Teaching code

4S008045

Academic staff

Vincenzo Borghetti, Elisa Grossato

Coordinator

Vincenzo Borghetti

Credits

6

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

L-ART/07 - MUSICOLOGY AND HISTORY OF MUSIC

Period

CuCi IIA, CuCi IIB

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars 0

Learning outcomes

The course aims at providing the students with an introduction to the history of music and, more generally, to musicology, presenting some of the various aspects in which these disciplines are articulated. The course offers a historical, cultural and social analysis of musical pieces chosen among the great masterpieces of the classical music repertoire. Listening to these pieces with comments will contribute to deepen the students’ knowledge about their historical and socio-cultural meanings. At the end of the course the student will have acquired capacity of orientation both in reading texts on music historiography and in the critical listening of music.

Program

This course aims to introduce students to the study of opera. The first part will focus on the theory of musical dramaturgy. The second will concentrate on Giuseppe Verdi’s opera "Aida" which will function as a case study on which we will try out recent methodological approaches and learn the most useful analytical tools.

Bibliography:
-- lecture notes
-- GLORIA STAFFIERI, "Un teatro tutto cantato. Introduzione all’opera italiana", Roma, Carocci, 2012 capp. 1-2 (pp. 17-99); capp. 4-5 (pp. 123-153 untile the end of paragraph 2 of section 5.2 "Moduli poetici e forme musicali")
-- FABRIZIO DELLA SETA, " Italia e Francia nell’Ottocento", Torino, EDT, 1993, pp. 3-55; pp. 208-239; pp. 288-298
-- JULIAN BUDDEN, "Aida" in "Le opere di Verdi, III, Da Don Carlos a Falstaff", Torino, EDT, 1988, pp. 171-276 and 576-586;
-- FABRIZIO DELLA SETA, "O cieli azzurri, esotismo e discorso drammatico in “Aida”" in “Non senza pazzia”. Prospettive sul teatro musicale", Roma, Carocci, 2008, pp. 47-63

If needed, further bibliography could be added during the therm

Examination Methods

Oral exam.
Due to the Coronavirus pandemic, and in accordance with the University of Verona guidelines, the assessment modality during ​the 2021 summer and autumn session the assessment modality will be modified as follows: online oral exam.