HISTORY OF MUSIC II

The course is one of the core modules of the BA programme in Conservation of Cultural Heritage and Performing Arts Management (TARS curriculum). It provides students with a basic knowledge of the history of modern and contemporary music, with particular emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and introduces the fundamental tools required to understand the development of musical languages, genres, performance practices, and the main historical and cultural contexts of musical production and reception.

The course also aims to develop students’ ability to situate musical phenomena within the broader framework of European cultural history, fostering a critical understanding of the relationships between music, society, institutions, and the performing arts.

The course forms part of a two-module sequence (see Music History I). Students obtain the full 12 ECTS credits upon successful completion of both modules.

– demonstrate knowledge of the principal historical, social, and cultural contexts, as well as the musical forms that shaped music history between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries;
– understand the development of musical languages and the major genres of the modern and contemporary repertoire;
– formulate critical judgments on significant theoretical texts, sources, and musical works from the history of modern and contemporary music;
– analyse musical repertoires and documents through guided listening and the study of primary and secondary sources;
– situate musical works, composers, and musical practices within their broader historical and cultural contexts.

No entry requirements are requested.

Throughout the course, students will critically engage with the principal themes of the history of modern and contemporary music, with particular attention to the development of musical languages, forms, genres, and performance practices between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries.
Through the analysis of musical works, historical sources, and musical documents, the course will explore the relationship between music and society, the role of musical institutions, the emergence of the public concert, the rise of the modern composer, and the major aesthetic transformations that shaped the Romantic era and the twentieth century.
Particular attention will be devoted to selected genres and repertoires of the European instrumental tradition, examined within their historical, cultural, and production contexts, as well as to the principal movements and trends that contributed to redefining musical language between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Mario Carrozzo – Cristina Cimagalli, Storia della musica occidentale, vol. 3, Roma, Armando, 1999.
Renato Di Benedetto, Romanticismo e scuole nazionali nell'Ottocento, Torino, EDT, 1991.
Guido Salvetti, La nascita del Novecento , Torino, EDT, 1991.

Further critical bibliography will be given during the course.

Verification of the course preparation will be conducted by means of an oral examination. Three questions will be asked, relating to the contents of the textbooks and essays included in the programme.

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The instructor is responsible for ensuring the authenticity and originality of all examinations and coursework. In cases of suspected academic misconduct, an additional on-site assessment may be required during the exams, which may differ from the standard format.

Grading and assessment criteria:
The grading criteria will take into consideration the correctness and propriety in the use of theoretical lexicon (30%), the punctuality and extent of knowledge of the topics explored in depth in class and in any case learnt through the study of the exam bibliography (30%); the ability to critically elaborate the knowledge acquired to the case studies presented from time to time (30%), without forgetting a focus on the care of oral exposition (10%).

Grades in bands 18-22 will be awarded where the aforementioned points reach a sufficient level; grades in bands 23-26 will be awarded where the aforementioned points reach a fair level; grades in bands 27-30 will be awarded where the aforementioned points reach an excellent level; honours will be awarded where the aforementioned points reach an excellent level.

Frontal lessons integrated with readings, musical examples and guided listening.

During the first lesson the assessment methods and the structure of the course will be presented. Attendance is recommended.

Ca ’Foscari applies Italian law (Law 17/1999; Law 170/2010) for the support and accommodation services available to students with disabilities or specific learning disabilities. If you have a motor, visual, hearing or other disability (Law 17/1999) or a specific learning disorder (Law 170/2010) and you require support (classroom assistance, technological aids for carrying out exams or exams individualized, accessible format material, note retrieval, specialist tutoring to support the study, interpreters or other) contact the Disability and DSA office disita@unive.it.

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Human capital, health, education" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development