2023

Portuguese Music History I

Name: Portuguese Music History I
Code: MUS01010L
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area: Musicology

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English
Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Presentation

The subject promotes a comprehensive survey of the main fields of Portuguese Music History: from the origins to the end of the XVIIth century.

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

Contextualized survey of the main fields of Portuguese Music History related to the chronological period given in the unit's content. Development of knowledge capacities of structuring and synthesis of the unit's content and the associated written and oral expression training.

Contents

- Historiography and periodization of Portuguese Music History.
- Liturgical Medieval repertoires and its structuring.
- Galician-portuguese lyrics and medieval monodic secular repertoire.
- From late Fourteenth and Fifteenth centuries «Canção polifónica» to Seventeenth Century sacred «Vilancico».
- Keyboard Music and Instrumenatl repertoires: from the «Arte de tanger» of Gonçalo de Baena (1540) to the «Livro de obras de órgão» of the Bouro Monastery (sécs. XVII-XVIII).
- Sacred polyphony: from late Fifteenth Century to early Eighteenth Century.

Teaching Methods

Theoretical exposition of the main topics of the curricular unit, case studies, scientific discussions of the proposed student´s works with tutorial accompaniment in what concerns the student´s learning process and the respective oral and written skills. Use of recorded musical examples, both audio and audio/video.
Evaluation:
- Test including both, short answer and developed answer questions.
- Evaluation of the investigation presented by the student in the room:
- Wording of the work: clear writing, avoiding redundancies, repetition and colloquial terms. Use of technical terms and their explanation.
- Depth and quality of the investigation.
- Ways of presentation: clear and interesting
- Organization of the work: in coherence with the principals of the discussion about investigative methodology.

Teaching Staff