ID:
501294
Duration (hours):
36
CFU:
6
SSD:
MUSICOLOGIA E STORIA DELLA MUSICA
Located in:
CREMONA
Year:
2025
Overview
Date/time interval
Annualità Singola (29/09/2025 - 12/06/2026)
Syllabus
Course Objectives
The course provides the tools to understand techniques, styles and genres of music in Western society and culture from the seventeenth to the eighteenth century. At the end of the course, students will be able to recognize and identify different styles, genres and forms of the epoch in question starting from the analysis of their peculiar traits. They will also orient themselves in the production of the main composers on the basis of the most recent scientific acquisitions, which they will be able to account for.
Course Prerequisites
Good general preparation is assumed, at the high school level, in the fields of modern and contemporary history, literature and philosophical thought. Competences in tonal musical language, obtained through harmony and analysis courses given in MA or conservatory studies, or personal reading, are also assumed.
Teaching Methods
The lessons of the first module take place frontally (with the support of Power Point presentations, made available on the KIRO moodle platform) but are organized in such a way as to stimulate student participation in the analysis of the works studied.
Assessment Methods
The ability to provide a historical overview of the compositions discussed in class (attending students) or those chosen in the book for in-depth studies (non-attending students), and to discuss the main stylistic characters of them, will be tested during an oral examination. Students are recommended to have scores with themselves.
Texts
a. Attending students (at least 2/3 of the lessons)
The student must demonstrate knowledge of the history of music of the 17th-18th centuries, based on:
1) M. CARROZZO - C. CIMAGALLI, Storia della musica occidentale, vol. 2 (Roma: Armando 1998, and reprints); study of the chapter-closing supplements is not required; they are substituted for the in-depth studies covered in class;
2) in-depth listening of the compositions commented during the course, accompanied by the reading of the scores and with the help of the readings suggested by the teacher.
b. Not-attending students
The student must demonstrate knowledge of the history of music of the 17th-18th centuries, based on:
1) M. CARROZZO - C. CIMAGALLI, Storia della musica occidentale, vol. 2 (Roma: Armando 1998, and reprints);
2) in-depth listening of the compositions commented in each chapter of the textbook.
Reading suggestion (for everyone):
– Storia della musica ed. by Società Italiana di musicologia, Torino EDT;
– Breve lessico musicale, ed. by F. Della Seta and Dottorato di ricerca in Musicologia dell’Università di Pavia (Roma: Carocci 2009);
– Le parole del teatro musicale, a cura di F. Della Seta and Dottorato di ricerca in Musicologia dell’Università di Pavia (Roma, Carocci 2010);
– Gli strumenti musicali, a cura di F. Della Seta and Dottorato di ricerca in Musicologia dell’Università di Pavia (Roma: Carocci 2011).
The student must demonstrate knowledge of the history of music of the 17th-18th centuries, based on:
1) M. CARROZZO - C. CIMAGALLI, Storia della musica occidentale, vol. 2 (Roma: Armando 1998, and reprints); study of the chapter-closing supplements is not required; they are substituted for the in-depth studies covered in class;
2) in-depth listening of the compositions commented during the course, accompanied by the reading of the scores and with the help of the readings suggested by the teacher.
b. Not-attending students
The student must demonstrate knowledge of the history of music of the 17th-18th centuries, based on:
1) M. CARROZZO - C. CIMAGALLI, Storia della musica occidentale, vol. 2 (Roma: Armando 1998, and reprints);
2) in-depth listening of the compositions commented in each chapter of the textbook.
Reading suggestion (for everyone):
– Storia della musica ed. by Società Italiana di musicologia, Torino EDT;
– Breve lessico musicale, ed. by F. Della Seta and Dottorato di ricerca in Musicologia dell’Università di Pavia (Roma: Carocci 2009);
– Le parole del teatro musicale, a cura di F. Della Seta and Dottorato di ricerca in Musicologia dell’Università di Pavia (Roma, Carocci 2010);
– Gli strumenti musicali, a cura di F. Della Seta and Dottorato di ricerca in Musicologia dell’Università di Pavia (Roma: Carocci 2011).
Contents
Halfway between the monographic course and the textbook presentation of the entire historical scope, the module A offers "readings" of musical masterpieces from the seventeenth to the eighteenth century. Of each work essential historical data will be presented, updated to the recent research; the most significant pages will be commented from the musical and historical-cultural point of view; relationships with other previous, contemporary and successive compositions will also be highlighted. The provisional module program includes: 1. CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI, Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda; Lamento della ninfa; Il ballo delle ingrate, da Madrigali guerrieri et amorosi [.] Libro Ottavo (1638); 2. ARCANGELO CORELLI, Concerti grossi op. VI, Amsterdam 1714 (composti dal 1680 ca.); 3. JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH, Missa BWV 232 (1733-1749); 4. JOSEPH HAYDN, Die Schöpfung (La Creazione), Hob. XXI:2 (1798). Information on recordings and reference editions, as well as basic bibliographical information on the works discussed, will be provided in class. In the Department Library, there are critical and current editions and audio-video recordings of the works to be dealt with, as well as facsimile reproductions of the sources of some of them. Ancient and modern non- copyrighted scores can be found also on the site International Music Score Library Project / Petrucci Music Library (www.imslp.org). Scores and texts will be also made available on the KIRO platform within the limits allowed by law.
Course Language
Italian
More information
Modules A and B constitute a single course with a single final examination. It is possible to take the exams for each module separately as long as in consecutive sessions.
Students admitted to the 'inclusive education' program are requested to contact the professor as soon as possible to arrange for any additions.
Students admitted to the 'inclusive education' program are requested to contact the professor as soon as possible to arrange for any additions.
Degrees
Degrees
MUSICOLOGY
Bachelor’s Degree
3 years
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