Main trends in the History of Music
Code
711021053
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Ciências Musicais
Credits
6
Teacher in charge
David Cranmer
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
The student should:
a) Gain an overview of the principal issues, stylistic tendencies, personalities, institutions and musical genres of the History of Music;
b) Be aware of the principal musical repertoires of the various periods of the History of Music;
c) Be able to distinguish the different periods in stylistic terms through listening;
d) Learn to contextualise the main musical phenomena of the different periods studied, from a historical, sociological and ideological perspective.
Prerequisites
None
Subject matter
1) Questions of periodisation in the History of Western Music from the Middle Ages to the Present, including the stylistic features that distinguish them.
2) Specific aspects of culture and musical life in the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods and the 20th and 21st centuries.
3) Contextualisation of the main musical phenomena of the different periods studied, from a historical, sociological and ideological perspective.
Bibliography
Blanning, T. (2009). The Triumph of Music: composers, musicians and their audiences, 1700 to the present. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
Griffiths, P. (2007). História concisa da música ocidental. Lisboa: Editorial Bizâncio.
Grout, J. & Palisca, C. V. (1994). História da Música Ocidental. Lisboa: Gradiva.
Michels, U. (2003/2007). Atlas de Música, 2 vols. Lisboa: Gradiva.
Teaching method
Theoretical and practical subject (60%/40%). The syllabus is made up essentially of three cycles of lessons that mutually support and reinforce each other: 1. The repertoires; 2. The periods; 3. People and places. Lessons are expositive, in which listening to musical examples forms a significant and integral element and in which discussion with the students is encouraged. In the 2nd cycle the lessons are given, by invitation, by the teacher responsible for the History of Music subject for the period in question - one lesson (2 hours) per teacher.
Evaluation method
Continuous assessment, made up of three elements: a written test (50%); writing an assignment (30%); 2 reflective reports and participation in class (20%).