Competences developed in the course

Transversal Competences

CT2: Collect, analyse, synthesise and manage relevant information effectively.

CT17: Contribute through professional activity to raising social awareness of the importance of cultural heritage, its impact across different fields, and its capacity to generate significant values.

General Competences

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

CG11: Be familiar with a broad and up-to-date repertoire, centred on their own specialisation but open to other traditions. Recognise the stylistic features that characterise this repertoire and describe them clearly and comprehensively.

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

Specific Competences

MU1: Understand the musical structure of works from the different repertoires of the Western tradition and other musical traditions, with the ability to evaluate fully their syntactic and sonic features.

MU7: Develop the critical capacity to evaluate the products of musical activity from different historical periods from a perspective that integrates artistic, historical and social dimensions.

Learning outcomes (general objectives)

1. Develop an approach and study methodology for musical works from analytical and musical perspectives, and critically evaluate the principal analytical methodologies, together with their strengths and limitations in relation to the characteristics of the work under study.
2. Become familiar with the principal analytical methodologies and assess their strengths and limitations with respect to the works under study.
3. Understand musical notation as a tool that should be adapted to the specific objectives of each research project.

Contents

Methodologies of musical analysis appropriate to the diverse aims and purposes of musicological research. Uses and evaluations of musical analysis throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, together with the underlying modes of thought inherent in these practices and critical approaches. Analytical skills applied to the historical and social critique of sound phenomena and musical experiences.

Teaching methodology

The teaching and learning methodology combines lectures (topic presentations), seminar-style discussions and debates, group work sessions, and student presentations.

Assessment systems