- Docente: Renzo Tosi
- Credits: 6
- SSD: L-FIL-LET/05
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Music Disciplines (cod. 0967)
Learning outcomes
The aim of this course is to know if it is possible to understand the ancient musical feeling. The student has to acquire good knowledge of ancient music, expecially of its importance for Greek literature.
Course contents
1) Music in Ancient Greek Tragedy; 2) Rudiments of history and theory of Greek and Roman music.
Lessons timetable:Wednesday from3 to5 p.m.,
Thursday from 3 to 5 p.m.,Friday from 11 a.m to 1 p.m.(sala
Pasoli, Dipartimento di Filologia Classica e Medioevale, Aula
mansarda, Via Zamboni 32, III floor). Lessons will begin at 20th
March.
Readings/Bibliography
As for the rudiments of history of greek music and of the texts with musical notations one of the following texts is recommended: M.L.WEST, Ancient Greek Music, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1992; G.COMOTTI, La musica nella cultura greca e romana, vol.I della Storia della musica, a c. della Società Italiana di Musicologia, Torino, EDT, 1991. It is also required the reading of G.COMOTTI, La musica nella tragedia greca, in AA.VV., Scena e spettacolo nell'antichità, a c. di L.de Finis, Firenze, Olschki, 1989, pp.43-61, and ofat least onein the following texts: AA.VV., La musica in Grecia, a c. di B.Gentili e R.Pretagostini, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1988; M.PATERLINI, Septem discrimina vocum: Orfeo e la musica delle sfere, Bologna, Patron, 1992; A.BELIS, Les Musiciens dans l'Antiquité, Paris 1999; A.DI GIGLIO, Strumenti delle Muse. Lineamenti di organologia greca, Bari, Levante, 2000; Gli strumenti a percussione nella Grecia antica, Firenze, Le Cariti, 2009. .
Teaching methods
The lessons will be carried out as a seminar
Assessment methods
Oral examination
Teaching tools
Photocopies as well as audio-visual materials
Links to further information
Office hours
See the website of Renzo Tosi