HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY OF MUSIC

Academic Year 2022/2023 - Teacher: GRAZIELLA SEMINARA

Expected Learning Outcomes

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

1. knowledge of History of Modern and Contemporary Music

2. knowledge and comprehension of role of the music in the cultural contemporary landscape 

3. learning skills necessary to undertake further study with a high degree of autonomy

Course Structure

Frontal teaching with guided listening

Required Prerequisites

Knowledge of the history of Literature and Modern and Contemporary Art  

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

Module 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

 

Module B -  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) L

Texts:

- G. Seminara, Musica e immagini in Nuova Babilonia tra letteratura e arti figurative, «Arabeschi», 11, 2018, pp. 67-90

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

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

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

- 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

Learning Assessment

Learning Assessment Procedures

Oral examination
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