HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY OF MUSIC

Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher: GRAZIELLA SEMINARA

Expected Learning Outcomes

According to the Dublin descriptors, students, at the end of the course, will demonstrate:

1. Knowledge and understanding

Acquisition of the knowledge necessary understanding of the role of the music in the context of European artistic and cultural History and in the cultural contemporary landscape

2. Ability to apply knowledge and understanding

Ability to apply the knowledge mentioned in point 1) within a path of in-depth study and conceptualization

3. Autonomy of judgment

Ability to integrate knowledge and handle complexity, and formulate judgements on the works of musical theatre

4. Communication skills

Ability to communicate their conclusions, and knowledge and rationale under pinning these, to specialist and non specialist audiences clearly and unambiguously

5. Learning skill

Development of learning skills that are necessary to undertake further study with a high degree of autonomy. Development of abilities for conscious listening and observation of historical-contextual and intermedial relationships, with the projection of these skills onto a possible future path of master's-level education.

Course Structure

Frontal lessons

Attendance of Lessons

Attendance is not compulsory

Detailed Course Content

The first part of the course will be devoted to the theory and techniques of film music with particular attention to the role of Western art music.

The second part of the course will be devoted to interaction between images and sound in avant-garde cinema of the 1920s and ‘30s and in filmic writing by Luchino Visconti, Stanley Kubrick, Miloš Forman.

Textbook Information

A.  Theory and techniques of film music (3 ECTS)

Texts:

- S. Miceli, Musica per film. Storia. Estetica - Analisi, Tipologie, Milano, Ricordi-Lim, 2009, pp. 37-146, 167-199, 305-368, 607-699

 

2. Music and images in avant-garde cinema of the 1920s and ‘30s and in filmic writing by Luchino Visconti, Stanley Kubrick, Miloš Forman (3 ECTS)

Texts:

- P. Bertetto, Fritz Lang. Metropolis, Torino, Lindau, 2001, pp. 1-72

- L. Micciché, Visconti e il neorealismo, Venezia, Marsilio, 1998, pp. 75-190

- M. Solomon, Mozart, Milano, Mondadori, 1995, pp. 3-37, 46-56, 211-247, 300-313

- A. Noguero, Il ‘doppio adattamento’ di «Amadeus»: dalla storia al teatro e dal teatro al cinema, «Comunicazioni sociali», 3 (2011), pp. 251-269

- M. Solomon, Su Beethoven. Musica mito psicanalisi utopia, Torino, Einaudi, 1998, pp. 240-252

- G. Seminara, Il sonoro nei film di Kubrick e il gioco tra i codici, «Musica/Realtà», 59/2 (1999), pp. 57-73

 

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

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