Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2500240 Musicology | OB | 3 | 1 |
A good level of musical language
The student will learn the basis theoretical and practice, and will transcribe and perform the Medieval Music written in the main systems of notation
Development of the syllabus through practical classes based on the musical fragments, after explaining the theoretical-practical principles on which they are based.
Resolution, with the active participation of the student, of how many transcription exercises are commissioned.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Face-to-face lessons, theoric and practice | 45 | 1.8 | 1, 2, 5, 11, 3, 7, 6, 13, 10 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Reading of specific bibliography (books and articles) | 7 | 0.28 | 12, 14, 7, 8, 4, 9, 15 |
Study of the course | 30 | 1.2 | 1, 2, 12, 5, 11, 3, 14, 7, 6, 8, 4, 9, 15, 13, 10 |
Transcription excercices | 62 | 2.48 | 12, 11, 3, 14, 6, 4, 15, 13, 10 |
Evaluation
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.
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.
Final exam of the subject: December 16, 2020. 11:30-13:00 hours
Review final exams: January 13, 2021
Re-evaluation
The re-evaluation exam of the subject will consist of the transcription of musical fragments, with the same learning results of the final exam which also includes parts of the continuous evaluation process. A student will be “not evaluable” if he has not attended any of the ordinary partial exams of the subject.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Final exam | 40% | 2 | 0.08 | 1, 2, 12, 5, 11, 3, 14, 7, 6, 8, 4, 9, 15, 13, 10 |
Test 1 | 30% | 2 | 0.08 | 12, 11, 14, 6, 8, 9, 13, 10 |
Test 2 | 30% | 2 | 0.08 | 12, 11, 14, 6, 8, 9, 13, 10 |
Apel, W., The Notation of Polyphonic Music 900-1600 (Cambridge, 1953/5ª edic., etc.)
Hiley D. - Szendrei J., Notation, § III.1, Plainchant, in Groveonline
Colette M. N. - Popin M.– Vendrix PH., Histoire de la notation du Moyen Âge à la Renaissance, Paris, Minerve, 2003
Kelly TH. F., Capturing Music. The Story of Notation, New York, W.W. Norton, 2014
Schimd M.E., La notazione musicale. Scrittura e composizione tra il 900 e il 1900, a cura di A. Cecchi, Roma, Astrolabio, 2017
Paléographie musicale: les principaux manuscrits de chant grégorien, ambrosien, mozarabe, gallican, Solesmes, 1889-.
Les Clausulae a deux voix du Manuscrit de Florence, Biblioteca Mediceo-Laurenziana, Pluteus 29.1, pub. par R. A. Baltzer, Paris, L’Oiseau-Lyre, 1995 (“Le Magnus Liber Organi de Notre-Dame de Paris”, 5).
The music treatise of Anonymous IV. A new translation, J. Yudkin ed. (MSD 41, 1985)
Franconis de Colonia, Ars cantus mensurabilis, G. Reaney & A. Gilles eds. (CSM 18, 1974)
Philippi de Vitriaco, Ars nova, G. Reaney, A. Gilles & J. Maillard eds. (CSM 8, 1964)
Fuller, S., “A Phantom Treatise of the Fourteenth Century? The Ars nova”, The Journal of Musicology IV/1 (1985/6), pp. 23-50
Tractatus figurarum, Ph. E. Schreur ed. (Lincoln-London, 1989)