MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS HISTORY

Academic year
2020/2021 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
STORIA DEGLI STRUMENTI MUSICALI
Course code
FT0326 (AF:331710 AR:184066)
Modality
On campus classes
ECTS credits
6
Degree level
Bachelor's Degree Programme
Educational sector code
L-ART/07
Period
4th Term
Course year
1
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The course provides skills that are essential in the professional figure of the graduate in Conservation and Management of Arts and Cultural Heritage. Students coming from other educational paths are welcome to follow the course. The course consists of 30 hours, organized in two weekly classes three hours long, each.
At the end of the course students will have familiarized with the following subjects:

- classification of music instruments;
- organology (rudiments);
- music notation for the instruments (in chronological perspective);
- literature for keyboard instruments (authors, music forms and repertoires in chronological perspective);
- social function and positioning of keyboards instruments and performers in chronological perspective.
No pre-requisites required, apart from a general knowledge of the main phenomena of modern history and history of the ancient régime.
Organology of keyboard instruments.
Music notation for the instrument.
Literature for the instruments from the Baroque to the 20th century (authors, forms and repertoires).
Social function of instruments and performers in a chronological perspective.
1. Curt Sachs, Storia degli strumenti musicali (I ed. 1940), Paolo Isotta and Maurizio Papini eds., Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, Milano 1980 (a choice of pages) (English version allowded)
2. Alda Bellasich et al., Il clavicembalo, EDT, Torino 2005 (a choice of pages)
3. Alfredo Casella, Il pianoforte, Ricordi, Milano 2000 (a choice of pages)
4. Ala Botti Caselli ed., Il pianoforte, EDT, Torino 2018

Other references:
- Gli strumenti musicali, Fabrizio Della Seta ed., Carocci, Roma 2012
Dizionario enciclopedico universale della musica e dei musicisti (Alberto Basso ed.), Torino, UTET, 1985-88

Oral conversation on the topics of the course. To start the exam, the student will present a relation on a topic chosen among those suggested in class. The student will be able to download the list of references during the course. Assessment will consider the ability of the students to use the technical vocabulary.
Blended teaching: frontal lessons, commented of audio-video materials.
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Definitive programme.
Last update of the programme: 30/08/2020