrumentation. 
3. Demonstrate mastery of the idiomatic and expressive resources of instruments in jazz and modern music, knowing how to use them orchestrally and controlling the phrasing that is aesthetically appropriate. 
4. Differentiate and orient the instrumentation towards the computerised sequencing of arrangements via MIDI. 
5. Demonstrate the precise ability for the vertical-harmonic understanding characteristic of jazz music. 
6. To harmonise and reharmonise original or existing compositions with stylistic coherence. 
7. Differentiate and apply various techniques for jazz composition to instrumental ensembles of diverse formats, according to instrumental needs and availability, and other factors. 
8. To adaptt heir works to the necessary aesthetic demands, using harmonic colour as an element as important for expression as the melodic idea itself. 

Contents

Symbolisms and formulas specific to each instrument. Rhythmic foundations. The peculiarities of each instrument. Harmonic, constructive and instrumental elements and procedures specific to jazz and modern music. Instrumentation and arrangement in different styles. Use of harmonic progressions oriented towards instrumentation. Orchestral combination of the instruments in jazz music. Combination of the instruments in modern music in relation to the homophonic and polyphonic harmonic progressions that are characteristic of it. 

Teaching methodology

The teaching-learning methodology in classes involves lectures (presentations of topics), discussion and colloquium sessions, group work sessions and student presentations of topics. Autonomous work involves compositions, study of works and written assignments, either individually or in groups. 

Assessment systems

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