At the end of the course the student will know the different notations with which the medieval polyphonic repertoire has been transmitted from the twelfth up to the first decades of the fifteenth century, and will be aware of the main historical-critical issues that such notations raise and of the philological and performative issues involved in their interpretation / translation into modern notation.
Course Prerequisites
General nowledge of the history of medieval music, modality and counterpoint. General notions of musical philology.
Teaching Methods
Lectures about the main historical, codicological and philological questions of the examined notations; exercises of transcription into modern notations.
Assessment Methods
Written transcription from the notations discussed during the course; oral interview to verify the knowledge of the bibliography and the topics analysed during the course.
Texts
• W. APEL, La notazione della musica polifonica dal X al XVII secolo, trad. it. a cura di P. Neonato, Firenze, Sansoni, 1984, pp. 235-451. • Les Clausulae a deux voix du Manuscrit de Florence, Biblioteca Mediceo-Laurenziana, Pluteus 29.1, pub. par R. A. Baltzer, Paris, L’Oiseau-Lyre, 1995 (“Le Magnus Liber Organi de Notre-Dame de Paris”, 5). • Musica e poesia nel Trecento italiano. Verso una nuova edizione critica dell’«Ars Nova», a cura di A. Calvia e M. S. Lannutti, Firenze, SISMEL – Edizioni del Galluzzo – Fondazione Franceschini, 2015. Further readings will be suggested during the course (please refer to the e-learning platform Kiro).
Contents
The course is mainly devoted to the repertoire of the clausulae of the Gothic polyphony and to the notation of the different genres of secular fourteenth-century polyphony.
Course Language
Italian
More information
Students unable to attend classes are invited to contact the teacher as soon as possible to arrange indivual additions to the program.
