PRODUCTION, DIFFUSION AND FRUITION OF MUSIC II

Analysis of the principal systems of production, circolation and consumption of European art music, with particular reference to Italian music history.

- knowledge of the economic dynamics of music production
- active participation in group research project

Basic knowledge of music history.

Lessons will focus on the dynamics of consumption of Italian art music for the church, theatre concerts and private music-making, and on how compositional style and performance practices respond to these dynamics. If the number of students is not eccessively high, the second half of the course will be devoted to one or more research projects on the economics of music history, undertaken by students with the teacher's personal supervision.

- Beth L. Glixon and Jonathan E. Glixon, 'Inventing the Business of Opera. The Impresario and His World in Seventeenth-Century Venice'. New York, Oxford University Press, 2006

- 'Produzione, circolazione e consumo. Consuetudine e quotidianità della polifonia sacra nelle chiese monastiche e parrocchiali dal tardo Medioevo alla fine degli Antichi Regimi', ed. David Bryant and Elena Quaranta. Bologna, Il Mulino, 2006

- 'Storia dell'opera italiana', ed. Lorenzo Bianconi and Giorgio Pestelli, vol. 4 ('Il sistema produttivo e le sue competenze'. Turin, EdT, 1987

The exam will focus on discussion of a paper prepared by the student on the basis of a research project, and on the course bibliography.

Conventional essons/seminars. Research projects conducted in archives and other institutions.

Italian

written and oral