Music and Literature

Code:

PEUS141

Acronym:

ML

Instance: 2024/2025 - 2S (edição n.º 1)

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Portuguese and Romance 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	13	Study Plan	1	-		20	20

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

The Course provides a systematic view of the links between Music and Literature in both historical and theoretical perspectives. Inquiring these two arts, their specificities and their mutual confluences, contributes to the enrichment of society and the culture of all people who wish a short term Course on the topic.

Learning outcomes and competences

At the end of the course unit, the learner is expected to be able to:
a) Understand the transversal concepts of the arts of music and literature;
b) Know the historical tradition of the relationship between music and literature;
c) Relate empirically the contacts and intersemiotic transfers of the two arts between them.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. Music and Literature: Transversal Concepts
  1.1. Arts of time and arts of space
  1.2. Mimesis, expression and narrativity
  1.3. Semiotics of music and literature
  1.4. Musical forms and literary genres

2. Historical Notions of the Interartistic Relationship
  2.1. The primeval concept of poetry as mousiké
  2.2. Troubadour poetry: from creation to interpretation
  2.3. Operatic innovation: libretto, music and staging
  2.4. Singer-songwriters and lyric composition

3. Intersemiotic Analyzes
  3.1. “Dal mio Permesso” by Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi
  3.2. “Ai Flores do Verde Pino” by King Denis I of Portugal
  3.3. “Fonógrafo” and “Chorai arcadas” by Camilo Pessanha
  3.4. “Adeus” and “Mar, Mar e Mar” by Eugénio de Andrade
  3.5. Arte de Música by Jorge de Sena

Mandatory literature

BACKÈS, J.-L.; Musique et Littérature, Paris: PUF, 1994
CARLOS, L. A. ; Fenomenologia do Discurso Poético: Ensaio sobre Jorge de Sena, Porto: Campo das Letras, 1999
DONALD J. G., e PALISCA, C. V. ; História da Música Ocidental, Lisboa: Gradiva, 1994
FERREIRA, M. P. ; O Som de Martin Codax, Lisboa: IN-CM, 1986
FERREIRA, M. P. ; Cantus Coronatus : 7 Cantigas d’El-Rei Dom Dinis, Kassel: Reichenberger, 2005
HAMBURGER, K. ; Logique des Genres Littéraires, Paris: Seuil, 1977
HEGEL, G. W. F. ; Estética, Lisboa: Guimarães Editores, 1993
HODIER, A. ; As Formas da Música, Lisboa: Edições 70, 2002
LOPES, O. ; Uma Espécie de Música: A Poesia de Eugénio de Andrade, Porto: Campo das Letras, 2002
MESCHONNIC, H. ; Critique du Rythme, Paris: Verdier, 2002
PEREIRA, Aires Manuel dos Reis ; A Mousiké: Das Origens ao Drama de Eurípides, Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2001
RUWET, N. ; Langage, Musique, Poésie, Paris: Seuil, 1972
STANGE, V. E. ; Sens et Musicalité: Les Voix Secrètes du Symbolisme, Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2014

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical and practical learning: theoretical exposition of the syllabus; audition and commentary of sound recordings; reading and analysis of literary texts; critical debate of theoretical problems.

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