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MUZ00BASSO-C-1-OPT - Basso Continuo optional8994/4516/2526/1/06
Study guide

MUZ00BASSO-C-1-OPT - Basso Continuo optional

8994/4516/2526/1/06
Academic year 2025-26
Is found in:
  • Bachelor of Arts in Music
    Choice package:
    • Keuzepakket Optie- of nevenvakken (12)
    • Keuzepakket Optie- of nevenvakken (15)
    • Keuzepakket Optie- of nevenvakken (3)
    • Keuzepakket Optie- of nevenvakken (6)
    • Keuzepakket Optie- of nevenvakken (9)
  • Bachelor of Arts in Music
    Choice package:
    • Keuzepakket Optie- of nevenvakken (12)
    • Keuzepakket Optie- of nevenvakken (15)
    • Keuzepakket Optie- of nevenvakken (3)
    • Keuzepakket Optie- of nevenvakken (6)
    • Keuzepakket Optie- of nevenvakken (9)
  • Bachelor of Arts in Music
    Choice package:
    • Keuzepakket Optie- of nevenvakken (12)
    • Keuzepakket Optie- of nevenvakken (3)
    • Keuzepakket Optie- of nevenvakken (6)
    • Keuzepakket Optie- of nevenvakken (9)
  • Bachelor of Arts in Music
    Choice package:
    • Keuzepakket Optie- of nevenvakken (12)
    • Keuzepakket Optie- of nevenvakken (3)
    • Keuzepakket Optie- of nevenvakken (6)
    • Keuzepakket Optie- of nevenvakken (9)
  • Master of Arts in Music
    Choice package:
    • Keuzepakket Optie- of nevenvakken (12)
    • Keuzepakket Optie- of nevenvakken (15)
    • Keuzepakket Optie- of nevenvakken (18)
    • Keuzepakket Optie- of nevenvakken (3)
    • Keuzepakket Optie- of nevenvakken (6)
    • Keuzepakket Optie- of nevenvakken (9)
  • Master of Arts in Music
    Choice package:
    • Keuzepakket Optie- of nevenvakken (12)
    • Keuzepakket Optie- of nevenvakken (15)
    • Keuzepakket Optie- of nevenvakken (18)
    • Keuzepakket Optie- of nevenvakken (3)
    • Keuzepakket Optie- of nevenvakken (6)
    • Keuzepakket Optie- of nevenvakken (9)
This is a single course unit.
Study load: 6 credits
Weight: 6,00
Total study time: 180,00 hours
Possible deadlines for learning account: 30.11.2025 (Course takes place from beginning until end of academic year)
Nature: Optional course
Co-ordinator: Riepe Dominik (dut)
Other teaching staff: Naessens Bart (dut,eng)
Language course: No
Languages: Dutch, English
Scheduled for: Academic Year
This course unit is marked out of 20 (rounded to an integer).
Re-sit exam: is possible.
Possibility of tolerance: A result of less than 8/20 is not tolerablefor this course unit.
Preservability: The result of this course unit is preservable according to the terms of the program you are enrolled for.

Course Content

- Practical exercises, observing differences in style and genre
- Eventually solo pieces and improvisation

Type of Teaching

Individual music education
Individual instruction in music15,00 hours
Preparation for the course
Course preparation165,00 hours

Course Objectives

- Acquiring historical and theoretical knowledge about basso continuo
- Applying this knowledge in practice
- Thorough development of the artistic personality and expressivity

Evaluation

Evaluation(s) for first exam chance
MomentForm%Remark
Permanent evaluation (exam period excluded)Observation100,00
Evaluation(s) for re-sit exam
MomentForm%Remark
Exam period August/SeptemberArtistic test100,00

Course Material(s)

guidebook
selection from baroque continuos, tutors, basses for improvisation and other study materialMandatory
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  • Not in stock

Course Material(s): Mandatory

Historical and contemporary treatises

Historical representative repertory

Prerequisites

CodeDescriptionLevel
ESOFinal attainment level: secundary educationIntroductory

Acquired competences

CodeDescriptionLevelCategory
BMUZIZ_LO01LO1: Technical control The Bachelor graduate masters his/her instrument technically, has physical control and deploys it for the development of an artistic personality.IntroductoryDLR,SWT
BMUZIZ_LO02LO2: Sensory control The Bachelor graduate shows that he/she has a developed musical ear and memory, plays music with rhythmic stability and integrates different sensory and intellectual capacities.IntroductoryDLR,SWT
BMUZIZ_LO03LO3: Style insight The Bachelor graduate shows that he/she has the required style knowledge.IntroductoryDLR,SWT
BMUZIZ_LO04LO4: Musical language control and integration The Bachelor graduate shows that he/she has insight into different musical parameters, names them and uses them in his/her own performance practice. Theoretic and cultural knowledge is applied in practice.IntroductoryDLR,SWT
BMUZIZ_LO05LO5: Artistic research skills The bachelor in music applies methods and technics regarding artistic research on a starting level. He/she collects and processes information, sees changing contexts, develops ideas and acts in a problem solving way.IntroductoryDLR,SWT
BMUZIZ_LO06LO6: Musical language application The Bachelor graduate applies the gained musical insight and deals creatively with the offered material including in the preparation and study method.IntroductoryDLR,SWT
BMUZIZ_LO07LO7: Musical imagination The Bachelor graduate shows that he/she has auditory competence and a developed musical imagination that not only integrates knowledge and skills but also emotion and intuition.IntroductoryDLR,SWT
BMUZIZ_LO09LO9: Presentation skills The Bachelor graduate has podium presence at a level that allows him/her to transfer his/her musical message fully.IntroductoryDLR,SWT
BMUZIZ_LO10LO10: Creative expression The Bachelor graduate uses musical language and imagination and ensemble and presentation skills to convert an existing composition into an expressive artistic performance in an expressive/inventive manner.IntroductoryDLR,SWT
BMUZIZ_LO11LO11: Communication skills The Bachelor graduate communicates through and about his/her artistic work. In the first place, the communication takes place through the music itself, but also through written and/or verbal explanation.IntroductoryDLR,SWT
BMUZIZ_LO12_25-26LO12: Socio-cultural position The bachelor in Music can reflect and communicate about his/her place in society and the international artistic scene, from an artistic and critical-reflective position. He/she can thereby place his/her practical and theoretical knowledge within a cultural context and is able to function within an intercultural environment.IntroductoryDLR,SWT
BMUZIZ_LO13LO13: Continuous artistic development LO 13 The bachelor in music can explain the importance of developing him/herself continuously as an artist.IntroductoryDLR,SWT
BMUZIZ_LO14LO14: Artistic vision The bachelor in music develops (under supervision) his/her own project to an artistic product and knows the possibilities to share this with a public. He/she starts to develop a personal vision on the process of his/his artistic career.IntroductoryDLR,SWT

Course Sequence

There are no prerequisites for this course.