ID:
501458
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, organized in two modules, aims to introduce the knowledge of the history of western musicfrom the 9th to the beginning of the 17th century and to provide the main tools for understanding repertoires,sources and forms of music in the main areas of Medieval and Renaissance society and culture. At the end of the course, students should be able to recognize the different styles, genres and forms of theeras studied on the basis of the analysis of their peculiar traits. They should also be able to orient themselvesin the production of the main composers on the basis of the most recent scientific acquisitions.
Course Prerequisites
Good knowledge of the European historical and cultural background from late antiquity to the end of the 16th century in its essential lines. Good knowledge of music language. It would be best to have passed the examination of "Counterpoint and Harmony 1".
Teaching Methods
The course is organized in lectures, held with the help of PowerPoint presentations; training aids will be made available to students on the KIRO teaching platform. The lectures include general parts and in-depth analysises, devote to exemplary compositions. The course is supported by specific tutoring (Introduction to Western musical repertoires).
Assessment Methods
Oral exam, which focuses on the acquired skills, in particular, the knowledge of forms, musical genres and authors from the 14th to the 16th century, and the ability to place music in the historical and cultural context.Specific attention will be given to the skill to explain scores examined during the lessons, using an appropriate technical language, demonstrating to know the context of production and fruition, as well as the skill to be able to identify the composition by the listening of the performance.
Texts
For attending students (who have attended on-campus at least 2/3 of lessons, i.e. 24 hours) At the end of the course, a detailed list of topics discussed and of scores analyzed in the lessons will be provided (see “Allegati 1, 2”); attachments are useful for the exam preparation. The scores are uploaded on “Kiro”, at http://elearning1.unipv.it/musicologia/ (sign in using your university credentials) The following book is required to be studied: • A. CALVIA – F. SAGGIO, Nelle corti e nei castelli. Musica tra Medioevo e Rinascimento, Lucca, LIM,2025 (capp. 10-21, pp. 45-95) The topics of the lessons must be integrated with the following text: • F.R. ROSSI, La musica rinascimentale. Storia, teorie, analisi, Lucca, LIM, 2019, solo capp. 2-7, (pp. 17-138), capp. 10-11 (pp. 179-221), capp. 13-14 (pp. 243-291) For definitions of technical terms, you can check: • Breve lessico musicale, a cura di F. Della Seta e del Dottorato di ricerca in Musicologia dell’Università di Pavia, Roma, Carocci, 2009. Non-attending students (i.e. students that don’t attend lessons in presence, or that attend less than 2/3 of lessons) who are asked to contact the teacher in time, have to study the following texts (selected pages from three textbooks): • A. CALVIA – F. SAGGIO, Nelle corti e nei castelli. Musica tra Medioevo e Rinascimento, Lucca, LIM,2025 (capp. 10-21, pp. 45-95) • F.R. ROSSI, La musica rinascimentale. Storia, teorie, analisi, Lucca, LIM, 2019 • Musica e società. Volume 1, a cura di P. Fabbri e M.C. Bertieri, Milano ecc., McGraw-Hill, 2012, solo cap.IV (pp. 125-177), cap. V (pp. 179-227), cap. VII, pp. (229-321; 333-341). Non attending students must know the scores (analysis and contextualization) listed in the "Allegato 3" and available on Kiro. All students are required to know by listening to the compositions listed in "Allegato 2" (only red titles, for attending students) and “Allegato 3” (for non attending students) published on Kiro.
Contents
MODULE B: The Renaissance Music Texts, authors and the contexts of European music between 1378 and 1610. First part: Music in the age of the “Great Schism”. The Ars Subtilior. Musical manuscripts and mensural notation.Music in the Italian early fifteenth century. The English school. The birth of polyphonic mass on Tenor. Guillame Du Fay. The Burgundian chanson. Instrumental music. Mass and motet in the second half of fifteenth century. Josquin Des Prez. Music and humanism in Italy. Second part: The musical prints of O. Petrucci and A. Antico. Forms of frottola repertoire. The early madrigal. The Parisian chanson. The madrigal at Venice and Rome. Mass and motet in the sixteenth century. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and Orlando di Lasso. Ferrara and stylistic innovation of madrigal in the late sixteenth century. The accompanied monody. Claudio Monteverdi.
Course Language
Italian
More information
IMPORTANT NOTE To be considered “attending students” is necessary attending-on class at least 2/3 of lessons (i.e. 24 hours). The History of Music 1 can be separated into two parts corresponding to the two modules (according to the chronological sequence of course) but must necessarily be completed in the maximum of two consecutive exam sessions without exception and regardless of any internal articulations of the individual modules. MODULE B The examination of module B can be taken only after passing the module A. It is possible to divide the exam of module B into two parts, corresponding to the two segments of which the course is constituted (see Program and contents); however, the full exam of History of Music 1 must be passed within two consecutive sessions, regardless of how the student may have shared out the different parts. INCLUSIVE TEACHING Students authorized to benefit from inclusive teaching must contact the teacher, who through an individual interview will identify the most suitable teaching material according to the relevant categories, as proposed by the Academic Senate.
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