2023
Contemporary Performance Practice I
Name: Contemporary Performance Practice I
Code: MUS01927L
3 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours
Scientific Area:
Music
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English
Regime de Frequência: Presencial
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
- To promote theoretical and practical knowledge of the main esthetical musical trends developped since 1945, through the study of paradigmatic works and of specific aspects of various compositional systems used in the defined time frame.
- To develop specific technical, expressive and analytical competences in relation to the studied repertoire, such as:
- Identifying technical difficulties and particularities of instrumental performance
- Acquiring competences for the performance of complex rhythmic and melodic structures, as well as for a correct approach of timbre in the studied repertoire.
- Recognizing and mastering innovations concerning new notational strategies
- To stimulate an autonomous performative approach of the given repertoire
- To foster knowledge of specific forms of musical notation
- To study the main characteristics and singularities of electroacoustic music, including the interaction with musical structures on electronic supports.
- To develop specific technical, expressive and analytical competences in relation to the studied repertoire, such as:
- Identifying technical difficulties and particularities of instrumental performance
- Acquiring competences for the performance of complex rhythmic and melodic structures, as well as for a correct approach of timbre in the studied repertoire.
- Recognizing and mastering innovations concerning new notational strategies
- To stimulate an autonomous performative approach of the given repertoire
- To foster knowledge of specific forms of musical notation
- To study the main characteristics and singularities of electroacoustic music, including the interaction with musical structures on electronic supports.
Contents
This curricular unit includes a theoretical and a practical component. The first focuses on the following topics:
- Integral Serialism: Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen and others. The Darmstadt summer courses.
- Aleatoric music: John Cage and his influence in postwar musical scene.
- From pointillism to structural composition; textural music: Gyorgy Ligeti, Krystof Penderecki and Iannis Xenakis
- Parody and collage: Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Luciano Berio, Peter Maxwell Davies, Hans Werner Henze and others.
- Minimalism and spectralism: Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Phillip Glass, Morton Feldman.
- Neotonality: David del Tredici, Wolfgang Rihm, Robin Holloway, John Adams.
- Microtonality: Alois Hába, Harry Partch, Ben Johnston.
The practical component focuses on works from the international repertoire of the study period, for solo instruments or small chamber ensembles, which are worked upon from an esthetical, technical and
interpretative standpoint.
- Integral Serialism: Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen and others. The Darmstadt summer courses.
- Aleatoric music: John Cage and his influence in postwar musical scene.
- From pointillism to structural composition; textural music: Gyorgy Ligeti, Krystof Penderecki and Iannis Xenakis
- Parody and collage: Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Luciano Berio, Peter Maxwell Davies, Hans Werner Henze and others.
- Minimalism and spectralism: Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Phillip Glass, Morton Feldman.
- Neotonality: David del Tredici, Wolfgang Rihm, Robin Holloway, John Adams.
- Microtonality: Alois Hába, Harry Partch, Ben Johnston.
The practical component focuses on works from the international repertoire of the study period, for solo instruments or small chamber ensembles, which are worked upon from an esthetical, technical and
interpretative standpoint.
Teaching Methods
Definition of the general program and specific musical pieces to be worked on during the semester, according to the student?s profile; this definition is the teacher's responsibility, bearing in mind motivational issues specific to each student.
Group classes based on an interactive teaching methodology, including exposition by the teacher (in the theoretical component) and performance by the students (in the practical component), commentaries, exemplification, suggestions, feedback, reinforcement, practices of formative evaluation and self-evaluation, detailed indications concerning the work to be done in autonomy until the next lesson and respective planning.
Evaluation methodology:
- definition and pondering of continuous evaluation parameters concerning assiduity, punctuality and classroom participation: 10%
- Practical test (in public situation): 60%
- Theoretical test: 30%
Group classes based on an interactive teaching methodology, including exposition by the teacher (in the theoretical component) and performance by the students (in the practical component), commentaries, exemplification, suggestions, feedback, reinforcement, practices of formative evaluation and self-evaluation, detailed indications concerning the work to be done in autonomy until the next lesson and respective planning.
Evaluation methodology:
- definition and pondering of continuous evaluation parameters concerning assiduity, punctuality and classroom participation: 10%
- Practical test (in public situation): 60%
- Theoretical test: 30%
Teaching Staff
- Silvio Ferraz Mello Filho [responsible]
