PROPOSAL

The contents offered in the synchronous and the asynchronous activities refer to the proposal designed by the CUPIIA Directorate to establish correspondences between the improvement of the technique and its best execution, respecting the rediscovering of styles and dynamics that are addressed in each class. The international repertoire components of the program stand out for their complexity, depth and technical difficulty of execution, even at professional levels. The programmatic proposal adds many of the Argentine national rhythms that, throughout history, from nationalist music, to folklore, zamba or tango have contributed to the increase of the Argentine musical heritage, as well as the contemporary composers who, recovering different styles, have written for Harp. The CUPIIA Directorate will provide the participants with reading material, as well as other audiovisual materials such as videos, links, web addresses, online recordings, etc.

THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE

The CUPIIA intends to become a pioneering space within the Department of Musical and Sound Arts and also at a Latin American level, with respect to the instrumental training offer at the postgraduate level, and it is sustained on the two fundamental pillars mentioned above: the technique servicing the excellence and interpretive mastery on the one hand, and the academic-artistic research of the young professional students on the other.

The CUPIIA seeks to build an international virtual environment, to promote interpretation skills at their best, as well as to promote familiarization with research in the new generations of harpists from around the world, making their contribution from their point of view. It seeks to spread the local, autochthonous and original folkloric tradition, the trajectory and the historical prestige of the native compositions and authors, from the South to the global South and to the global North. The curricular design seeks not to overlap the moments of study (classes) with the research phase simultaneously. In this way, the format of the Research phase interspersed between both semesters was the preferred structure chosen by the CUPIIA Directorate.

GUIDING READING MATERIAL FOR EACH MASTERCLASS

The participants will receive the fundamental reading material to be able to dimension and contextualize both from the artistic point of view as well as from a musicology perspective, the sense or meaning of the pieces, as well as the historical, cultural and geographical context that frames the authors and their creative processes. The material will be sent online to each of the participants and it will also be uploaded to the Forum of the virtual platform of the Department of Musical and Sound Arts.

GUIDING AREAS OF THE RESEARCH PHASE CUPIIA

Participants must perform during the period between the 1st. and 2nd. module (Semesters), most of the required research activity that presupposes an hourly dedication of 30 hours clock per month. The instructions will be presented asynchronously to the participants through the DAMus online platform and synchronously during the special classes. The final work may be a traditional academic / essay article of between five (5) to seven (7) pages or an artistic-practical presentation/performance, in which case the participants must 16 still justify and explain in writing in a briefing, either in one (1) or two (2) pages.

In either case, the theme will be proposed by the participant and accepted by the CUPIIA Directorate, and it must always be -regardless of the chosen format- an original and innovative proposal that contributes to the development of the harp in a certain and concrete way. General Inquiries to: ArpaPosgrado@gmail.com