PRODUCTION, DIFFUSION AND FRUITION OF MUSIC II

The course is a core module in the MA degree in Arts Management, where it forms a sequel to Production and Fruition of Music I, and Music and Show Business I. It provides an examination of the production and consumption of music in the context of daily social and economic practice in Italy. Course activity includes group or individual research on aspects of the economic history of music, conducted directly by students under the supervision of course teacher.

- knowledge of the economic dynamics of music production
- active participation in group research project
- presentation and discussion of research projects

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