Music History 1950 to the present
Code
711021027
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Ciências Musicais
Credits
6
Teacher in charge
Paula Gomes Ribeiro
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
By the end of this course students should/will be able to demonstrate:
a) To have acquired methodological and conceptual skills in Music History; to know the specific literature in the history and culture of music since World War II;
b) To know the main problems, stylistic trends, actors, institutions, practices, theoretical perspectives, and musical genres related to the period;
c) To be able to discuss these topics, concepts, methods, etc., in the context of present paradigms of the social and human sciences;
d) To have a good knowledge of the musical, musical-theatre and multimedia repertoire, and to be able to integrate it in a context of artistic and intellectual production, and in its socio-cultural frameworks;
e) To master the current methodologies of presentation and communication of research results.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
1.The international avantgarde in the aftermath of the war: Nono, Boulez, Stockhausen and Peixinho in Darmstadt; serialisms in Europe and USA.
2.Indeterminism and openness: Cage, Feldman, Brown, Cunningham and the NY School; improvisation and transgression: happenings, assemblages, Fluxus-Kaprow, Maciunas and Beuys.
3.Music theatre and multimedia, from Kagel and Capdeville to Aperghis and today.
4.The expansion of sound and image technologies for the exploration of sonic and audiovisual space: Stockhausen, Berio, Maderna, Schaeffer, Xenakis; spectralism and IRCAM.
5.Music as cultural and political revolution in the 60 and 70s, crossing rock, pop art, minimalism, jazz, Woodstock, the american dream, Mai 68 and April 25.
6.Modern or postmodern? Rethinking the new and history after the death of the author. Stylistic and intellectual paths in the expansion of globalization.
7.Transformation of the paradigms of music listening and production from the advent of WWW to the present.
Bibliography
Bennet, A. (2001). Cultures of popular music. Buckingham: Open University Press.
Bosseur, J. Y. (1990). Revoluções Musicais. Lisboa: Caminho da Música.
Carvalho, M. V. (2007). A tragédia da escuta Luigi Nono e a música do século XX´. Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda.
Castelo-Branco, S. (ed.) (2010), Enciclopédia da Música em Portugal no Século XX, 4 vols. Lisboa: Círculo de Leitores
Cook, N. & Pople, A. (2004). The Cambridge history of 20th-century music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Griffits, P. (2010). Modern music and after. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Nattiez, J.-J. (ed.) (2003). Musiques du XXe siècle (Musiques. Une encyclopédie pour le XXIe siècle I). Arles/Paris: Actes Sud/Cité de la musique.
Taruskin, R. (2010). Oxford History of Western Music, Vol. 5: Music in the Late Twentieth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Teaching method
Lessons are both theoretical (60%) and practical (40%). The teaching-learning processes use multimedia, and are based in the active learning model. They include, among other methods, exposition and demonstration, discussion, collaborative learning, literature review, problem solving, case learning, musical and audiovisual examples, group and individual presentations, essay writing.
Evaluation method
Evaluation: a 6.000 words essay, and its exposition and discussion in class (60%); two reviews and their discussion in class (20% each). Critical thinking and class participation will be valued.