Without scores

Towards the design of musicographic tools to approach the media musical discourse in humanistic university education

Abstract

It is impossible to think about humanistic education at university level without addressing the aesthetic dimension. Through it, the person can appreciate its role in the natural and cultural space that he has lived and enriches his interiority so that he becomes capable of posing a position before the great existential challenges that transcend the mere individuality. Within the aesthetic dimension, the experience of music, for its ubiquity in Western culture from the cultural industries, for its character of discourse and cultural product located socially, has the potential to become a path of self-knowledge, construction and questioning of the own sense of existence and the relations of meaning present in the environment. The present work aims to support the development of an educational tool for the approach and understanding of music as a cultural discourse in the context of comprehensive humanistic education programs at the university level. Starting from Jos Wuytack’s musicographic proposals, the aim is to appeal to digital media that are easy to access and without the need for the development of sheet reading skills, so that the groups of subjects related to musical appreciation and aesthetics approach the musical discourse from the structural analysis of pieces, based on the listening levels of Aaron Copland, and understand the musical production as a communicative act.