Would you like to stand out in the musical field for the originality and quality of your arrangements? Enroll in this postgraduate diploma and you will be able to implement in your practice the most innovative strategies to achieve it”

In the digital audiovisual field, Covers, namely, original songs covered by another musician, are in vogue. Thirty Seconds To Mars, Miley Cyrus, Ed Sheeran, Maroon 5, Bob Dylan, Adele, Leona Lewis or David Bowie are just some of the singers and groups that have adapted songs from other genres to their own, bringing the characteristics of each one to each song. Music and its flexible and versatile nature allows specialists in this field to make a multitude of arrangements in the structure and sound composition of projects, resulting in innovative and novel musical repertoires, but based on the classics or songs that have previously achieved success. 

There have even been cases in which the original song has not been successful, but the cover version has managed to reach the top of the charts. An example of this is the mythical I Will Always Love You, soundtrack of the award-winning film The Bodyguard, performed by Whitney Houston, but whose authorship belongs to the country star Dolly Parton. For this reason, and in view of the specialized knowledge that the specialist who wants to dedicate themselves to this field must have, TECH and its team of experts have developed a complete and exhaustive program with which they will be able to investigate the keys to achieve it. This is the postgraduate diploma in Fundamentals of Musical Arrangement, a new and dynamic program that covers the intricacies of aesthetics, analysis and musical notation over 6 months of multidisciplinary education. 

All this, 100% online through 450 hours of theoretical, practical and additional content, this last one presented in different formats: detailed videos, research articles, additional readings, case studies, news, frequently asked questions, dynamic summaries of each unit and much more! This material will be available in a comfortable and accessible Virtual Campus designed according to the latest academic technology, which is also compatible with any device with Internet connection. Therefore, the student will be able to attend an academic experience that, not only adapts to the highest level of quality, but with which they will be able to organize the academic schedule based on their own absolute availability. 

You will have 450 hours of multidisciplinary content to delve into aspects such as analysis or musical notation, among others”

This postgraduate diploma in Fundamentals of Musical Arrangement contains the most complete and up-to-date program on the market. The most important features include:

• Practical cases presented by experts in Psychology
• The graphic, schematic and practical contents of the book provide technical and practical information on those disciplines that are essential for professional practice
• Practical exercises where self-assessment can be used to improve learning
• Its special emphasis on innovative methodologies
• Theoretical lessons, questions to the expert, debate forums on controversial topics, and individual reflection work
• Content that is accessible from any fixed or portable device with an Internet connection

You will work with the latest information related to musical notation and current aesthetics, contributing to the creation of adapted pieces based on the main sound techniques”

The program’s teaching team includes professionals from the sector who contribute their work experience to this educational program, as well as renowned specialists from leading societies and prestigious universities. 

The multimedia content, developed with the latest educational technology, will provide the professional with situated and contextual learning, i.e., a simulated environment that will provide immersive education programmed to learn in real situations. 

This program is designed around Problem-Based Learning, whereby the professional must try to solve the different professional practice situations that arise during the academic year For this purpose, the student will be assisted by an innovative interactive video system created by renowned and experienced experts.

The exhaustive design of this program will help you understand and manage the main concepts developed throughout time by musical thought"

You will have unlimited access to the virtual campus 24 hours a day, so you can organize your schedule according to your own availability"

The exhaustive mastering of the main techniques of transcription, adaptation and reduction used in musical arrangements has been the reason used by TECH to create this program. Therefore, the objective of this program is to provide the student with the most exhaustive and innovative information related to aesthetics, analysis and sound notation that are currently used, allowing them to implement in their practice the best strategies to perform Covers at the highest level.

The more ambitious your objectives are, the more you will be able to take advantage of this postgraduate diploma thanks to the quantity and quality of the theoretical, practical and additional material included”

General Objectives

• Practice, identify and get to know characteristic rhythmic facts: syncopation, anacrusa, etc
• Awaken the student's critical sense 
• Master the main pedagogical strategies of music education and their relation with didactic methods   
• Activate the capacity of memorization and psychomotor coordination 
• Reason and debate on a musical work or text, placing them within the framework of the aesthetic-musical problems they pose

Specific Objectives

Module 1. Musical Aesthetics

• Understand and manage the main concepts elaborated over time by musical thought
• Know the main currents of musical aesthetics, through a systematic study of the main problems dealt with by the discipline
• Make a critical judgment on a given musical reality, placing it in the context of the great aesthetic-musical polemics
• Develop the intellectual maturity of the student, his ability to understand, to relate and to make a critical judgment on a given aesthetic problem

Module 2. Musical Analysis

• Perceive, through listening, both by conventional means and with the use of technologies, the elements and procedures that make up a musical work and grasp the diversity of resources and essential features it includes
• Recognize the features of the main musical styles: harmony, melody, texture, rhythm, instrumentation, ornamentation, etc. and be able to detect some of these features in works belonging to different periods or styles as reminiscences of the past
• Understand the relationship between music and text in vocal works or vocal and instrumental works in different historical periods
• Acquire a lexicon and terminology adequate to express and describe, orally and in writing, the analytical processes associated with the study of musical works and styles, as well as musical processes, paying attention not only to the objective component of music but also to the subjective component, what the listener perceives
• Know the music of other cultures, their characteristics, the feelings they provoke and the function they fulfill in their social-historical context, learn to value them and understand the influence they have had on Western music throughout history

Module 3. Musical Notation

• Know the basic principles of vocal musical notation from the Middle Ages to the Baroque according to the criteria of scientific transcription
• Apply correctly the criteria and methods of critical edition in the musicological field and the paleographic techniques of transcription of instrumental music, from the Middle Ages to the present day
• Know the manuscripts and sources of music through the historical course
• Acquire the resources to be fluent in any repertoire of historical music in its original writing

A program that goes through centuries of music history in a dynamic way so that you can learn about the different trends, as well as the success strategies of the best composers”