ID:
501295
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 in the nineteenth 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.
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 second module alternates lectures with short seminar interventions prepared by the students under the guidance and supervision of the teacher.
Assessment Methods
The exam consists of an oral interview. It will be based: 1) for attending students (who have attended at least 4/5 of the lessons) on the discussion of the work done in class and on the commentary on the materials handed out in class; 2) for non-attending students on the recommended bibliography and on the commentary on the materials handed out in class. Any papers that may be required must be submitted at least one week before the oral interview.
Texts
a. Attending students (at least 2/3 of the lessons)
The student must demonstrate knowledge of what was discussed during the monograph based on the directions given in class. He/she should also demonstrate knowledge of the history of 19th-century music based on:
1) M. CARROZZO - C. CIMAGALLI, Storia della musica occidentale, vol. 3, Roma, Armando, 1998 (chapters 32-38);
b. Not-attending students
The student must demonstrate knowledge of the topic chosen for the monograph, based on one of the two books cited below:
1) Lewis Lockwood, Beethoven's Lives - The Biographical Tradition, Boydell Press, Woodbridge 2020.
2) Federica Rovelli, Oltre i limiti. Le Sonate dall’op. 90 all’op. 111, vol. 5 della serie: Le Sonate per pianoforte di Beethoven (Repertori Musicali, storia, analisi, interpretazione 7.5), LIM, Lucca 2024.
It should also demonstrate knowledge of the history of 19th-century music, based on:
2) M. CARROZZO - C. CIMAGALLI, Storia della musica occidentale, vol. 3, Roma, Armando, 1998 (chapters 32-38);
Reading suggestion (for everyone):
– Storia della musica a cura della 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 what was discussed during the monograph based on the directions given in class. He/she should also demonstrate knowledge of the history of 19th-century music based on:
1) M. CARROZZO - C. CIMAGALLI, Storia della musica occidentale, vol. 3, Roma, Armando, 1998 (chapters 32-38);
b. Not-attending students
The student must demonstrate knowledge of the topic chosen for the monograph, based on one of the two books cited below:
1) Lewis Lockwood, Beethoven's Lives - The Biographical Tradition, Boydell Press, Woodbridge 2020.
2) Federica Rovelli, Oltre i limiti. Le Sonate dall’op. 90 all’op. 111, vol. 5 della serie: Le Sonate per pianoforte di Beethoven (Repertori Musicali, storia, analisi, interpretazione 7.5), LIM, Lucca 2024.
It should also demonstrate knowledge of the history of 19th-century music, based on:
2) M. CARROZZO - C. CIMAGALLI, Storia della musica occidentale, vol. 3, Roma, Armando, 1998 (chapters 32-38);
Reading suggestion (for everyone):
– Storia della musica a cura della 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
Module B, unlike Module A, will take a totally monographic approach and focus on one of the most famous composers of the era of interest to the entire course: Beethoven. In addition to being one of the best-known composers in the history of European music, the Bonn composer has become a privileged object of study in musicology from the very beginning. His is thus an exceptional case study for those who wish to deal as much with biographical as with more technical questions (pertinent for example to analysis, philology and reception history). The study of his biography, the context in which he worked and the compositions he produced will thus provide an opportunity to discuss also the problems of methodological approach faced by music historiography in general.
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.
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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