HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE MUSIC

Academic year
2021/2022 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
STORIA DELLA MUSICA MEDIEVALE E RINASCIMENTALE
Course code
FT0324 (AF:361873 AR:190278)
Modality
On campus classes
ECTS credits
6
Degree level
Bachelor's Degree Programme
Educational sector code
L-ART/07
Period
2nd Term
Course year
2
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This course will focus on the musical language, its forms and its practice in the historical-cultural context of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
- Knowledge and awareness of the historical and social context as well as of the main musical forms in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
- Ability to formulate a critical approach in relation to theoretical and musical texts
- Ability to analyze by listening and reading musical documents.
Basic knowledge in music
During the lessons, the fundamental themes of music theory and compositional techniques in European musical culture from the early Middle Ages to the dawn of the seventeenth century will be critically treated. Thanks to specific examples, the course will focus on the following topics: liturgical chant repertoires and Gregorian chant; the birth of musical notation; the sacred and profane polyphony of Ars Antiqua and Ars nova; the madrigal of the sixteenth century; the affirmation of the accompanied monody.
G. CATTIN, La monodia nel medioevo, nuova ed. ampliata riveduta e corretta, Torino, EDT, 1991 ed edizioni successive (Storia della musica, a cura della Società Italiana di Musicologia, 2).
F. A. GALLO, La polifonia nel medioevo, nuova ed. ampliata riveduta e corretta, Torino, EDT, 1991 ed edizioni successive (Storia della musica, a cura della Società Italiana di Musicologia, 3)
A.W. ATLAS, Renaissance Music: Music in Western Europe, 1400-1600, New York-London, Norton, 1998.
Musica e società, vol. 1: Dall'Alto Medievo al 1640, a cura di P. Fabbri e M. C. Bertieri, Milano, McGraw-Hill, 2012
The exam will consist of an oral interview on the topics discussed in the course.
Frontal lessons integrated with readings, musical examples and guided listening. In the last week of the course, the intervention of an expert on specific topics of the course is expected.
Italian
oral
This programme is provisional and there could still be changes in its contents.
Last update of the programme: 29/09/2021