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502080 - MUSIC THEORY 1

courses
ID:
502080
Duration (hours):
36
CFU:
6
SSD:
MUSICOLOGIA E STORIA DELLA MUSICA
Located in:
CREMONA
Year:
2025
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Overview

Date/time interval

Secondo Semestre (02/03/2026 - 12/06/2026)

Syllabus

Course Objectives

The objective of this course is to familiarize the students with the most important issues of tonal composition. It deals with the theoretical fundaments of counterpoint, harmony, form, rhythm, instrumentation and
performance with reference to musical treatises, and eventually the help of hermeneutics and semiotics, and communication theories.

Course Prerequisites

Fundaments of harmony and counterpoint.

Teaching Methods

The teaching is based on lectures combined with gradual checks of the the learning process. The material of the lectures is available for the students on a google drive.

Assessment Methods

Oral exam. The object of the individual colloquium are the theoretical
positions which were delineated during the course, the analyzed works
and a selection of the above listed bibliography.

Texts

– A. SCHÖNBERG, Elementi di composizione musicale, Milano, Suvini Zerboni, 1969.
– E. RATZ, Einführung in die musikalische Formenlehre, Wien, Universal Edition 1951 (19733)..
- W. CAPLIN, Classical Form, A Theory of Formal Functions for the Instrumental Music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000
– A. WEBERN, Über musikalische Formen. Aus den Vortragsmitschriften von Ludwig Zenk, Siegfried Oehlgiesser, Rudolf Schopf und Erna Apostel, hrsg. von Neil Boynton, Mainz, Schott, 2001.
– G. BORIO, Schenker versus Schoenberg versus Schenker. The Difficulties of a Reconciliation, “Journal of the Royal Musical Association”, 126/2, 2001, pp. 250-274.
– G. BORIO, La concezione dialettica della forma musicale da Adolf Bernhard Marx a Erwin Ratz. Abbozzo di un decorso storico, in Pensieri per un maestro. Studi in onore di Pierluigi Petrobelli, a cura di S. La Via e R. Parker, Torino, EDT 2002, pp. 361-386.
– S. BURNHAM, Form, in The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory, ed. by Th. Christensen, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp. 880-906.
– N. COOK, Forma e sintassi, in Enciclopedia della musica, diretta da J.-J. Nattiez con la collaborazione di R. Dalmonte e M. Baroni, vol. 2 Il sapere musicale, Torino, Einaudi, 2002, pp. 116-142.
– G. BORIO, Forma come sintassi o come energia: la morfologia musicale dopo Beethoven, in Storia dei concetti musicali, I/2: Espressione, forma, opera, a cura di G. Borio e C. Gentili, Roma, Carocci, 2007, pp. 191-211.
– C. DAHLHAUS, Sulla teoria della forma musicale, in ID., “In altri termini”. Saggi sulla musica, a cura di A. Fassone, Roma, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia/Ricordi, 2009, pp. 339-362.
J. SCHMALFELDT, In the Process of Becoming. Analytical and Philosophical Perspectives on Form in Early Nineteenth-Century Music, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2011.
– G. BORIO, L’impronta della filosofia hegeliana sulla teoria della forma musicale del XIX secolo, in Die Klage des Ideellen (Il lamento dell’ideale).Beethoven e la filosofia hegeliana, a cura di L. Michielon, Trieste, Edizioni dell’Università di Trieste, 2018, pp. 113-128.
-G. SANGUINETTI, Le sonate per pianoforte di Beethoven. Genere, forma, espressione, Lucca: LIM, 2020.
– G. BORIO, “La forma dei movimenti lenti nelle sonate di Beethoven: una ricognizione critica della trattatistica”, in Tra ragione e pazzia. Saggi di esegesi, storiografia e drammaturgia musicale in onore di Fabrizio Della Seta, a cura di Federica Rovelli, Claudio Vellutini e Cecilia Panti, Pisa: ETS, 2021, pp. 167-183
- G. BORIO, “Thinking Musical Form Today”, in Il Saggiatore Musicale 28/1 (2021), pp. 113-122.

Contents

Formal Structures in Beethoven's Piano Sonatas.
Fundamental questions of the theory of musical form since Adolf
Bernhard Marx will be discussed in historical perspective. Considering several exemples from the Beethovens' Piano Sonatas we will illustrate models of presentation and development of the musical idea.

Course Language

Italian

Degrees

Degrees

MUSICOLOGY 
Bachelor’s Degree
3 years
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People

People

BORIO GIANMARIO
AREA MIN. 10 - Scienze dell'antichita,filologico-letterarie e storico-artistiche
Settore PEMM-01/C - Musicologia e storia della musica
Gruppo 10/PEMM-01 - ARTI PERFORMATIVE, MUSICALI, CINEMATOGRAFICHE E MEDIALI
Professore Ordinario
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