Main Instrument


Type: Compulsory (OB)

Area: Instrument/voice

ECTS: Between 93 and 112 (depending on the modality)

Classroom hours: 150
Other contact hours: 40 - 120
Time for directed work (non face-to-face): max 180
Hours for self-study and independent learning: 2.340 -3.170 (depending on modality)

Department: Classical and montemporary music, Early Music, Jazz, Flamenco, Popular and Traditional Catalan Music

Competences developed in the course

 

Transversal competences
CT1 Organize and plan the work in an efficient and motivating way.
CT3 Solve problems and make decisions that respond to the objectives of the work being performed.
CT6 Self-criticism of one’s own professional and interpersonal performance.
CT8 To develop rationally and critically ideas and arguments.
CT11 To develop in the work practice a professional ethic based on aesthetic, environmental and diversity appreciation and sensibility.
CT12 To adapt, in competitive conditions, to cultural, social and artistic changes and developments that occur in the professional field and to select the appropriate itineraries of continuing education.
CT13 To seek excellence and quality in their professional activity.
CT15 Work independently and value the importance of initiative and entrepreneurship in professional practice.
CT17 To contribute with their professional activity to the social awareness of the importance of cultural heritage, its impact in different fields and its capacity to generate significant values.
General competences
CG1 To understand the theoretical principles of music and to have adequately developed aptitudes for the recognition, comprehension and memorization of musical material.
CG2 To show adequate aptitudes for reading, improvisation, musical creation and recreation.
CG3 Produce and execute correctly the graphic notation of musical texts.
CG4 To recognize musical materials thanks to the development of the auditory capacity and to know how to apply this capacity to their professional practice.
CG6 Master one or more musical instruments at a level appropriate to their main field of activity.
CG7 Demonstrate the ability to interact musically in different types of participatory musical projects.
CG8 Apply the most appropriate work methods to overcome the challenges that arise in the field of personal study and in the collective musical practice.
CG9 To know the characteristics of the main instrument, in relation to its construction and acoustics, historical evolution and mutual influences with other disciplines.
CG11 To be familiar with a wide and updated repertoire, focused on their specialty but open to other traditions. Recognize the stylistic traits that characterize this repertoire and be able to describe them clearly and completely.
CG17 To be familiar with the different musical styles and practices that allow him/her to understand, in a wider cultural context, his/her own field of activity and to enrich it.
CG19 To know the pedagogical and educational implications of music at different levels.
CG20 To know the classification, acoustic, historical and anthropological characteristics of musical instruments.
CG21 Create and give shape to their own artistic concepts having developed the ability to express themselves through them from assimilated techniques and resources.
CG22 To have wide and diverse musical resources to be able to create or adapt musical pieces as well as to improvise in different contexts from the knowledge of styles, formats, techniques, tendencies and diverse languages.
CG23 To value musical creation as the action of giving sonorous form to a rich and complex structural thought.
CG24 To develop skills for self-training during their professional life.
CG25 To know and be able to use study and research methodologies that will enable him/her to continuously develop and innovate his/her musical activity throughout his/her career.
CG26 To be able to link one’s own musical activity to other disciplines of scientific and humanistic thought, to the arts in general and to other musical disciplines in particular, enriching the exercise of one’s profession with a multidisciplinary dimension.
Specific competences
IN1 To interpret the significant repertoire of their specialty, dealing adequately with the aspects that identify it in its stylistic diversity.
IN2 To build a coherent and own interpretative idea.
IN3 Demonstrate the ability to interact musically in all types of participatory musical projects, from duo to large ensembles.
IN4 To express oneself musically with one’s Instrument/Veu in a way based on the knowledge and mastery of instrumental and corporal technique, as well as in the acoustic and organological characteristics and in the stylistic variations.
IN5 Communicate, as a performer, the musical structures, ideas and materials with rigor.
IN6 To argue and express verbally their points of view about the interpretation, as well as to respond to the challenge of facilitating the understanding of the musical work.
IN7 Develop reading and improvisation skills on musical material.
IN9 To know the processes and resources of orchestral and other ensemble work, to dominate adequately the sight-reading, to show flexibility in front of the conductor’s indications and the ability to integrate into the group.
IN10 To know the scenic implications of their professional activity and to be able to develop their practical applications.

Learning outcomes (general objectives)

  1. Master the chosen instrumental modality, striking a balance between the need for specialization and the necessary versatility and complementarity.
  2. To interpret all types of repertoire associated with the chosen instrument or group of instruments with stylistically diversified interpretative criteria.
  3. To have the tools and resources to access new repertoires efficiently and quickly.
  4. To build a solid interpretative base, based not only on a rich theoretical and practical background, but also on one’s own contributions and critical attitudes, and on a wide range of experiences.
  5. To show communicative ability, in a personalized way, in a wide variety of interpretative situations.
  6. Acquire a use of the body adequate to the demands of the chosen instrument.
  7. Decide and work on the repertoire of a representative concert of the range and modality.
  8. Perform a final degree concert.

Contents

Classical and contemporary music field

Elements of public interpretation in different contexts and situations. Specificities linked to rich and heterogeneous repertoires. Non conventional notations. Instrumental application of all previous learning. Communicative, expressive and technical skills. Application of the elements that make up the interpretation in different contexts, taking into account stylistic specificities of the repertoire and desired results. Sight reading. Application and harmonic integration in the interpretative act of the necessary bodily stresses in relation to the instrument. Adaptation and integration to different musical and professional situations. Interpretation with stylistic criteria.

Jazz and modern music field

Specific phrasing and meter of the different jazz styles. Elements that configure the interpretation in the repertoires and contexts of jazz or modern music. Instrumental techniques applied to jazz interpretation and improvisation. Melodic elaboration (“patterns”) and improvised performed on harmonic bases of jazz or modern music formal structures. Communicative, expressive and technical skills. Application of the elements that make up the interpretation in different contexts, taking into account stylistic specificities of the repertoire and desired results. Specificities linked to rich and heterogeneous repertoires.

Early Music field

Particularities of the historical instrument and differences with its modern relative. In-depth knowledge of the specific historical sources of the instrument. Elements that shape performance in the repertoires and contexts of early music.

Specific technique of the historical instrument. Maintenance and tuning. Application of appropriate historical criteria to the performance of the antique repertoire.

Communicative abilities. Sight-reading. Interpretation from original or facsimile notations. Application of the elements that make up the interpretation in different contexts, taking into account stylistic specificities of the repertoire and desired results. Adaptation and integration to the most diverse musical and professional situations.

Traditional music field

Elements of the interpretation of the repertoires of our own musical tradition in different contexts and situations. Specificities linked to rich and heterogeneous repertoires. Evolution, change and permanence in the repertoires and performance of traditional music.

Instrumental application of all previous learning. Communicative, expressive and technical skills. Application of the knowledge of the different styles of the musical tradition studied to an appropriate interpretation. Application of the elements that make up interpretation in different contexts. Application and harmonic integration in the interpretative act of the necessary bodily stresses in relation to the instrument. Specificities linked to rich and heterogeneous repertoires.

Teaching methodology

The teaching-learning methodology in the classes involves monitoring the student’s progress and guidance. Autonomous work involves personal study and preparation of the materials to be worked on in class.

Assessment systems

The assessment system is based on continuous assessment, based on a diagnostic assessment and a summative assessment that leads to the final qualification. Continuous assessment is carried out by means of different assessment records derived from specific assessment activities such as progress in class and the performance of auditions or concerts.

There is a qualification for each four-month period (8). The assessment of the 8th four-month period, however, is carried out through a single assessment activity, which is the Final Recital/Concert, with a panel of three teachers.