ESMUC Publications

The Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya publishes scientific articles and collaborates in artistic research books.

JournalsBooks
Compilation of the ESMUC Supplements on the RMC

Between December 2005 and June 2011, Esmuc collaborated with an eight-page color supplement within the Revista Musical Catalana.

Compilation of the ESMUC Supplements on the RMC 2005-2006
Compilation of the ESMUC Supplements on the RMC 2007
Compilation of the ESMUC Supplements on the RMC 2008
Compilation of the ESMUC Supplements on the RMC 2009
Compilation of the ESMUC Supplements on the RMC 2010
Compilation of the ESMUC Supplements on the RMC 2011

ESMUC Digital

From September 2011, and until April 2020, the School published the ESMUC digital magazine. The magazine had an Editorial Board that decided on the various topics to address and evaluated the articles; and was made up of representatives from various areas and departments of the school.

La música cuenta. Retórica, narratividad, dramaturgia, cuerpo y afectos

Project with the support of the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes

Rubén López Cano (Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya)

Portada del llibre La música cuenta

Music is not a collection of inert and passive sound objects. It is a way of navigating through time, through tensions and relaxations, retentions and propulsions, speed changes and accelerations, doubts, blows and outbursts, terrifying exclamations or cries of joy that emerge from its always-moving surface. All music seems to want to go somewhere by crossing different emotional zones. It often creates in our minds and hearts the feeling that listening to it is like going through intense states similar to those of theatrical dramas or literary narratives.

La música cuenta proposes strategies based on tools from rhetoric, semiotics and hermeneutics for the study of the expressive meaning of music. Rather than -or in addition to- the structures or macroformal configuration of the analysed pieces, it seeks to unravel the mechanisms that make each musical piece a small drama, an encapsulated piece of time that traps us with its internal conflicts.

The book is especially dedicated to anyone involved in musical performance and seeks to offer tools to imagine musical performances that are intense, exciting and full of personalised expressive intent It aims to provide instruments for the analysis, artistic interpretation or performative analysis of music.

The book and the research work on which it is based have been co-financed by the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya and the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes de México

Actes del Fòrum Educació Musical al s. XXI (any 2021)

Actas del Fórum educación musical en el siglo xxi: Innovación y tecnología para la educación musical (5 and 6 July, 2021).

Actas Forum Esmuc