- Credits: 5
- SSD: L-ART/07
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Cultural Operator / Expert in Education Sciences (cod. 0084)
Learning outcomes
Learning outcomes:
The word ”music” designates a multitude of intellectual, scientific and artistic phenomena in diverse historical, social, and cultural contexts; only with the utmost difficulty can it somehow be reduced to unity. Although musicology's roots as a science go back to ancient times, it has been an academic discipline since little more than a century (1885). It investigates the diverse nature and construction of the vast variety of “musical” manifestations, exploring its testimonies (documents and monuments), its functions and meanings, its educational implications.
The course aims at providing students with a notion (albeit summary) of how wide the concept of music is and how the disciplinary field of Musicology is structured.Course contents
What is music? What is musicology?
6 May – 5 June 2008; Dipartimento di Musica e Spettacolo, via Barberia 4, aula Leydi, Tuesday 17-19, Wednesday 12-14, Thursday 11-13
Readings/Bibliography
Recommended reading:
- C. Dahlhaus - H. H. Eggebrecht, Che cos'è la musica?, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1998 (Universale Paperbacks 224);
- L. Bianconi, La musica al plurale, in C'è musica e musica. Scuole e cultura musicale, ed. L. Zoffoli, Naples, TecnoDid, 2006, pp. 71‑76 (a photocopy will be available at Copisteria Harpo, via Barberia 9; and online: http://musicaclassica.biblio-net.com/artman/publish/news1620.shtml);
- P. Gozza, Il miele del musicologo e le rovine del mondo storico, in «Il Saggiatore musicale», XIII, 2007/1 (a photocopy will be available at Copisteria Harpo, via Barberia 9);
- G. La Face, L'educazione musicale, in «Riforma e Didattica tra Formazione e Ricerca», X, n. 4, Sept.-Oct. 2006, pp. 35-37 (a photocopy will be available at Copisteria Harpo, via Barberia 9);
- A. Ausoni, La musica, Milan, Electa, 2005.
Teaching methods
Teaching methods:
Lectures illustrated with a selection musical examples.
Two or more lessons will take place at the Museo della Musica, Strada Maggiore 34, on dates to be arranged at the beginning of the course in agreement with students.
Assessment methods
Assessment methods:
Oral discussion.
The discussion will be based on:
- Dahlhaus e Eggebrecht (at least four chapters to be chosen from the ten which constitute Che cos'è la musica? see Recommended Reading );
- the multitude of phenomena that come under the field of musicology, including musical education (see Recommended Reading: Bianconi; Gozza; La Face);
- the recognition and illustration of the explicit and implicit meaning of pictorial musical representations, as found in A. Ausoni, La musica (see Recommended Reading).