History of Western Music IV

Code: MUS12951L

6 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours

Scientific Area: Musicology

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

4. Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Learning Goals

Contextualized survey of the main fields of Western 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.

- Transition to Classicism
1 Cultural context in Europe during the second half of the eighteenth Century: Enlightenment
2 French Revolution
3 - Pre-classical music
a) opera buffa
b) vaudeville
c) Singspiel
d) Querelle des bouffons
e) Gluck and the reform of lyrical drama
f) Germany in the age of Empfindsamkeit: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
g) Rococó and Galant Style
h) The formation of Classical Style
h.1) Instrumental forms: sonata, rondo, minuet, scherzo, theme and variations
h.2) The fortepiano
h.3) Symphony - Mannheim
h.4) The emergence of Chamber Music

4 - Classical Music:
a ) Joseph Haydn
b) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
c) Ludwig van Beethoven

6- First Romanticism
e) F. Schubert
f) Lied
g) The piano repertoire
h) Inovation and modernity in 1810s generation.

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.
- The use of artificial intelligence may be observed in activities related to research support and organization (e.g., identification of sources, structuring of bibliographies, summarization of supporting texts); as well as linguistic and stylistic support (e.g., translation of terms, grammatical correction, and improvement of the fluency of the original text). However, AI should not replace the student?s own writing and should be used solely as a support and correction tool.

Assessment

1. Continuous assessment
- 1 synthesis work with around 3000 words, which will be submitted for oral presentation
oral (50%).
- 1 final written test, with a maximum duration of 2 hours (50%).

2. Assessment by final exam:
- 1 written test, with a maximum duration of 2 hours. (100%)