Music Management
Code: 100651 ECTS Credits: 6| Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2500240 Musicology | OB | 2 | 2 |
Contact
- Name:
- Gabrielle Kaufman
- Email:
- GabrielleEmelie.Kaufman@uab.cat
Use of Languages
- Principal working language:
- catalan (cat)
- Some groups entirely in English:
- No
- Some groups entirely in Catalan:
- Yes
- Some groups entirely in Spanish:
- No
Teachers
- Publio Pablo Delgado Fernandez de Heredia
Prerequisites
Proficiency in Catalan and Spanish. English reading comprehension is recommended.
Objectives and Contextualisation
Students are expected to:
- Be familiar with the essential techniques and tools for online investigation and how to manage information with a critical mind-set
- Know how to communicate different types of musicological content and to adapt the presentation to different contexts and audiences
- Be able to reflect upon music as an activity and to create texts for dissemination and academic purposes
- Be familiar with the basic concepts of legality and fiscality within the music industry as well as the current options for project funding.
- Know how to develop a project related to musical events or products.
- Acquire the tools for self-producing and self-editing an independent discographic project.
- Be familiar with the role of a musical producer, his work and its importance before and during a recording.
Competences
- Apply management strategies related to the programming, production and dissemination of musical events.
- Developing critical thinking and reasoning and communicating them effectively both in your own and other languages.
- Producing innovative and competitive proposals in research and professional activity.
- Relate concepts and information from different humanistic, scientific and social disciplines, especially the interactions which are established between music and philosophy, history, art, literature and anthropology.
- Respecting the diversity and plurality of ideas, people and situations.
- Students must be capable of collecting and interpreting relevant data (usually within their area of study) in order to make statements that reflect social, scientific or ethical relevant issues.
- Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
- Students must develop the necessary learning skills to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.
- Students must have and understand knowledge of an area of study built on the basis of general secondary education, and while it relies on some advanced textbooks it also includes some aspects coming from the forefront of its field of study.
Learning Outcomes
- Analysing a contemporary fact and relating it to its historical background.
- Carry out all phases of anevents management project.
- Carry out knowledge transfer projects planned and scientifically based on the area of musical management.
- Carrying out a planning for the development of a subject-related work.
- Demostrate creative and innovative skills in the area of professional application of musicological training.
- Design and monitor musical events.
- Detect possible fields of innovation and improvement for proposals of cultural and leisure management.
- Develop organisational skills for transfer to the area of cultural and leisure management in musicology.
- Engaging in debates about historical facts respecting the other participants' opinions.
- Establishing relationships between science, philosophy, art, religion, politics, etc.
- Evaluate and develop musical events.
- Integrate musical creation and praxis in the programming and marketing of musical activity.
- Interpret the rules localized information on the websites of regulatory bodies on the Internet.
- Interrelate methodological concepts and innovations of music and of humanities with the set of humanistic disciplines in activities of musical and cultural management.
- Personally and critically transfer knowledge acquired in the field of musicology to the pertinent professional and work environments.
- Plan and and organise musical events.
- Relate the role of music with other activities involved in the management of musical events.
- Solving problems autonomously.
- Write critical papers on musicology that are planned and organised efficiently.
Content
Section I: Legal and Economic Management
Intellectual Propriety law: Basic concepts, application and an overview of the history.
Fiscality in the Music Industry: Contracting, budgeting and basic fiscal management.
Funding in Music projects: microfunding, patronage, scholarships and grant.
Section II: Artistic Management
Edition and Publication: The editorial process. Types of publication and the process of writing academic and non-academic articles.
Information management: Investigation tools and information management in the digital era.
Management and Dissemination of Musical heritage: Basic management concepts related to musical heritage and its dissemination.
Music Review and Communication: Basic concepts related to reception, musical review and communication in the professional realm. Oral communication skills.
Music and Artistic Production: What is a producer and what is his function. The history of music production. The work in the studio of a musician and a producer.
Music self-management: self-production and self-edition. Management and communication. Social platform management.
Methodology
Teacher-led classes that can be complemented with lectures by external experts.
Teacher-led monitoring sessions and tutoring.
During the teacher-led sessions there will be different activities or tasks to accomplish, either individually or in small groups, related to the course content. These activities could take place both in the class room and on moodle.
Students are required to develop a management project in small groups: a concert cycle, festival, recording, publication, product development etc.
The presentation of the group project needs to include both a written report and an oral presentation.
Activities
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Lessons: practice and theory | 45 | 1.8 | 1, 10, 13, 9, 15 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Monitoring and presentation preparation, management project | 10 | 0.4 | 11, 5, 3, 7, 6, 2, 16 |
| Tutoring | 6 | 0.24 | 11, 5, 8, 3, 7, 6, 2, 4, 13, 16, 19 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Activities and tasks | 15 | 0.6 | 1, 5, 3, 7, 10, 9, 14, 17, 18, 15 |
| Development of a management project | 30 | 1.2 | 11, 8, 6, 2, 4, 12, 16, 19, 17, 18 |
| Personal study, reading and preparation | 41 | 1.64 | 10, 12, 19, 14, 18, 15 |
Assessment
There will be continuous assessment for this course.
In the event that tests or exams cannot be taken onsite, they will be adapted to an online format made available through the UAB’s virtual tools (original weighting will be maintained). Homework, activities and class participation will be carried out through forums, wikis and/or discussion on Teams, etc. Lecturers will ensure that students are able to access these virtual tools, or will offer them feasible alternatives.
ACTIVITITES OR TASKS (20%)
Different activities or tasks related to the course material will be required during the course of the classes, either in the class room or on moodle.
These activities cannot be reevaluated once the established presentation period has terminated.
GROUP ASSIGNMENT (30%)
There is a required group assignment for this course, the assessment of which will include both a written and an oral presentation. A minimum grade (4) is required for the group assignment in order to pass the course and no reevaluation is accepted beyond the established presentation period.
ASSESSMENT PRODUCTION (20%)
There will be a written assignment to hand in for part of the course curricula before the end of term. A minimum grade (4) is required for this assignment in order to pass the course. If the grade does not reach a 4, the student has the right to be reevaluated in June.
EXAM OR FINAL ASSIGNMENT (30%)
There will be a final exam or assignment at the end of the semester.
A minimum grade (4) is required for the exam in order to pass the course. If the grade does not reach a 4, the student has the right to be reevaluated in June.
Any additional details regarding assessment and other details of the course will be published on the moodle page of the course at the beginning of the semester.
In the event of a student committing any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation in the grade awarded to an assessment activity, the student will be given a zero for this activity, regardless of any disciplinary process that may take place. In the event of several irregularities in assessment activities of the same subject, the student will be given a zero as the final grade for this subject.
Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Activities and tasks | 20% | 0 | 0 | 1, 5, 8, 7, 10, 12, 9, 16, 14, 17, 18, 15 |
| Final Exam | 30% | 1.5 | 0.06 | 1, 5, 3, 10, 12, 13, 14, 17, 15 |
| Presentation, group assignment | 30% | 1.5 | 0.06 | 11, 5, 8, 3, 7, 6, 2, 10, 4, 12, 16, 19, 14, 17, 18 |
| Production assignment | 20% | 0 | 0 | 1, 5, 8, 7, 10, 12, 9, 14, 17, 15 |
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- Enllaços web:
http://hanouk.wordpress.com/2009/03/22/propiedadintelectual-history/
http://hanouk.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/recerca.pdf
http://jarpo.wikispaces.com/1.+Hist%C3%B2ria+de+la+Propietat+Intel%C2%B7lectual