Course catalogue | University of Parma

Professor
Academic discipline: Musicologia e storia della musica (L-ART/07)
Field: Discipline linguistico-letterarie, artistiche, storiche, demoetnoantropologiche e filosofiche
Type of training activity: Characterising

36 hours
of face-to-face activities

6 credits

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Learning objectives

The course aims to analyse the history of the italian opera from the XVII century to our day from the point of view of music and drama, and of social, economic and material aspects

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Course unit content

The course analyses the following aspects:
- Musica and drama in the opera
- Economy and society: production and representation
- Locations: theatres and concert halls, open air venues, virtual venues
- Technology: instruments, set construction, reproducers and diffusers
- Communication: shows, word of mouth and printed word, reproduction, mass-media
- Protagonists: composers, interpretors, players, managers, government, communicators, audience

Full programme

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Bibliography

1) Lorenzo Bianconi, Il teatro d'opera in Italia, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1993
2) Storia dell'opera italiana: Vol. 4: Il sistema produttivo e le sue competenze, a cura di G. Pestelli e L. Bianconi, Torino, EdT, 1987

Teaching methods

Oral and practical lesson

Assessment methods and criteria

Oral exam

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