Musical Research in Contemporary Urban Environments
Code: 40829 ECTS Credits: 10| Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4312637 Musicology, Musical Education and Interpretation of Early Music | OT | 0 | 0 |
Contact
- Name:
- Francesc D Assi Cortes Mir
- Email:
- Francesc.Cortes@uab.cat
Use of Languages
- Principal working language:
- catalan (cat)
Teachers
- César Calmell Piguillem
- Xavier Daufí i Rodergas
External teachers
- Enric Riu
- Oriol Pérez Treviño
Prerequisites
The students should demonstrate a good level of musical analysis.
During the course, it will be desired to strengthen the knowledge of the contemporary thought, specificaly the aesthetic movements, the artistic languages and the main sociopolitical movements.
Objectives and Contextualisation
- Compare the different methodologies of the last 30 years, in the study of the musical activities in the contemporary societies, primarly in the urban environment.
- Knowledge of the musical and historical analysis methodologies, through the contemporary era in urban environment.
- Connect the contemporary musical systems with the production and reception contexts.
- Realize the procedures regulating the relationship between the different artistic languages in contemporary era.
- Knowledge of the procedures of social tampering over the music, primarly during the time of politic confilcts.
- Knowledge of the production systems in the lyric theatre.
- Understand the interrelationship between the musical language and other artistic or literary languages in contemporary era.
Competences
- Analyze music according to cultural areas and according to the social contexts in which they arise and develop by applying it to research and interpretive projects.
- Applying critical projects musicological research and interpretive projects.
- Consider innovative projects musicological research and interpretive projects.
- Distinguish and apply different methodologies musicological research and research in music education-oriented projects.
- To analyze the different contexts (social, economic, historical, artistic) involved in the music profession to develop appropriate research work.
Learning Outcomes
- Adapt the results of contextual analysis of the study of contemporary urban environment where different social realities involved
- Apply critical capacity in musicological research projects and interpretive projects.
- Apply research methodologies prior to every type of music research project in the contemporary urban environment.
- Compare methodological procedures developed in the last three decades in the study of complex musical activity of contemporary societies, and especially in urban environments.
- Distinguish the distinctive characteristics of the various musical cultures of the contemporary urban environment
- Mastering historiographical analysis tools adapted to the study of urban music
- Propose innovative projects proposed in musicological research and interpretive projects.
- Relate contemporary music systems with their contexts of production and reception
Content
1. Musicology, Contemporaneity and Digital Humanities
1.1. "The multi-disciplinary methodology of musical analysis".
1.2. "Connections between music, literature and arts: diversity of methdologies".
1.3. "An exemple of connection between literature and music during the irruption of self identity in the contemporary world: Diderot versus Rameau".
1.4. "Influence of the literature and philosophy over Romantic music".
1.5. "Wagner and Gesamtkunstwerk: reflections over the literature and plastic arts at the beginning of XXth".
1.6. What's Digital Humanities? Some implementations in the current musicology.
1.7. The musical edition: a tool, a method, an skill?
1.8. Audiobranding: currently areas.
2. The musical analysis, and his use on the study of lyricial repertoire during the XIXth and XXth centuries.
2.1. Musical Analysis and image: the Granados case.
2.2. Different tecniques of musical analysis and the opera.
2.3. The oratory as musical genre during contemporary: the representation without stage.
2.4. The scientific research in music and dissemination nowadays.
2.5. Musicology and Press: dissemination at the service of the research and vice versa.
2.6. Music and Politics: the Third Reich.
Methodology
The topics will be based on three main subjects:
a) the connection between different artitic languages
b) the music and the involvement genres (dances, music hall, zarzuela, operetta and varieties)
c) the dissemination of the musical research through the society
Some of the lessons will be done in musical archives of Barcelona (SGAE, Biblioteca de Catalunya), for the study of different cases.
This Unit has a virtual Moodle. There will be published the calendar and several pedagogical documents.
Activities
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Lessons | 38 | 1.52 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 |
| Practice of musical analysis | 14 | 0.56 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Case practice, in archives | 14 | 0.56 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 |
| Dissemination practices | 8 | 0.32 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 |
| Doctorial seminaries | 4 | 0.16 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 |
| Tutorial class | 4 | 0.16 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Musical analysis and Commentaries | 60 | 2.4 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 |
| Study of the musical patrimony | 16 | 0.64 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 |
| Text reading | 18 | 0.72 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 |
Assessment
We propose three courseworks:
a) composition of a brief study of a musical piece connected with other artistic languages.
b) a musical analysis over the same partition.
c) writing of a synopsis of a lyrical plot
Time of completion: wil be published in the Moodle.
Reappraisal: The works submited after the dead line can not be reassessed. The reappraisal of a coursework needs a prior discussion in the seminaries. The courseworks failed could be submited again. it's necessary pass the three courseworks. A student could be "no assessed" when any of the works has not be submited.
Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Analytical work | 30 % | 17 | 0.68 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 |
| Summary of a plot | 30% | 40 | 1.6 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 |
| Work around the relationship between a piece of music with another artistic language | 40% | 17 | 0.68 | 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 |
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Lyric Repertoire in Spain: short Bibliography
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- Centre de Documentació i Museu de les Arts Escèniques (Institut del Teatre, Barcelona). http://www.cdmae.cat
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Music and social conflict: Bibliography
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- Stage and Music: Bibliography
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