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Sonology Curriculum

Subjects marked with an asterisk (*) are NOT offered each year. Check current schedules.

Subjects and Subjects	1st year		2nd year		3rd year		4th year		Total
Subjects and Subjects	ECTS	h	ECTS	h	ECTS	h	ECTS	h	ECTS	h
Culture, thought and history (FB)
Music and culture I, II andIII	6	90	3	45					9	135
Professional development							3	45	3	45
Aesthetics					4	60			4	60
Languages and music technique (FB)
Fundamentals of acoustics	3	45							3	45
Music analysis methodologies	4	45							4	45
General auditory perception	3	45							3	45
Fundamentals of composition	4	45							4	45
Complementary instrumental training (OB)
Secondary tool 1 a 6	4	15	4	15	4	15			12	45
Interpretation by electronic means I and II							6	60	6	60
Ensemble music (OB)
Cor	2	45							2	45
Instrumental ensemble 1 a 4	4	45	2	22,5	2	22,5			8	90
Acoustics (OB)
Organology	3	30							3	30
Acoustics and organology I and II*			3	30	3	30			6	60
Enclosure acoustics *					4	30			4	30
Psychoacoustics	3	30							3	30
Specific technical training (OB)
Physics and mathematics for music I and II	6	60							6	60
Sound laboratoriesI i III and II i IV			6	30	6	30			12	60
Seminars I, II, III and IV					4	22,5	4	22,5	8	45
Programming techniques	3	30	3	30	3	30			9	90
Applied technologies (OB)
Recording and post-production techniques	2	30	6	60	4	30			12	120
Electronics I and II	3	30	3	30					6	60
Electrical engineering			6	60					6	60
Sound analysis, synthesis and processing I, II and III*			6	60	4	30			10	90
Sound design*					4	30			4	30
Live sound*			3	30					3	30
Technologies for music research							3	30	3	30
Music technology (OB)
Introduction to music technology	2	30							2	30
Editing scores with computer media	2	30							2	30
Music computing I and II	6	60							6	60
Critical perception (OB)
Specific auditory perception			2	45					2	45
Critical listening I and II*					2	20	2	20	4	40
Theory and history (OB)
Electroacoustic composition I			3	45					3	45
History of the music of the 20th and 21st centuries			4	45					4	45
Composition for audiovisual media I					3	45			3	45
Repertoire and techniques of electroacoustic music*					4	45			4	45
Computer aided composition I							3	45	3	45
Production and management (OB)
Communication techniques*							4	45	4	45
Technology applied to production and dissemination I*			3	30					3	30
Production of concerts and musical events			3	30					3	30
Entrepreneurship and business creation							3	30	3	30
Practices (OB)
Internal practices I and II					4	10	6	10	10	20
Sonology practicum							6	10	6	10
Optional subjects (OP)
Optional credits					3	45	12	180	15	225
Final work (TFG)
Research methodologies					2	30			2	30
Final degree project							8	15	8	15
TOTAL	60	705	60	607,5	60	525	60	512,5	240	2350