Art, Music and Sacred Space

Code:

PEUS124

Acronym:

AMES

Instance: 2024/2025 - 1S (of 15-10-2024 to 06-02-2025)

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Heritage Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Higher Education Studies for Older People

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
PEUS	16	Study Plan	1	-		20	20

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

- Contribute to the acquisition of tools on the program of studies based on the study of documentary, visual and audio sources, their analysis and interpretation.
- Identify the main architectural forms and spatial solutions that contributed to the history, art and culture of the West in its diachrony.
- Understand the importance of the religious image in the history and culture of the West.
- Develop skills of analysis and interpretation of sacred spaces in the West.
- Identify musical genres and languages in time and space.
- Understanding the musical work as an expression of human thought in time and space.

Learning outcomes and competences

The student must be able to identify and understand the relationship between sacred spaces and devotional practices, which include various artistic forms, such as imagery and music. It is intended to identify architectural forms and spatial solutions, iconographies, musical languages and instruments, situating them in space and time.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. Paleo-Christian and Byzantine Arts
   1.1 Religious architecture: plants, materials and constructive elements.
   1.2 Images: Paleo-Christian moral painting and Byzantine mosaic.
   1.3 The iconoclastic crisis.
2. Music and Christianity
   2.1 Plainchant  traditions: Syriac Chant; the Greco-Byzantine Chant; Ambrosian Chant; Gallican Chant; Mozarabic chant.
   2.2 Gregorian Chant.
3. The Art of the Middle Ages: from Romanesque to Gothic.
   3.1 Religious Architecture: Monastic and cathedral forms and models.
   3.2 Architectural, devotional and funerary sculpture.
   3.3 Polyphony: from the origins to the 13th century.
   3.4 Architecture, sacred space and music.
4. Renaissance Art:
   4.1 The importance of the classical model.
   4.2 Architects, works and treaties.
   4.3 Renaissance painting and sculpture: themes, forms, techniques and artists.
   4.4 Renaissance music:
      4.4.1 Geographies: Burgundy; Italy; England; Spain and Portugal.
      4.4.2 Sacred genres: the mass and the motet.
      4.4.3 Five generations of Renaissance composers.
5. Music in the Protestant Reformation and Counter-Reformation.
6. The Baroque
   6.1 Baroque Architecture: Dynamics and transformation of spaces.
   6.2 Creation of a scenic space: music, liturgy and artistic forms. Painting, sculpture, carving and goldsmith.

Mandatory literature

Atlas, Allan W. ; La Música del Renascimiento, Madrid: Akal, 2002
Atlas, Allan W. ; Antologia de la Música del Renascimiento, Madrid: Akal, 2002
Burkholder, J. Peter; Grout, Donald Jay & Palisca, Claude V. ; A History of Western Music (8ª ed) , New York: W. W. Norton, 2010
Coldstream, N; Medieval Architecture, Oxford: University Press, 2001
García García, F. ; Los monasterios medievales en sus emplazamientos: lugares de memoria de lo sagrado. Mover al santo: traslado de reliquias y renovación de escenarios de culto en monasterios hispanos (siglos XI y XII), Palencia: Fundación de Santa Maria la Real, 2016
Garin, Eugénio ; Idade Média e Renascimento, Lisboa: Estampa, 1988
Hoppin, Richard ; La Música Medieval, Madrid: Akal, 1991
Hoppin, Richard (ed.) ; Antología de La Música Medieval, Madrid: Akal, 1992
Norberg-Schulz, Christian; Existencia, espacio y arquitectura, Barcelona: Editorial Blume, 1975
Pereira, José Fernandes ; Dicionário da arte barroca em Portugal, Lisboa: Presença, 1989
Rosas, Lúcia ; Espaço religioso e transformação: a fundação de capelas na época gótica, in SARAIVA, Anísio Miguel de Sousa; MORUJÃO, Maria do Rosário Barbosa. O clero secular medieval e as suas catedrais: novas perspectivas e abordagens, Lisboa: Centro de Estudos de História Religiosa, 2014
Sadie, Stanley (Ed.) ; ) The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Londres: Mac Millan, 2001
Serrão, Vítor ; O conceito de totalidade nos espaços do barroco nacional: a obra da igreja de Nossa Senhora dos Prazeres em Beja (1672-1698), Revista da Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa, nº 21, 5ª série. Lisboa: FLUP, pp. 245-267, 1997
Taruskin, Richard ; Oxford History of Music, Cambridge: CUP, 2006
Williamson, Beth ; Sensory Experience in Medieval Devotion: Sound and Vision, Invisibility and Silence. In Speculum, The Medieval Academy of America, vol.88, nº1, Chicago: The university of Chicago Press, 2013

Teaching methods and learning activities

The exhibition of the program of studies is supported by the presentation of áudio material, the analysis of visual sources and texts of scientific dissemination in the context of the classroom (TP), raising the debate with the students.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	100,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Frequência das aulas	20,00
Total:	20,00

Eligibility for exams

75% attendance.

Calculation formula of final grade

n/a