Checking date: 28/04/2023


Course: 2023/2024

History of Music
(13836)
Bachelor in Humanities (Plan: 407 - Estudio: 213)


Coordinating teacher: HERNANDEZ MATEO, FRANCISCO DANIEL

Department assigned to the subject: Humanities: History, Geography and Art Department

Type: Electives
ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

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Objectives
This subject focuses on the basic principles of music as an artistic language and the historical evolution of music styles. Therefore, an holistic vision of musical phenomenon is proposed, including non-western and oral tradition musical cultures. After passing this course, the student should be able to recognize and describe the most important styles and forms of western music, as well as the codes and social functions of oral tradition music from an ethnomusicological point of view. He will be able to understand musical styles and the work of western composers in relation with the History of Art and to distinguish, aurally, the main parameters of a musical piece.
Skills and learning outcomes
Description of contents: programme
1. The history of music history 2. How to listen to music 3. Music in ancient times 4. Homer, the myths of Orpheus and Dionysus, the Pythagoreans and the music of the spheres 5. Plato, Aristotle and the crisis of Pythagoreanism 6. Gregorian chant 7. The Notre Dame school and the origin of polyphony 8. The songs of Alfonso X "El Sabio" and the medieval secular song 9.Ars Nova 10. Music in the Renaissance 11. Music and words: from the Renaissance to the Baroque 12. The baroque and the birth of opera 13. Music in the baroque 14. From baroque rationalism to the aesthetics of sentiment 15. Music in classicism 16. The Enlightenment and the Encyclopedists 17. Romanticism, the ¿vormärz¿ generation and the piano poets 18. Post-romanticism, modernity and national schools 19. The "New Music" and the avant-gardes of the 20th century 20. Sociology of music in the s. XX
Learning activities and methodology
Training activities, methodology to be used and tutorial system ¿ Inductive and constructive work methodologies will be used, in a combination of both theoretical and practical classes. ¿ There will be master classes by the teacher and commented auditions. ¿ Each student will have to carry out a research project that they will have to present orally in class. ¿ Different text comments will be made in writing. ¿ There will be a visit to the Cathedral of Getafe to see its organ, led by the head organist of this institution. ¿ We will receive the visit of various guests, specialists in different areas of knowledge, in presentation format. ¿ There will be a system of tutorials, which may be face-to-face or online, at the established times.
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination 50
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 50
Calendar of Continuous assessment
Basic Bibliography
  • Paul Griffiths. A Concise History of Western Music. Cambridge University Press. 2009
  • J. Peter Burkholder, Donald Jay Grout, Claude V. Palisca. A History of Western Music . W. W. Norton & Company. 2009
  • Jan Swafford . The Vintage Guide to Classical Music. Vintage. 1992

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.