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Extracurriculum activities |
Any musician who is studying anywhere but in EMU and wishes to go on with or perfect his/her studies
will be able to choose among the following seminars:
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This course is aimed not only at music, art and journalism students but also at the community in general.
The current music production requires of critics who can do more than just comment on a recital, concert or disc.
In order to reflect and give an opinion about an artistic field, a critic must work based upon a solid knowledge of the history of the main popular styles of the 20th century.
Duration: one semester
Credits: attendance certificates
Teacher: Sergio Pujol
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Aimed at musicians, technicians and producers in general who wish to learn about discographic production.
Topics:
- The function of the producer/ The psychology of recording
- Playback/Initial interview (Rehearsals/Demos/MIDI/Recording)
- Planning (Microphones/Drums/Bass/Guitars/Keyboards/Voices/Brass section)
- Mix (Level/Pan)
- Effects (Reverb/Modulation/Chorus/Flanger/Phaser/Compression/Equalization)
- Mastering
- Recording analysis (The sound in Blue Note/The sound in Motown/George Martin and The Beatles/Don Was/Phil Ramone/Quincy Jones/Arif Mardin/Flood/Mitchell Froom/Thomas Dolby/Prince/Bob Clearmountain and others)
Duration: one semester
Credits: attendance certificates
Teacher: Julio Kladniev
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Topics:
- Motif development
- Melodic arrangement
- Use of stress
- Two parts soli
- Background
- Arrangements planning
- Four, five and six parts arrangements
- Introduction to Big Band arrangements
- Concept of reharmonization
- Analysis of authors
Duration: two semesters
Credits: attendance certificates
Teacher: Juan ‘Pollo’ Raffo
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Topics:
- The interrelation between arrangements and composition
- Analysis and sensing of classical melodic outlines
- The relation Melody - Harmony and its importance
- Motif development and its importance within the composition progress
- Orchestration and arrangements. Their importance in connection with form
- Extended composition. Its importance in connection with form
Duration: two semesters
Handing in: a final project each semester
Credits: attendance certificates
Teacher: Juan Raffo
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Topics:
- Brief history of the evolution of the music of movies
- Equipment: description of the necessary set up
- Psychology
- Reading of characters
- Drama: sustenance and detonation of composition
- Music as carrier and conductor of drama
- The five Ws: Why? Where? When? What? Who?
- Spotting
- Scenes location – practical analysis of the film
- Producer, director, musician. Who is at whose service?
- Click track (guiding pulses). Development of this technique to underline specific moments
- Bar breakdown
- Map score design
- Image and mix
- Sincro setting
- Period and style: original sources and clichés
- Revision/Recapitulation/Conclusion
Duration: one semester
Credits: attendance certificates
Teacher: Hugo Potenza
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The search of the artistic expression is the art of creating a break between what can be foreseen and the surprise i.e. the generation in singers of those elements which can be incorporated from their own performance in order to plan the creative act.
Topics:
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The song as text
- Investigation of its meaning
- Stress
- Sense
- Context location
- Identification from the character (who is telling to whom)
- Subtext
2.- The character
- Investigation work (animals, drawings, pictures, etc)
- Nucleus
- Emotional memory (Memoria emotiva)
3-Generalities
- Sense and perception works
- Grey
- Singing and Dancing
Duration: one semester
Credits: attendance certificates
Teacher: Deborah Brandwajnman
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Topics:
Melody and percussion a capella
Melody with percussion and harmony
Tools
Diatonic, triatonic and conventional melodies
Percussion rhythm
Harmonic rhythm – accompaniment
Styles
Zamba-Chacarera-Gato-Vidala-Tonada
Baguala-Tonada Cuyana-Carnavalito-Huayno
Valcesito-Cuenca norteña- Melody
Analysis, revision and conclusion
Duration: one semester
Credits: attendance certificates
Teacher: Roy Elder
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The aim of this seminar is to instruct those musicians who love and have studied tango approaching and showing the elements that constitute an arrangement, an instrumentation or an accompaniment in order to know clearly how to use them properly.
The information will be handled in an analytical way so as to gradually make it firm and clear. This information will contain the basic characteristics, parameters and whys i.e. the code and yeites of tango.
It is vital for that who is interested in this kind of music to know exactly the bases of the style that defines it, how it has grown, how it works and in what way these bases can serve it better. Thus, the musician will be well instructed and with a complete control of his knowledge in order to use those things which will let him express himself creatively respecting likewise a style which, as any other, has its own codes that define and identify it.
Topics:
- The first stage
- La Habanera
- Background
- The 2/4, 4/8, 4/4
- Alternation between ´´La Habanera´´and ´´the four´´
- The syncope – The tempo
- La Guardia Vieja
- The forties
- Intensity and expresion
- Interior vs ornamentation
- Kinds of tango
- Melody – Phrasing and variation
- Analysis revision and conclusion
Duration: one semester
Credits: attendance certificates
Teacher: Hugo Potenza
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