Teaching code

4S003573

Teacher

Vincenzo Borghetti

Coordinatore

Vincenzo Borghetti

Credits

6

Also offered in courses

• Master’s degree in Tradition and Interpretation of Literary Texts
• Master's degree in Arts (interuniversity)

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

L-ART/07 - MUSICOLOGY AND HISTORY OF MUSIC

Period

First half of Semester 2 , Second half of Semester 2

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars

Learning outcomes

The course aims to introduce students to the issues and methods concerning the study of the relationship between music and the media, focusing especially on the technologies used to fix, transmit, read and listen to music in the western world from the Middle Ages to the present.

Program

Writing, reading, listening to music from the Middle Ages to the digital era. The course offers a history of music through its media, focusing especially on their material and technological features, their uses, and their social, cultural and ideological aspects, starting from the oldest documented forms of mediatization (manuscripts, prints) and ending with the most recent ones (digital audiovisual media).

Bibliography
All books are available in the University library. The symbol * marks books available in the E-learning platform.
- lecture notes;
- NICHOLAS COOK, “Music: A Very Short Introduction”, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 1-51;
- MASSIMILANO LOCANTO, “Oralità, memoria e scrittura nella prima tradizione del canto gregoriano”, in “La scrittura come rappresentazione del pensiero musicale”, a cura di Gianmario Borio, ETS, Pisa 2004, pp. 31-87;
- VINCENZO BORGHETTI, “Il manoscritto di musica tra Quattro e Cinquecento”, in “Il libro di musica”, a cura di Carlo Fiore, L’Epos, Palermo 2004, pp. 89-114;
- STANLEY BOORMAN, “I primi stampatori musicali”, in “Il libro di musica”, a cura di Carlo Fiore, L’Epos, Palermo 2004, pp. 115-136;
- TIM CARTER, “L’editoria musicale tra Cinque e Seicento”, in “Il libro di musica”, a cura di Carlo Fiore, L’Epos, Palermo 2004, pp. 137-162;
- *EMANUELE SENICI, “Il video d’opera “dal vivo”: testualizzazione e liveness nell’era digitale”, «Il Saggiatore musicale», 2009/2, pp. 272-312;
- EMANUELE SENICI, “L’opera e la nascita della televisione italiana”, «Comunicazioni sociali», 2011/1, pp. 26-35;
- JACQUES HAINS, “Dal rullo di cera al CD”, in “Enciclopedia della musica”, diretta da Jean-Jacques Nattiez, vol. 1, “Il Novecento”, Einaudi, Torino 2001, pp. 783-819;
- GIANNI SIBILLA, “Musica e media digitali. Tecnologie. Linguaggi e forme sociali dei suoni dal walkman all’iPod”, Bompiani, Milano 2008, pp. 9-74 e 88-101.

Examination Methods

Written text: three questions to be answered in 1h and 30m.