PRODUCTION AND FRUITION OF MUSIC - I

It is intended to focus on the mechanisms of musical production systems, especially in the 19th and 20th centuries, in european theater and concert halls.

1. Knowledge and understanding: understand and be able to analyze critical and theoretical texts that deal with the history of musical production systems, know how to use the resources offered by computer platforms, with regard to audiovisual sources.
2. Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: to develop a critical conscience in relation to some essential works in the history of music.
3. Ability to judge: ability to formulate conscious exegesis, in relation to the social history of the arts and to politics.
4. Communication skills: reaching an advanced domain of public communication, in close dialogue with one's colleagues and interacting with the teacher, knowing how to exploit the many possibilities that the research offers modern means of communication.
5. Learning skills: knowing how to handle critical texts and bibliographies.

The student will have acquired basic knowledge on the functioning of theater and concert seasons and on the management systems of musical institutions, deepening aspects of artistic programming in relation to the subject dealt with in a specialized manner.

The student will have to acquire basic knowledge of the history of musical productive systems (see, among the reference texts, the essays in the History of Italian Opera, ed. by Lorenzo Bianconi and Giorgio Pestelli, part II: Opera Production and Its Resources, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1998)

Milan at opera: the production system of the Teatro alla Scala.

The Teatro alla Scala is universally known today as excellence in the field of opera. The history from birth will be studied, as far as possible, and the production system of a tireless machine that supplies art and culture to the world since 1778, frequented by the greatest artists and intellectuals at any time. If until the mid-nineteenth century the Piermarini room was among the first, together with the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples and the Fenice in Venice, in the second part it established itself on all the other theaters, obtaining a record that it still holds today also thanks, in modern times, to two musical directors who honored Italy: Arturo Toscanini and Claudio Abbado.

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Cenni sul teatro alla Scala, a cura della Commissione teatrale, 1881
Angela I, De Benedictis, Vincenzina C. Ottomano, Claudio Abbado alla Scala, Milano, Rizzoli, 2008.
Milano, laboratorio musicale del Novecento. Scritti per Luciana Pestalozza, a cura di Oreste Bossini, Milano, Archinto, 2009.
Fiamma Nicolodi, Il sistema produttivo dall’Unità a oggi, nella Storia dell’Opera italiana, a cura di Lorenzo Bianconi e Giorgio Pestelli, vol. 4 Il sistema produttivo e le sue competenze, Torino, EDT/Musica, 1987, pp. 167-229.
Teatro alla Scala. Cronologia di tutti gli spettacoli rappresentati in questo teatro dal giorno del solenne suo aprimento sino ad oggi, con introduzione e notazioni compilate da Luigi Romani, Milano, Pirola, 1862
Notizie storiche e descrizione dell'I. R. Teatro della Scala corredata di tavole illustrative e di un prospetto delle dimensioni e capacità in confronto anche di alcuni de'principali teatri d’Europa, coll’elenco de’ palchi di ragione privata, e de’rispettivi proprietarj, Milano, Salvi, 1856
John Rosselli, Sull’ali dorate. Il mondo musicale italiano dell’Ottocento, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1992
Id., Il sistema produttivo, 1780-1880, in Il sistema produttivo e le sue competenze, cit., pp. 77-165
Harvey Sachs, Musica e regime [Music in Fascist Italy, 1984], Milano, il Saggiatore, 1995: Capitolo VI. Il caso Toscanini, pp. 271-313; poscritto (1994) al «Caso Toscanini», pp. 315-317, epilogo, pp. 319-321
Id., Toscanini [1978], Milano, il Saggiatore, 1998.
Teatro alla Scala, 1776-1881; commissioni teatrali, cenni storici e descrittivi, pianta del fabbricato. Serie delle opere in musica [...] Serie dei balli [... ]. Compilazione di Pompeo Cambiasi, Milano, Ricordi, 1881.
Carlo Steno Rossi, Il teatro come impresa: la Fenice negli anni 1836-66, «Quaderni dell’Archivio Storico», 1, Venezia 2005.

Oral examinatione: interview on the topics discussed in the course

Lectures, with the help of all the tools of computer science, to propose material in video, diagrams, read and discuss on-line bibliography, musical examples also on the piano.

Italian

During the first lesson the articulation of the course will be presented. Presence is recommended.

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