Competences developed in the course

Transversal Competences

CT2: Collect significant information, analyse it, synthesise it and manage it appropriately.

CT13: Seek excellence and quality in professional activity.

General Competences

CG3: Produce and correctly interpret graphic notation of musical texts.

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

CG10: Argue and express verbally one’s viewpoints on diverse musical concepts.

CG13: Understand the foundations and structure of musical language and apply them in interpretative, creative, research or pedagogical 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.

CG15: Possess broad knowledge of the most representative works of historical and analytical music literature.

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

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

Specific Competences

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

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.

MU5: Know musical sources and the tools for accessing them, as well as the techniques necessary for their dissemination.

MU8: Argue and express in written and verbal form one’s viewpoints on interpretation, responding to the challenge of facilitating understanding of the musical work.

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.
4. Read different notations and assess interpretative theories related to medieval music, establishing similarities and differences with other liturgical chants.

Contents

History and periodisation of activities and thought related to music of the period within its social and cultural context. Schools, compositional and interpretative styles, and processes of transformation. Research methodologies specifically aimed at the notations of this period, and corresponding documentary and historiographical sources. Analysis of musical activities and products. Analysis and transcription of musical notations from various styles of the era. Analysis of documents concerning musical activity and its environment. Placement of musical interpretations of the period within their corresponding cultural context.

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.