- Docente: Nicoletta Guidobaldi
- Credits: 12
- SSD: L-ART/07
- Language: Italian
- Moduli: Nicoletta Guidobaldi (Modulo 1) Nicoletta Guidobaldi (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially) (Modulo 1); In-person learning (entirely or partially) (Modulo 2)
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Music Disciplines (cod. 0967)
Course contents
The course will be organized in two main sections :
1.First section (6 CFU) :
This section will deal with the main interpretations and application of musical iconographyand will specifically focus on the scholarly research from 1980 onwards.
This section will also include also aseminardevoted to the analysis and the interpretation of musical themes recurring in visual art from Antiquity to Early Modern Times.
2. Second section (6 CFU): Visible and Invisible Harmonies in the Renaissance Musical Representations
This section will deal with the different meanings of musical themes and figures represented within the main iconographic themes during the Renaissance, with aspecial attentionto the articulated traditions of the "concert" scenes.A number of selectedmusical representationswill be analized, to show howthe understanding ofthe musical "contents" might help to focus both musical taste andculturalorientationsof themilieu withinwhich the musical images werecreated.
Readings/Bibliography
1. - T. SEEBASS, articleIconography, 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.
2. N. GUIDOBALDI, Idee sulla musica nell'Iconografia del primo Rinascimento,"Musica e Storia" XV/1, 2007, pp.343-359.
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 bibliographic references will be provided 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
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