Music History

The course provides an overview of the history of music from the modern to the contemporary age, focusing on listening to musical works.

At the end of the course, the student acquires the tools to understand the historical dynamics and some fundamental works of the period and learn to identify, through guided listening, the formal aspects of them.

In accordance with the Dublin Descriptors, in particular, students will acquire:

 

1. Knowledge and understanding

At the end of the course, students know and understand the historical dynamics in reference to the context of production, performance and reception of exemplary musical works.

 

2. Ability to apply knowledge and understanding

Ability to recognize and interpret formal aspects of musical works through guided listening and to know how to contextualize them.

 

3. Autonomy of judgment

Ability to critically read the phenomena in question and to insert them into a historical plot.

 

4. Communication skills

Ability to use, in an analytical and judgment-forming key, concepts taken from the areas of historical-critical-musicological studies.

 

5. Learning skills

Learning skills through listening-viewing experiences of musical works.

Lectures and lessons as listening workshop.

Knowledge of cultural history from the Renaissance to the Avantgardes

The course consists of two different modules: the first (A 1 CFU)  introduces the student to the Epistemological assumptions of Music History; the second (B 5 CFU) explains A preliminary survey on the music from the modern to the contemporary age.

A      Epistemological assumptions of Music History (1 CFU)

Texts:

- C. Dahlhaus-H. H. Eggebrecht, Che cos’è la musica?, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1998, pp. 100.

 

B      A preliminary survey on the music from the 16th to the 20th century (5 CFU)

Texts:

- P. Russo, In ascolto. Mappe sonore per la storia della musica, Lucca, LIM, 2022, pp. 238.

- D. Daolmi, Storia della musica. Dalle origini al Seicento, Firenze, Le Monnier, 2019, pp. 66 (selection).

- A. Malvano, Storia della musica. Dal Settecento all’età contemporanea, Firenze, Le Monnier, 2019, pp. 140 (selection).

 

Insights (optional):

- L. Bianconi, Il Seicento, Torino, EdT, 1991, pp. 47-65.

- G. Pestelli, L’età di Mozart e Beethoven, Torino, EdT, 1991, pp. 181-200; 217-269.

- R. Di Benedetto, L’Ottocento e le scuole nazionali, Torino, Edt, 1991, pp. 3-44; 108-180.

- F. Della Seta, Italia e Francia nell’Ottocento, Torino, Edt, 1991, pp. 75-88.

- G. Salvetti, La nascita del Novecento, Torino, Edt, 1991, pp. 205-229.

 

Please remember that in compliance with art 171 L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.

For further information on sanctions and regulations concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian Association on Copyright).

All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.