Musical Language
Code: 102032Credits: 6
| Degree programme | Type | Course |
|---|---|---|
| Early Childhood Education | OP | 4 |
| Primary Education | OP | 4 |
Contact lecturer
- Name :
- Marta Dosaiguas Canal
- Email :
- marta.dosaiguas@uab.cat
Teaching staff
- Llorenç Castello Garriga
Group languages
You can consult this information at the end of the document.
Prerequisites
People who want to enroll in this subject must prove that they are studying - or have passed - the level of music studies corresponding to the first cycle of Intermediate Degree. In case of not having followed regulated musical studies, a level test will be done.
Objectives
- Develop musical sense and internal understanding of music.
- To know and master fluently the musical language at a rhythmic, melodic, harmonic and formal level.
- Acquire autonomy in harmonic accompaniment and in the creation and improvisation of music.
- Learn and practice basic sheet music editing using virtual software
Learning outcomes
- Be able to work in a team.
- Be able to reflect on and adapt didactic interventions in different educational contexts and situations.
- Acquire knowledge and skills and abilities in the expressive and perceptive dimension of voice, song, choral singing and conducting.
- Learn to develop different work strategies that balance the development of group projects and individual projects.
- Knowing how to explain the main consequences of the effect of teaching the arts on people's cultural, personal and social education.
- Understand the learning processes and methodological bases underlying the teaching and learning of music.
- Learn to establish relationships between different artistic languages taking theory and praxis of musical activity as a central focus.
- Recognising the value of musical activities related to singing, song and conducting in educating the individual, and the fundamental role that it plays in school activities.
- Be able to sing and get groups to sing, listening to others and respecting each other.
- Being able to design activities from the different content blocks of the material, in accordance with basic methodological principles.
- Knowing how to understand, analyse and compare texts belonging to different spheres of thought, culture and the arts with their possible linkages with music.
- Know and master the elements of musical language on an expression, understanding and creation level.
- Learn to develop different strategies in how to work that balance the development of group projects and individual projects.
- Knowing how to listen to and analyse a musical work on a rhythmic, melodic, harmonic and formal level.
- Being able to work together.
- Being able to sing and sing in groups, listening to others and respecting each other.
- Apply the practice of writing, composition analysis and recognition through information and communications technology.
- Learn to understand, analyze and compare texts from different domains of thought, culture and the arts with their possible links with the musical event.
- They have acquired knowledge and skills and abilities in expressive and perceptive dimension of voice, song, choral singing and musical direction.
- Propose viable projects and actions to boost social, economic and environmental benefits.
- Identify the social, economic and environmental implications of academic and professional activities within one?s own area of knowledge.
Contents
1. The own elements of the musical language
1.1. Reading
1.2. Writing
1.3. Improvising
1.4. Composing
1.5. Listening
2. Technical processes and strategies and resources for teaching and learning music
2.1. Imitation and interpretation
2.2. Musical memory
2.3. Recognition and inner hearing
2.4. The accompaniment
2.5. The creation
2.6. The analysis
3. Music Editing and Composition
3.1. Exploring Musescore Software
3.2. Creating, Writing, and Listening: Musescore Step by Step
Learning activities and methodology
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Face-to-face activities with the whole group | 45 | 1.8 | 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 15, 17, 20 |
| Autonomous activities | 75 | 3 | 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 21 |
| Supervised activities | 30 | 1.2 | 2, 3, 4, 9, 12, 16, 17, 19, 20 |
The methodology that will be carried out throughout the subject will be based on these principles:
The classes will be held at an eminently practical level.
The work of theoretical knowledge will be a consequence of daily practice.
The basic procedures on which classroom activities will be carried out will be:
DIRECTED ACTIVITIES
Listening, expression, interpretation, understanding and musical creation. Group work and individual work will alternate.
Performance of collective, small group and individual musical analysis activities.
AUTONOMOUS ACTIVITIES
The student will have files for reading musical repertoire, materials to support auditory education and analysis to carry out the activities of:
-Reading of musical works.
-Analysis of structures and specific elements of musical language.
-Resources and exercises for musical recognition.
-Practice of structural, formal and harmonic analysis in scores of works by different composers and periods.
SUPERVISED ACTIVITIES
Tutorials and other tutored activities.
Assessment
Continuous assessment activities
| Title | Weight | Hours | ECTS | Learning outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Musical reading | 40 % | 0 | 0 | 2, 4, 11, 12, 14, 16 |
| Hearing discrimination | 20 % | 0 | 0 | 6, 15, 16, 18, 19 |
| Musical interpretation | 30 % | 0 | 0 | 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 18, 20, 21 |
| Analysis of musical works | 10 % | 0 | 0 | 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19 |
*GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS ON EVALUATION
The evaluation will be based on the following aspects:
1 Continuous evaluation of classroom practice and proposed activities.
2 Individual written tests of recognition, hearing, analysis, musical creation and didactics of musical language.
3 Individual oral tests of reading, tuning, singing and musical improvisation.
In these 3 aspects, the analysis of musical works, musical understanding (form and formal structure), musical creation and improvisation, auditory discrimination (dictations of different types) and musical reading (prepared or sight reading) will be evaluated.
A student will be considered non-evaluable when he/she has not appeared for more than 25% of the evaluation tests.
These individual tests will be carried out:
*ORDINARY EVALUATION (for students on continuous assessment)
1ST SEMESTER
- During the last days of teaching in December, the 1st quarter tests will be carried out. These tests (divided into two sessions) will include the following assessment activities: auditory discrimination 10%, musical reading 20%, musical interpretation 20%.
-the overall weight of these tests is 50%.
-they will be individual tests and will confirm whether the learning worked on during the quarter has been achieved or not.
-the grade for each test will be proportional to the weight of each assessment activity.
-to pass the quarter it is essential to pass the reading and interpretation sections.
-students will receive a return of these tests within 20 working days.
2nd SEMESTER
-Upon returning from the intensive period of PRACTICUM IV, the part of musical editing and composition will be worked on; a task will be requested that, if passed, will mean 0.25 points to the overall course grade
-During the second quarter, another improvisation exercise will be worked on, different from that of the 1st Quarter, improvisation of a melody on a given chord progression; a task will be requested that, if passed, will mean 0.25 points to the overall course grade.
-The 2nd Quarter tests will be held on 06/09/2027. These tests will include the following assessment activities: Analysis of musical works 10%, Auditory discrimination 10%, Musical interpretation 10%, Musical reading 20%
-the overall weight of these tests is 50%.
-they will be individual tests and will ratify whether the learning worked on during the semester has been achieved or not.
-the grade of each of the tests will be proportional to the weight of each assessment activity.
-students will receive a return of these tests within 20 working days.
To pass the semester it is essential to pass the reading and interpretation sections.
*SINGLE ASSESSMENT
-the single assessment tests will be held on 06/09/2027. These tests will include the following assessment activities: Auditory discrimination 20% (rhythmic, harmonic, melodic, chord, interval dictations...), Interpretation 25% (improvisation), Analysis 15%, Musical reading 40% (studied reading, melodic, rhythmic or polyrhythmic repetition).
-they will be individual tests and will ratify whether the learning worked on during the course has been achieved or not
-the grade of each of the tests will be proportional to the weight of each assessment activity
-students will receive a return of these tests within 20 working days.
To pass the subject it is essential to have satisfactorily passed the oral song test and also to have passed the melodic dictation section of the auditory tests.
RECOVERY ASSESSMENT
-On 6/16/27, the recovery test will be held: The sections that can be retaken are those on reading and interpretation.
*OTHER GENERAL ASPECTS
Attention is mandatory at least 80%.
According to UAB regulations, plagiarism or copying of any work will be penalized with a 0 as the grade of this work, losing the possibility of recovering it, whether it is an individual or group work (in this case, all members of the group will have a 0). If during the completion of an individual work in class, the teacher considers that a student is trying to copy or some type of document or device not authorized by the teacher is discovered, the same will be graded with a 0, with no recovery option.
It will be specifically valued that the student is a good musical model (singing, playing instruments, dancing, conducting, listening to music), with good expressiveness and musicality, and transmitting taste and care for the musical result.
The didactic-musical profile must be supported by characteristics when carrying out classroom activities that are basic to working as a teacher:
-responsibility in planning and prior preparation of what is needed.
-communicative capacity, based on a mastery of verbal language, but also of non-verbal (body posture, facial expression, etc.) and of supports, if applicable.
-ability to manage the group, being attentive to the existing diversity and conducting the activities with assertiveness and empathy.
-attention to what happens during the activities and flexibility to adapt to them, while controlling the time available.
-reflection and critical view of the educational practice carried out.
To pass this subject, the student must show good general communicative competence, both orally and in writing, and a good command of the vehicular language or languages that appear in the teaching guide.
In all activities (individual and group) linguistic correction, writing and formal aspects of presentation will therefore be taken into account. Students must be able to express themselves fluently and correctly and must show a high degree of understanding of academic texts. An activity may be returned (not evaluated) or suspended if the teacher considers that it does not meet these requirements.
In this subject, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies is not allowed in any of its phases. Any work that includes fragments generated with AI will be considered a lack of academic honesty and may lead to a partial or total penalty in the grade of the activity, or greater sanctions in serious cases.
Bibliography
Maideu, J. (1988). Assaig. Vic: Eumo
Mestes, J., Aramon, N. (1983). Vocabulari català de música. Barcelona: Millà
Michels, U. (1985). Atlas de Música. Madrid: Alianza
Software
https://musescore.org/ca
Course groups and languages
The information provided is provisional until November 30. After this date, you will be able to consult the language of each group through this link. To access the information, you will need to enter the course CODE
| Type of teaching | Group | Language | Semester | Shift |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (TE) Theory | 1 | Catalan | annual | morning-mixed |