Competences developed in the course

Transversal Competences

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

CT13: Seek excellence and quality in professional activity.

General Competences

CG4: Recognise musical materials through the development of auditory capacity and apply this ability in professional practice.

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

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

CG16: Understand the social, cultural and economic context in which musical practice develops, with particular attention to the immediate environment but also to its global dimension.

Specific Competences

MU2: Understand the artistic, historical and social conditions in which musical creation and interpretative practice have developed.

MU3: Understand musical materials, historical and modern compositional techniques, instruments, their construction, acoustics and other organological characteristics.

Learning outcomes (general objectives)

1. Explain musical activities and musical thought of the period in Europe through different historical and historiographical sources: musical documents and documents and objects related to musical activities.
2. Identify and analyse the various styles, schools and musical practices of the period, situated within their cultural context, and explain their processes of transformation.
3. Apply research methodologies (including transcription and analysis) specifically related to the music of the period.

Contents

History and periodisation of activities and thought related to audiovisual music within its social and cultural context. Schools, compositional and interpretative styles, and processes of transformation. Research methodologies specifically aimed at corresponding documentary and historiographical sources. Analysis of musical activities and products. Analysis of documents concerning musical activity and its environment.

Teaching methodology

Teaching–learning methodology includes lectures (topic presentations), group work sessions and student presentations. Autonomous work includes compositions, recording practices and other individual or group tasks.

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, compositions, practical exercises, submission of written work or written, oral or listening examinations.