MUSICAL DRAMA
cod. 1004114

Academic year 2011/12
2° year of course - First semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Musicologia e storia della musica (L-ART/07)
Field
Ambito aggregato per crediti di sede
Type of training activity
48 hours
of face-to-face activities
6 credits
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course unit
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Learning objectives

Knowledge of fundamental structures of verdian musical dramaturgy: Lyric form, bar form, solita forma" and their dramatic use

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

Musical Dramaturgy in Verdi: stylistic models and dramaturgical contaminations

Full programme

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Bibliography

Gilles de Van, Verdi. Un teatro in musica, Firenze, la Nuova Italia, 1994

Giorgio Pagannone, Aspetti della melodia verdiana. Periodo e barform a confronto, in «Studi verdiani», XII, 1997, pp. 48-66

Julian Budden, Le opere di Verdi. I-III, Torino, EdT, 1983

Piero Weiss, Verdi e la fusione dei generi, in La drammaturgia musicale a cura di Lorenzo Bianconi, Bologna, il Mulino, 1986, pp. 75-92

Emanuele Senici, Virgins of The Rocks: Alpine Landscape and Female Purity in Early Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera, Ph.D, Cornell University, 1998, pp. 216-266

Harold Powers, “La solita forma” e “l’uso delle convenzioni”, in Estetica e drammaturgia della “Traviata”. Tre studi sul teatro d’opera di Verdi, a cura di Emanuele Ferrari, Milano, CUEM, 2001, pp. 11-66

Teaching methods

Laboratories with discussions of lectures and analysis of operas

Assessment methods and criteria

Discussion of a thesis writtten by the students

Other information

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