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HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE MUSIC
cod. 15003

borrowed from Corso di TIPO in CDS 0243 - STORIA DELLA MUSICA MEDIEVALE E RINASCIMENTALE - cod. 15003
Academic year 2008/09
2° year of course - First semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Musicologia e storia della musica (L-ART/07)
Field
Discipline dello spettacolo e della musica
Type of training activity
Related/supplementary
40 hours
of face-to-face activities
5 credits
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Learning objectives

Familiarity with the essential features of music of the Medieval, Humanist and Renaissance periods in Western civilisation.

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

Course title: The origins and development of the Western musical tradition. <br />
Module A (5 learning credits): Western music as a distinctive element spread by the Roman liturgy to European culture. Transition to the polyphonic system understood as a product of the ars. Development of the practice of composition in counterpoint. Development of speculative thought in Medieval and Renaissance theory. <br />
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Module B (5 learning credits): sequences, tropes and liturgical drama. Development of musical dramaturgy in the spiritual theatre between Humanism and Renaissance. The rediscovery of the “canto alla lira” as a humanistic product and Politian’s Fable of Orpheus. Development of the concept of accompanied monody and the birth of musical dramaturgy in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Florence. <br />
 

Full programme

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Bibliography

CATTIN, G.: La monodia del medioevo, Torino, EdT, 1991. <br />
GALLO, A.: La polifonia del medioevo, Torino EdT, 1991. <br />
GALLICO, C.: L'età dell'umanesimo e del rinascimento, Torino, EdT, 1991. <br />
(History volumes by the Società Italiana di Musicologia, nos. 2, 3 and 4 respectively). <br />
LUISI, F.: La musica vocale nel Rinascimento, Torino, ERI, 1977. <br />

Teaching methods

Classroom lectures – Discussion of bibliography and historiography – Research methods – Listening laboratory.

Assessment methods and criteria

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