HISTORY OF MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
cod. 15004

Academic year 2008/09
3° year of course - First semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Musicologia e storia della musica (L-ART/07)
Field
Discipline storiche e artistiche
Type of training activity
Related/supplementary
40 hours
of face-to-face activities
5 credits
hub:
course unit
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Learning objectives

Beginning from the example of a local situation, this course aims to examine the salient aspects of a wider phonomenon evident in Italy fron the seventeenth-century to the current day.

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

<p> Mod. A: Taking the case of Parma as a starting-point, the following aspects of Italian musical life from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century will be analysed: <br />
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- economy and society <br />
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- production and representation <br />
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- spaces: theatres and concert halls, open-air spaces, virtual spaces <br />
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- technology: instruments, stage-craft, sound reproduction devices <br />
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- communication: performances, diffusion of information orally or through the press, reproduction, mass-media <br />
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- protagonists: authors, interpreters, performers, managers, officials, communicators, audiences <br />
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- language: forms and genres <br />
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Mod. B: The second part of the course will explore selected topics from the first module in greater depth, through the analysis of sound and audio-visual materials. </p>

Full programme

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Bibliography

1) Storia dell'opera italiana: Vol. 4: Il sistema produttivo e le sue competenze, a cura di G. Pestelli e L. Bianconi, Torino, EdT, 1987 <br />
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2) Storia della musica, a cura della Società Italiana di Musicologia, Edt/Musica, Torino, 1991 sgg. <br />
- Lorenzo Bianconi, Il Seicento <br />
- Alberto Basso, L’età di Bach e Haendel <br />
- Giorgio Pestelli, L'età di Mozart e Beethoven <br />
- Renato Di Benedetto, Romanticismo e scuole nazionali nell'Ottocento <br />
- Fabrizio Della Seta, Italia e Francia nell'Ottocento <br />
- Guido Salvetti, La nascita del Novecento <br />
- Gianfranco Vinay, Il Novecento nell'Europa orientale e negli Stati Uniti <br />
- Andrea Lanza, Il secondo Novecento <br />
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3) Lorenzo Bianconi, Il teatro d’opera in Italia, Il Mulino, Bologna, 1993 <br />
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4) Marco Capra, Il teatro d’opera a Parma. Quattrocento anni, dal Farnese al Regio, Cinisello Balsamo, Silvana Editoriale, 2007 <br />

Teaching methods

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Assessment methods and criteria

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Other information

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