- Docente: Nicoletta Guidobaldi
- Credits: 6
- SSD: L-ART/07
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Ravenna
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Corso:
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
HISTORY AND PRESERVATION OF THE ARTISTIC HERITAGE (cod. 0890)
Also valid for Campus of Bologna
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Music Disciplines (cod. 0967)
Learning outcomes
You will acquire the basic methodological principles of musical iconography and the basic skills needed to analyse and understand the main types of visual representation of a musical subject.
Course contents
Reading theimages of music : history, methods and perspectives of Musical Iconography.
The course will discuss the main interpretations and applications of musical iconography, with special attention given to the scholarly production from 1980 to the present day. It will include also aseminardevoted to the analysis and the interpretation of musical themes recurring in visual art from Antiquity to Early Modern Times.
Readings/Bibliography
- T. SEEBASS, article"Iconography, in The New Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, London, Mac Millan, 2001, pp.54-71;
- T. SEEBASS, Prospettive dell' iconografia musicale. Considerazioni di un medievalist, “Rivista Italiana di Musicologia”, XVIII (1983/1), pp.67-86;
- N. GUIDOBALDI, Prospettive dell'Iconografia musicale all'inizio del terzo millennio, in Prospettive di iconografia musicale, Milano, Mimesis, 2007, pp. 7-37.
E. PANOFSKY, Iconografia e iconologia. Introduzione alla storia dell'arte del Rinascimento, ne Il significato delle arti visive, Torino, Einaudi, 1962, pp.30-57;
R. KLEIN, Considerazioni sui fondamenti dell'Iconografia, ne La forma e l'intelligibile. Scritti sul Rinascimento e l'arte moderna, Torino, Einaudi Paperbacks, 1975, pp. 387-411.
E. WINTERNITZ, Gli strumenti musicali e il loro simbolismo nell'arte occidentale, Torino, Boringhieri, 1982;
F. CAMIZ-A. ZIINO, Caravaggio : aspetti musicali e committenza, “Studi musicali”, XII (1983), pp. 67-90.
N. GUIDOBALDI, I suoni ritrovati. La ripresa dei miti musicali nelle immagini del primo Rinascimento, “Musica e storia” VI (1998), pp. 167-192;
Further redings will be suggested during the lectures.
Teaching methods
Readings and seminars; the course will also include some cataloguing exercises and guided tours.
Assessment methods
Oral discussion.
Teaching tools
Slides Projector, PC, CD Player.
Office hours
See the website of Nicoletta Guidobaldi