Competences developed in the course

Transversal Competences

CT6: Exercise self‑criticism regarding one’s professional and interpersonal performance.

General Competences

CG7: Demonstrate the ability to interact musically in different types of participatory musical projects.

CG8: Apply the most appropriate working methods to overcome challenges in personal study and collective musical practice.

CG17: Be familiar with different musical styles and practices that allow understanding and enriching one’s field of activity within a broader cultural context.

CG19: Understand the pedagogical and educational implications of music at different levels.

CG21: Create and shape personal artistic concepts, developing the ability to express oneself through assimilated techniques and resources.

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

CG25: Understand and use study and research methodologies that enable continuous development and innovation in musical activity.

Specific Competences

PE4: Acquire technical mastery and expressive capacity in interpretation and in leading vocal and instrumental ensembles, as a basis for improvisation, creation and experimentation with one’s instrument, voice and body in specific teaching/learning situations.

PE8: Engage actively in educational‑musical projects through cooperative work and assume responsibility for developing the musical education profession as a collective task.

Learning outcomes (general objectives)

1. Acquire a use of the body appropriate to the demands of the chosen instrument.
2. Apply all acquired communicative capacities to interpretation in a personalised manner.
3. Acquire knowledge and mastery of the body and one’s own personality.
4. Develop expressive and communicative capacity through rhythm, bodily movement and music.
5. Experiment and explore through sensoriality and perception.
6. Integrate bodily experiences with anatomy and physiology.
7. Stimulate, understand and develop psycho‑physical awareness.
8. Recognise bodily habits in order to act efficiently and with economy of effort.
9. Value and make use of personal communicative qualities in specific situations.
10. Develop bodily availability as an instrument of cooperation, creation, expression and communication.
11. Understand and comprehend the foundations of several approaches to bodywork.

Contents

General experiential anatomy applied to music professionals. Dynamic bodily organisation in relation to gravity, space and movement. Respiratory gesture, spontaneous breathing, organicity and integrated adaptation to action. Spontaneous internal movement. Osteo‑articular and nervous systems. Joint mobility, coordination, flexibility and muscular tonicity. Perceptive and proprioceptive capacities. Psycho‑physical awareness. Learning “non‑doing” to avoid psycho‑physical interferences during musical activity. Economy of effort and release of unnecessary tension. Activity‑rest and tension‑relaxation relationships. Recognition of bodily habits and exploration of new ways of perceiving and acting. Semiotics of the static and dynamic body in integral personal development. Metacognition and self‑knowledge. Cooperation. Music as a creative, expressive and communicative stimulus. Introduction to several approaches and traditions of bodywork. Breathing.

Teaching methodology

In individual classes, teaching–learning methodology involves monitoring student progress and providing guidance. Autonomous work includes personal study and preparation of pieces to be worked on in class.
In collective classes, methodology includes group work sessions, collective practice and body‑awareness classes. Autonomous work involves applying these contents to instrumental practice.

Assessment systems

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 activities such as class participation and work, presentation of assignments, completion of tasks and/or readings outside class, submission of written work or written and oral examinations.