Teaching code

4S001451

Teacher

Vincenzo Borghetti

Coordinator

Vincenzo Borghetti

Credits

6

Also offered in courses:

• History of Music of the course Bachelor's degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures
• History of Music (p) of the course Bachelor’s degree in Cultural Heritage

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

L-ART/07 - MUSICOLOGY AND HISTORY OF MUSIC

Period

1 B dal Nov 15, 2021 al Jan 12, 2022.

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars 0

Learning outcomes

The course aims to introduce students to the advanced study of music in its relationship with culture and society through the analysis of particularly relevant musical phenomena and works.

Program

"La Gerusalemme liberata" in Music: from Tasso to Rossini. The story Tancredi and Clorinda, that of the sorcerer Armida and her unhappy love for the crusader Rinaldo constitutes ones of the foremost narratives of Torquato Tasso’s "Jerusalem Delivered". The musical reception of these subjects was exceptionally wide, especially in opera and madrigal: both Armida and Rinaldo and Clorinda quickly met with a long-lasting musical fortune, well above any other narratives from sixteenth-century epic literature. The course will begin with an analysis of Tasso’s text, and will then focus on two among its most important musical settings and operatic stagings: "Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda" by Claudio Monteverdi "Armide" by Jean-Baptiste Lully (1686). In the first part of the course, these compositions will function as case studies through which we will analyze the aesthetic, dramaturgical and ideological transformations of a literary subject as it moved between different genres and media. The second part of the course will be a seminar: students will analyse (under the guidance of the lecturer) some of the most significant operatic transpositions of the story of Armida and Rinaldo from the late eighteenth century to Rossini, in order to directly experiment the methodologies learned in the first part of the course. The seminar will also help students to investigate the main features of crucial moments in the history of opera: tragédie en musique in Louis XIV’s-Lous XVI’s France, opera in Italy ca. 1750-1820.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
- lecture notes;
- EMILIO RUSSO, "Guida alla lettura della 'Gerusalemme liberata' di Tasso," Roma-Bari, Laterza 2014;
*- MARIO ARMELLINI, “Le due ‘Armide’. Metamorfosi estetiche e drammaturgiche da Lully a Gluck”, Firenze, Passigli 1993, 9-86; 110-115; 137-191;
*- CHARLES S. BRAUNER, “Da Tasso a Rossini: le metamorfosi di Armida”, in “Armida”, a cura di C. S. Brauner, Pesaro, Fondazione Rossini 2000 (I libretti di Rossini, 7), pp. XI-CXXIV;
*- PAOLO FABBRI, "Monteverdi", Torino, EDT 1985, pp. 248-252;
* - STEFANO LA VIA, "Il lamento di Armida abbandonata nella lettura polifonica di Claudio Monteverdi. Un’analisi poetico-musicale del madrigale “Vattene pur, crudel” (1592).", only pp. 1-20 (paragraph 3.4 included);
*- BRUNO CAGLI, “Dolci inganni, soavi catene”, in Gioachino Rossini, “Armida”, progamma di sala del Rossini Opera Festival 2014, pp. 13-21;
*- PATRICIA B. e CHARLES S. BRAUNER, “’Armida’: l’edizione critica e l’opera”, in Gioachino Rossini, “Armida”, progamma di sala del Rossini Opera Festival 2014, pp. 35-42;
* - VINCENZO BORGHETTI, "Appunti sull'opera italiana del primo Ottocento", pp. 1-9.
All books are available in the University library. The symbol * marks books that will be available in the Moodle platform.

- an edition of the "Gerusalemme liberata" di Torquato Tasso. Free downloadable text: http://www.liberliber.it/mediateca/libri/t/tasso/gerusalemme_liberata/pdf/gerusa_p.pdf; free downloadable commeted edition: http://scans.library.utoronto.ca/pdf/9/14/lagerusalemmel00tass/lagerusalemmel00tass.pdf.

Libretti/sung texts
*- MONTEVERDI, "Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda", text and score
*- MONTEVERDI, "Vattene pur crudel", score
*- LULLY, “Armide”, libretto and score
*- GLUCK, "Armide", libretto and score
*- ROSSINI, “Armida”, libretto.
The symbol * marks books that will be available in the Moodle platform. Further libretti could be added during the therm

Audio/Video of the operas/compositions:
- CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI, "Vattene pur crudel" (available on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btdY76ugzcQ);
- CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI, "Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda" (available on YouTube YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT_Ktsg86gs)
- JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY, “Armide”, dir.Robert Carsen, cond. William Christie, 2 DVD FRA Musica 2011 (available at the University LIbrary, reference Desk; available on YouTube YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zrbaEHomag)
- CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK, "Armide", dir. Ivor Bolton (Amsterdam 2013) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IB-Yq1WdF2M
- GIOACHINO ROSSINI, “Armida”, dir. Mary Zimmermann, cond. Riccardo Frizza, 2 DVD Decca 2010 (available at the University LIbrary, reference Desk; available on YouTube: Act 1 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T59oqypWkg4); act 2 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6H6-XXP21w); act 3 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsBRiy0ojr8).

If needed, further bibliography could be added during the therm

Examination Methods

Written text: three questions to be answered in 1h and 30m. The questions will be about the operas/compositions analyzed in the course (e.g. 1 on "Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda", one on Lully’s "Armide" and one on Rossini’s "Armida").

How to register for the exam
Students intending to sit the exam for this course must:
- enter their name online for “appello scritto NON VERBALIZZANTE”
- after the written exam, wait for the publication of grades in the section “avvisi” of the professor’s webpage (http://www.dcuci.univr.it/?ent=persona&id=4950&lang=it#tab-avvisi).
- Students who want their grade to be officially registered must enter their name online for the “appello VERBALIZZANTE” (or “di VERBALIZZAZIONE”). This “appello” does NOT require a student’s physical presence: the professor will register the grade online in his own time.