Competences developed in the course

Transversal competences:

CT1: Organise and plan work efficiently and in a motivating way.

CT5: Understand and use at least one foreign language in the field of professional development.

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

CT14: Master research methodology in the generation of projects, ideas and viable solutions.

General competences:

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

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

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

CG26: Be capable of linking one’s musical activity to other disciplines of scientific and humanistic thought, to the arts in general and to other musical disciplines in particular, enriching professional practice with a multidisciplinary dimension.

Learning outcomes (general objectives)

1. Identify and classify the different conceptions and philosophical positions in the Western world regarding musical activities, always in relation to contemporary social and cultural contexts.
2. Conceptualise, argue and verbally convey criteria, options and decisions applied in interpretative practice or in the critical evaluation of auditions and musical ideas of aesthetic, ideological, social, historical or technical nature.
3. Present in a synthetic and structured way ideas, trends and various artistic projects incorporating concepts and strategies from the field of group communication.

Contents

Significance of musical activity within a human community.
Main lines of aesthetic thought on music in the history of the Western world.
Main bibliographic sources.
Western aesthetics and other cultural traditions.
Understanding of the most important texts of Western aesthetics on music and the arts in general.
Documentary and historiographical sources for the study of musical aesthetics.
Overview of the diversity of schools and thought around music and the musical phenomenon.
Concepts and semantic derivations.
Expressive relationships between musical and verbal language.
Argumentative strategies and formal structuring of discourse.
Public presentation of diverse ideas or themes.

Teaching methodology

The teaching‑learning methodology in the classes is based on lecture sessions for content development, debate and discussion sessions, group work sessions and student presentations.
Students’ autonomous work consists of individual and group tasks.

Assessment systems

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