Music Workshop

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Combination of theoretical presentation by the teacher with numerous practical exercises. Debate in classroom over the different music examples presented both by the teacher and the students.

Learning Outcomes

The graduation Arts Workshops, pertaining to Cinema, Theatre and Music, are intended both for the artistic creation experience as to the development of artistic mediation tools.

It is understood as strikingly important to implement the student aural skills in order to, without the written score, be able to critically analyze the music work.

By the end of the semester, the student should be able to:

- critically listen, through each music parameter (rhythm, timbres, texture, form), a music piece, both from the art music or popular music;

- correlate the musical phenomena with the different chronological and aesthetical periods.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

The course aims to improve the student’s aural skills. Calling upon all music genres (with a particular focus on art music nevertheless), the course, through critical listening, takes into consideration the timbre, the texture, the rhythm and form of the musical work. The student's timbre and melodic memory as his capacity to follow and apprehend a musical discourse should improve.
By the end of the semester, the student should be able to arguably identify, through its musical characteristics, the work's composition period and style. An important tool for future experience as music critic, artistic producer or director.

Head Lecturer(s)

José António Oliveira Martins

Assessment Methods

Assessement
The assessment has several parameters: a) duas frequências | two midterm exams; b)| pratical exercices; c) active participation in class.: 100.0%

Bibliography

• DUFOURCET, Marie-Bernadette, HAKIM, Naji, Guide pratique d’analyse musicale, 6e édition, Éditions Combre, Paris, 2001

• FRIEDMANN, Michael L., Ear Training for Twentieth-Century Music, Yale University Press, 1990

• GUILLARD, Georges, Manuel pratique d’analyse auditive, Ed. Musicales Transatlantiques, 1996

• KARPINSKI, Gary S., Aural Skills Acquisition : The Development of Listening, Reading, and Performing Skills in College-Level Musicians, Oxford University Press, 2000

• PROSSER, Steve, Essential Ear Training for the Contemporary Musician. Berklee Press, 2000