Curricular Unit: Piano Chamber Music IV
Code: LPI032
ECTS:6
Cientific area: Performance Practices
Learning outcomes
– Grasp firmly the fundamental principles of group work;
– Incorporate the values of respect, comprehensiveness and good sense among the group;
– Value the partner’s difference of opinion and promote a positive and healthy spirit among the diverse opinions;
– Learn how to listen in group and develop rehearsal’s strategies in order to acknowledge the individual parts (musical score) of each member: how to integrate the own part on the overall parts of the group, so it will be possible to acknowledge the structural and musical function ofit;
– Improvement on a mutual and coherent musical idea within the group;
– Develop crucial characteristics in the group in terms of leadership, motivation and common will;
– Stimulate the group to develop an effective, organized and detailed work (reading the musical score in rehearsal);
– Boost the knowledge for the vast repertoire of a given composer (and critical meaning towards recordings) whose work has been studied.
Syllabus
– From the musical works from the Baroque era until nowadays:
– Contextualize the historical age of composers;
– Acknowledge of the musical aesthetics (which the musical work was composed);
– Strategies of rehearsing on group;
– Work group methodologies within a chamber music formation;
Listening evaluation of acoustic balance in different chamber formations with piano;
– Assimilation of sound principles on diverse instruments which form a given chamber group (type of articulation, tuning, entonation, body sound, vibrato, etc.);
– Apprehension of the physical gesture of breathing (in group);
– Develop the knowledge of the score’s harmonic reading.
Teaching methodologies
All the aspects described on the syllabus is placed on the methodology field itself for its integration on the apprenticeship, methodological, therefore, pedagogic and educational is essential for the reading, preparation, rehearsal /lesson and performance of the musical works under study and practice.
Class with chamber groups (small /medium group).
Bibliography
Baron, John Herschel (1998). Intimate Music: A History of the Idea of Chamber Music. Pendragon Press
Davidson, J. W. and King, E. C. (2004) ‘Strategies for ensemble practice’, in A. Williamon (ed.) Musical excellence: Strategies and techniques to enhance performance. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Davies, Elisabeth A. (1997). Music Library: Essential Scores and Sound Recordings (third ed.), American Library Association
McCalla, James (2003). Twentieth Century Chamber Music. Routledge, New York
Stowell, Robert, editor (2003). The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet. Cambridge University Press
Tranchefort, François-René (1989). Guide de la Musique de Chambre, Fayard.
Teaching Staff
Paul Wakabayashi (regent)
Alexei Eremine