HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE MUSIC

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2018/2019

Type of Course:

Characterising

Optional/Mandatory:

Compulsory

Degree:

Master's Degree Programme in ITALIAN LITERATURE, MODERN PHILOLOGY AND CULTURAL PRODUCTIONS

Disciplinary Sector:

Musicology and Music History

Language:

Italian

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

MELE Giampaolo

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

Basic knowledge of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance is required.
N.B. Knowledge of music is not absolutely mandatory.

AF code:

40001375

Assessment Methods

Verification of learning:

Face to face.

Teaching period

First semester

Objectives

Ability to recognize the main phenomena of the history of medieval and renaissance music in mutual interrelations with society and culture. In particular, the relationship between music and poetry and more generally melody - literary text, in the context of Mediterranean and European traditions, with particular reference to forms such as “song”, “motet”, “madrigal”, “ballad”, “canso”, “chanson”.

Contents

Main movements and authors of medieval and renaissance music, especially in relation to the literary text and the European artistic movements (innodia, Gregorian chant, tropes, sequences, troubadours, troveri, ars nova in France and Italy, polyphonic generations beyond the past, birth of the press musical, birth of melodrama).

Recommended Bibliography

Institutional part:

Paolo Fabbri e Maria Chiara Bertieri, Musica e società - Volume 1- Dall’Alto Medioevo al 1640, McGraw Hill, 2012.

The parts to be explored will be indicated in class.

Non-attending students must add:

Giampaolo Mele, I Giullari. Musica e mestieri nel Medio Evo (secoli XI-XIV). Cenni storici, in Arte y vida cotidiana en la época medieval, Zaragoza, XII Curso de la Cátedra «Goya», 24-28 de abril de 2007, Coordinadora: María del Carmen Lacarra Ducay, Zaragoza, Institución «Fernando el Católico» - C.S.I.C., 2008, pp. 89-131.

Attending students must take 12 compulsory pieces to the exam. Another 8 pieces must be agreed with the teacher.

Non-attending students must take 12 compulsory pieces to the exam. Another 12 pieces must be agreed with the teacher.
The list of links with the songs will be provided during the lessons. At the end of the course the links will be available on the website of the Department.

During the lessons will be shown additional sites regarding concerts and bibliographic materials for personal insights.

Teaching Methods

Lectures

Contacts/More Information

Readiness to offer individual assistance also in a foreign language to incoming students. Language: hispanish.

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Course year: 2

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GERMAN LANGUAGE
6 credits - Caratterizzante
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6 credits - Caratterizzante
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