Music Workshop

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Combination of theoretical presentation with numerous practical exercises. Analysis in classroom about the different music examples presented both by the teacher and the students. Weekly individual aural exercices.

Learning Outcomes

Improve the student’s aural skills.

Work solely through critical listening of several music genres.

This course aims to enhance a comprehensive understanding of the music work.

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.

It is intended that, at the end of the course, the student will be able to more fully identify the musical work heard, its main characteristics and correlate it with its historical and/or stylistic context.

Head Lecturer(s)

Leonor Duarte Patacas de Areia Losa

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Assessment is based on: a) active participation in debates and presentation of weekly tasks; b) two written tests in classroom: 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

• HORVIT, M., KOOZIN, T., NELSON, R., Music for Ear Training, Shirmer, 2012

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