Portuguese Literature and Music

Code:

LEI013

Acronym:

LPM

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Portuguese Literature

Instance: 2024/2025 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Portuguese and Romance Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor in Literature and Interart Studies

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LEI	39	Study plan	2	-	6	41	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Since, in general, students arrive at the University without knowing the intrinsic musicality of the literary discourse and the means that the writer uses to graduate its intensity, the syllabus contains an initiation part that will allow them to recognize this sensitive aspect of language. With regard to the history of this relationship in the Portuguese literary system, they will be offered a diachronic perspective that will accentuate the most notable cases. In a particular and concrete plan, four exemplary cases will be studied in which the various types of relationship between the two arts manifest themselves in an evident and diversified way. The syllabus focuses mainly on lyric poetry because it reflects more deeply and sensibly the musical vibration of language.

Learning outcomes and competences

Students will be able to develop the study of the internal and external relationships between literature and music.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. Introduction to literary musicality
1.1. The means of mimesis: rhythm, language and melos
1.2. Accent rhythm and prosodic-semantic rhythm
1.3. Verbal utterance and melopeia
1.4. Prose and verse, meter and free verse
1.5. Types of external relations between literature and music
2. Portuguese literature and music
3. Diachronic perspective of a constant relationship
4. Two case studies in the Middle Ages
4.1. Martin Codax and D. Dinis: musical notation of poetry
4.2. The troubadour as a poet, composer and interpreter
4.3. Analysis and hearing of modern reconstitutions
5. Two case studies in the Contemporary Age
5.1. The verbal instrumentation of Camilo Pessanha
5.1.1. Reading and analysis of Clepsidra's texts (1920)
5.2. Jorge de Sena's “musical metamorphoses”
5.2.1. Art of Music (1968): dialogue between the two arts
5.2.2. Evocation, meditation, transposition: readings and analyzes

Mandatory literature

Aristóteles; Poética. ISBN: 972-27-0259-9
Jean-Louis Backès; Musique et littérature. ISBN: 2-13-046018-6
João de Freitas Branco; A^música na obra de Camões
João de Freitas Branco; História da música portuguesa (4th ed., 2005.)
Amorim de Carvalho; Tratado de versificação portuguesa. ISBN: 972-40-0623-9
Luís Adriano Carlos; Fenomenologia do discurso poético. ISBN: 972-610-236-7 (Chap. "Metamorfoses do Signo II")
Luís F. Lindley Cintra; O^ritmo na poesia de António Nobre. ISBN: 972-27-1122-9
Daghlian, Carlos (org.); Poesia e Música, São Paulo: Perspectiva, 1985
Dessons, Gérard e Henri Meschonnic; Traité du Rythme: Des Vers et des Proses, Natan/VUEF, 2003
Dionísio de Halicarnasso; La Composition Stylistique, Paris: Les Belles Lettres (bilingue), 2003
Fagundes, Francisco Cota; A Poet's Way with Music, Providence: Gávea-Brown, 1988
Manuel Pedro Ferreira; Cantus coronatus. ISBN: 3-937734-09-0
Manuel Pedro Ferreira; O som de Matin Codax
Fernando Guimarães; Poética do simbolismo em Portugal
Locatelli, Aude; Littérature et Musique au XXe Siècle, Paris: PUF, 2001
Óscar Lopes; Uma^espécie de música. ISBN: 972-610-483-1
Henri Meschonnic; Critique du rythme. ISBN: 2-86432-016-9
Nery, Rui Vieira; Para uma história do Fado, Corda Seca & Público, 2017
Aires Manuel Rodeia dos Reis Pereira; A^Mousiké. ISBN: 972-31-0904-2
Aristides Quintiliano; La^musique. ISBN: 978-2-870-19-276-4
Nicolas Ruwet; Langage, musique, poésie
Giuseppe Tavani; Poesia e ritmo

Comments from the literature

During classes, specific bibliography will be indicated whenever necessary.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical-practical classes, with presentation of programmatic matter by the teacher and analysis of texts related to the syllabus.

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	100,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	120,00
Frequência das aulas	42,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Mandatory attendance in at least 75% of scheduled classes.

Calculation formula of final grade

Final exam: 100%.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

"Students holding special status, namely those covered by the status of Association Leader, Student-Athlete, Student-Firefighter, Military Student, Student Athlete of the National Team, High Performance Sports Practitioners or Student Worker" (Article 14, point 1 of the Assessment Regulations), regarding the participation component, as they cannot guarantee in-person participation, they must, however, ensure their regular participation in the tasks proposed by the teacher.

Classification improvement

1. Accordance with Assessment Regulations in force.
2. The component to be considered for grade improvement must be the test with the lowest mark.