Competences developed in the course

Cross-cutting competencies:  

CT1: Organize and plan work in an efficient and motivating way.  

CT2: Gather significant information, analyze it, synthesize it, and manage it appropriately.  

CT3: Solve problems and make decisions that align with the objectives of the work being carried out.  

CT7: Use communication skills and constructive criticism in teamwork.  

CT8: Reasonably and critically develop ideas and arguments.  

CT9: Integrate appropriately into multidisciplinary teams and diverse cultural contexts.  

CT13: Adapt, under competitive conditions, to cultural, social, and artistic changes and to advances occurring in the professional field, and select appropriate continuing education pathways. 

General competencies:  

CG1: Know the theoretical principles of music and have adequately developed skills for recognizing, understanding, and memorizing musical material.  

CG2: Demonstrate adequate skills in musical reading, improvisation, creation, and recreation.    

CG3: Produce and interpret musical notation correctly. 

CG4: Recognize musical materials through the development of aural skills and apply these skills in professional practice.  

CG11: Be familiar with a broad, up-to-date repertoire centered on one’s specialty but open to other traditions. Recognize the stylistic features that characterize this repertoire and be able to describe them clearly and comprehensively. 

CG13: Know the foundations and structure of musical language and be able to apply them in interpretive, creative, research, or pedagogical practice.   

CG17: Be familiar with the different musical styles and practices that allow one to understand, in a broader cultural context, one’s own field of activity and enrich it.  

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

CG24: Develop capacities for self-training throughout their professional life. 

CG25: To know and be able to use study and research methodologies that enable continuous development and innovation of one’s musical activity throughout one’s career. 

Learning outcomes (general objectives)

1. Develop an analytical approach to musical works as a tool for exploring and understanding structural relationships, and use different analytical techniques and approaches to musical phenomena.  
2. Approach the main analytical methodologies and assess their suitability and limitations with respect to the works under study.  
3. Recognize and differentiate the fundamental constructive elements that form the organizational basis of the works and observe the resulting consequences.  
4. Acquire a greater awareness of the entire interpretive process, both from a historical and a contemporary perspective. 

Contents

Analysis of culturally and geographically diverse musical material that allows observing the interdependence between melody, its specific scale material, rhythm, and any resulting harmonic structures. Analysis of the relationship between the characteristics of the basic musical structures studied and the musical forms, instruments, and interpretive practices specific to each case. 

Teaching methodology

The teaching-learning methodology in classes involves lectures (presentation of topics), discussion and colloquium sessions, group work sessions, and student-led topic presentation sessions. Independent work involves compositions, works studies, and written assignments, either individually or in groups.  

Assessment systems

The assessment system is continuous assessment, based on diagnostic evaluation and materialized in a summative assessment that leads to the final grade. Continuous assessment is carried out through various assessment records derived from specific assessment activities such as participation and in-class work, presentations of assignments in class, the completion of assignments, compositions, analyses and/or out-of-class readings, the submission of written work, or the taking of written, oral, or listening tests.