HISTORY OF MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
cod. 15004

Academic year 2009/10
1° year of course - First semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Musicologia e storia della musica (L-ART/07)
Field
Discipline linguistiche, filologiche e metodologiche
Type of training activity
Characterising
40 hours
of face-to-face activities
6 credits
hub:
course unit
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Learning objectives

The course aims to delve into the main aspects of the history of Western music from the seventeenth century to the present day in terms of communication.

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

<p>Module A: La comunicazione musicale <br />
The course examines three characteristic aspects of musical communication: 1) Performance a) the rite and the feast (actors/spectators), b) the show (actors/spectators) 2) Technological reproduction a) the text (manuscript, printed, electronic), b) performance (recorded and televised) 3) Information a) promotion and dissemination; b) commentary and criticism (magazines, radio and television, internet, etc.). <br />
Module B: The second part of the course will recover some topics from the first module, but further examining the main aspects through the analysis of audio and audiovisual documents, recalling the evolution of the genres and styles of the XVII and XXI centuries. <br />
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Full programme

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Bibliography

1) Marco Capra, ed., Verdi in prima pagina. Giuseppe Verdi e la stampa internazionale dal 1839 al 1913, Grafiche Step Editrice, Parma, 2009 <br />
2) Alessandro Rigolli, ed., La divulgazione musicale in Italia, Edt, Turin, 2005 <br />
3) Daniele Cavicchia, MTV ITALIA, Discovery Edition, New York, 2009 <br />
4) Storia della musica, edited by the Società Italiana di Musicologia, Edt/Musica, Turin, 1991 ff. – 2 volumes of your choice from: <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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Other information

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