ID:
510269
Duration (hours):
36
CFU:
6
SSD:
MUSICOLOGIA E STORIA DELLA MUSICA
Located in:
CREMONA
Year:
2025
Overview
Date/time interval
Primo Semestre (29/09/2025 - 23/01/2026)
Syllabus
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, students will
- know the epistemological issues involved in the analysis of medieval and renaissance repertoires and musical genres;
- be familiar with the musicological debates that have developed in this area;
- be able to critically evaluate past and present analyses of these repertoires and genres;
- be able to ask analytical questions relevant to the different repertoires and genres, and to set up and carry out appropriate analyses.
- know the epistemological issues involved in the analysis of medieval and renaissance repertoires and musical genres;
- be familiar with the musicological debates that have developed in this area;
- be able to critically evaluate past and present analyses of these repertoires and genres;
- be able to ask analytical questions relevant to the different repertoires and genres, and to set up and carry out appropriate analyses.
Course Prerequisites
Ability to follow a musical performance on the score and to read music in modern and ancient clefs. Knowledge of counterpoint and modality. Knowledge of the music history of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
Teaching Methods
Lectures; individual and group reading and commenting on analytical essays suggested by the teacher; analytical workshops and seminars on selected pieces of music.
Assessment Methods
The final examination consists of (1) a written commentary on an author's analysis or the student's own analysis, agreed in advance with the teacher and submitted in writing at least 10 days before the oral examination, and (2) an oral examination in which the student discusses the essay referred to in (1) and demonstrates that he/she has understood the topics covered during the course and has sufficient knowledge of the bibliography.
Texts
- C.V. PALISCA, “Ut oratoria musica”: The Rhetorical Basis of Musical Mannerism, 1972, ripubblicato in ID., Studies in the History of Italian Music and Music Theory, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1994, pp. 282-311.
- D. LEECH-WILKINSON, Machaut’s ‘Rose, Lis’ and the Problem of Early Music Analysis, “Music Analysis” 3, 1984, pp. 9-28.
- Models of Musical Analysys. Music before 1600, ed. by M. Everist, Oxford, Blackwell, 1992.
- T. CHRISTENSEN, Music Theory and Its Histories, in Music Theory and the Exploration of the Past, ed. by C. Hatch and D. W. Bernstein, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1993, pp. 9-39.
- D. SABAINO, Per un’analisi delle strutture compositive nella musica di Francesco Landini: il caso della ballata “Contemplar le gran cose” (31), in “Col dolce suon che da te piove”. Studi su Francesco Landini e la musica del suo tempo. In memoria di Nino Pirrotta, a cura di A. Delfino e M.T Rosa Barezzani, Firenze, Sismel – Edizioni del Galluzzo, 1999, pp. 259–321.
- D SABAINO, Funzioni proemiali del primo sonetto del Canzoniere petrarchesco nella Selva Morale e Spirituale di Claudio Monteverdi, in Intorno a Monteverdi, a cura di M. Caraci Vela e R. Tibaldi, Lucca, Libreria Musicale Italiana, 1999, pp. 101-123.
- J. MILSOM, Analysing Josquin, in The Josquin Companion, ed. by R. Sherr, Oxford Oxford, University Press, 2000, pp. 431-484.
- M. BENT, La grammatica della musica antica: presupposti per l’analisi, “Rivista di Analisi e di Teoria Musicale”, 10/1, 2004, pp. 41-93.
- D. SABAINO, La modalità come strumento esegetico: Zarlino, Lasso, Ingegneri e il responsorio “Si bona suscepimus”, “Musicalia” 10, 2013 [ma 2021], pp. 1-56.
Further bibliographical reading will be provided during the lectures.
- D. LEECH-WILKINSON, Machaut’s ‘Rose, Lis’ and the Problem of Early Music Analysis, “Music Analysis” 3, 1984, pp. 9-28.
- Models of Musical Analysys. Music before 1600, ed. by M. Everist, Oxford, Blackwell, 1992.
- T. CHRISTENSEN, Music Theory and Its Histories, in Music Theory and the Exploration of the Past, ed. by C. Hatch and D. W. Bernstein, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1993, pp. 9-39.
- D. SABAINO, Per un’analisi delle strutture compositive nella musica di Francesco Landini: il caso della ballata “Contemplar le gran cose” (31), in “Col dolce suon che da te piove”. Studi su Francesco Landini e la musica del suo tempo. In memoria di Nino Pirrotta, a cura di A. Delfino e M.T Rosa Barezzani, Firenze, Sismel – Edizioni del Galluzzo, 1999, pp. 259–321.
- D SABAINO, Funzioni proemiali del primo sonetto del Canzoniere petrarchesco nella Selva Morale e Spirituale di Claudio Monteverdi, in Intorno a Monteverdi, a cura di M. Caraci Vela e R. Tibaldi, Lucca, Libreria Musicale Italiana, 1999, pp. 101-123.
- J. MILSOM, Analysing Josquin, in The Josquin Companion, ed. by R. Sherr, Oxford Oxford, University Press, 2000, pp. 431-484.
- M. BENT, La grammatica della musica antica: presupposti per l’analisi, “Rivista di Analisi e di Teoria Musicale”, 10/1, 2004, pp. 41-93.
- D. SABAINO, La modalità come strumento esegetico: Zarlino, Lasso, Ingegneri e il responsorio “Si bona suscepimus”, “Musicalia” 10, 2013 [ma 2021], pp. 1-56.
Further bibliographical reading will be provided during the lectures.
Contents
General methodological introduction to the problems posed by medieval and Renaissance music as an object of analysis;
Survey of historical trends in the analysis of medieval and Renaissance musical repertoires and genres:
Reading and discussion of analyses by various authors as case studies of particular analytical perspectives;
Analysis of selected pieces of music and related seminar discussion.
Survey of historical trends in the analysis of medieval and Renaissance musical repertoires and genres:
Reading and discussion of analyses by various authors as case studies of particular analytical perspectives;
Analysis of selected pieces of music and related seminar discussion.
Course Language
Italian
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Students who fall into one of the categories defined by the University and who wish to benefit from the planned inclusive teaching methods are also invited to contact the teacher directly and in good time. In any case, the learning assessment procedures are the same as for regular students.
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