Music Analysis Seminar - 1st semester
Code
73202108
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Ciências Musicais
Credits
5
Teacher in charge
Isabel Pires
Weekly hours
1
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) To develop technical and conceptual skills in Musical Analysis field applicable to different periods of Music History;
b) To know the main aesthetic currents of music-theoretical thought in the period studied as well as representative compositional techniques and composers;
c) To develop skills on Musical Analysis adapted practice, adapted to the paradigms from the studied period, as well as, to develop capabilities of auditory analysis of works;
d) To contextualize in a historical, sociological and aesthetical point of view, the musical phenomena through a deep study of specific composers and representative works of the studied period respective compositional practices.
Prerequisites
N/A
Subject matter
1. Detailed approach will be made to relevant music works from at least three Music History different periods with particular attention to transitional periods.
2. The detailed analytical study, through practice, of the techniques and aesthetics of a selected number of musical works representative of the historical periods to be studied during the semester: transition from the Classic to the Romantic era; tonality dissolution at the beginning of the 20th century, with special attention to impressionism and expressionism in Europe; aesthetic and technical revolution after the 2nd World War. Work by composers as Beethoven, Schubert, Berg, Schoenberg, Debussy, Messiaen and Ligeti, among others, will be studied.
3. New musical analysis paradigms emerged in recent years, adapted in a transversal way to different historical periods, will be presented.
Bibliography
Tymoczko, D. (2011) A Geometry of Music: Harmony and Counterpoint in the Extended Common Practice. Oxford. Oxford University Press.
Agmon, E. (2013) The Languages of Western Tonality. NY: Springer.
(colectivo) (2001), Analyse et Création Musicales, LHarmattan.
SUSANNI, Paolo; ANTOKOLETZ, Elliot (2012) Music and Twentieth-Century Tonality, NY: Routlege.
KOSTKA, Stefan. (2005) Materials and Techniques of Twentieth-Century Music, 3rd ed., Upper Saddle River, NJ, Prentice Hall
GRIFFITHS, Paul. (2011) Modern Music and After, N.Y., Oxford University Press; 3 edition.
Damschroder, D. (2008) Thinking About Harmony: Historical Perspectives on Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
(Bibliografia adicional será proposta ao longo do semestre; Additional bibliography will be proposed during the semester).
Teaching method
Theoretical and practical lessons with the regular realization of practical exercises that should be accomplished outside the classroom.
Evaluation method
Active participation in thematic discussions developed during the courses and regular and successful accomplishment of exercises (40%). Accomplishment of a music analysis works (60%).
Because of the practical character of this course is mandatory the presence of the student in 75% of the classes.