87596 - Introduction to the Study of Music II

Learning outcomes

The educational aims of teaching are the transmission of musical knowledge as a fundamental part of the history of culture and the enhancement of the ethical and social functions connected to it. At the end of the course, the student is able to use a plurality of texts and materials (textbook, historical-epistemological critical texts, books / popular texts, websites, etc.) for teaching purposes; he/she is able to build teaching units, in particular connected with the listening. The student acquired the traditional and innovative methodologies for teaching music history at secondary school level; he/she is fully aware of the methodological perspectives that allow us to contextualize the main musical forms and practices in the history of human culture.

Course contents

The course is accessible to students who already have a base of musical knowledge and who have already followed at least one other musicological teaching. It is aimed at those who wish to deepen their knowledge also with a view to the possible teaching of musicological subjects in schools of all levels (provides 6 of the 24 CFU for teaching).

The educational purposes of the teaching concern the enhancement of the ethical, social and cultural function of listening and performing music through an anthropological approach (emotions, human relationships, etc.) centered on situations in which music becomes an occasion for human promotion and individual and social redemption.

The teaching objective of the course consists of learning the necessary knowledge for a music education embedded in cultural history.

Foreign students are required to contact the professor at least one month before the exams, writing to: donatella.restani@unibo.it

The course is divided into three parts.

In the first part, it addresses the different positions on the need to propose a renewal in the methods of teaching History of Music.

In the second part, the topic of "The Words of Music" will be developed, delving into some elements of musical knowledge and musical genres from the 14th to the 20th century not covered by Introduction to Music I.

In the third seminar part, problems and issues related to music, interculture and global musical cultures from Antiquity to the present day will be addressed. One case study will deal with the French ballet Les Indes galantes di J.-Ph. Rameau.

Readings/Bibliography

All course materials will be available on the Virtuale platform, where one will also find specific exam preparation methods for attending and non-attending students.

First part

M. Bent, Il mestiere del musicologo, in Enciclopedia della musica, II, Torino, Einaudi, 2002, pp. 575-590;

P. Vendrix, Concezioni diverse della storia musicale, in Enciclopedia della musica, II, Torino, Einaudi, 2002, pp. 591-610;

S. Facci, Multiculturalismo nell'educazione musicale, in Enciclopedia della musica, II, Torino, Einaudi, 2002, pp. 863-879;

G. La Face Bianconi e L. Bianconi, Il mandato intellettuale dei musicologi nella costruzione della cittadinanza europea, "Il Saggiatore musicale", "Musica docta", 2013, pp. 1-5;

G. Giuriati, Per una didattica delle musiche del mondo: strumenti critici e risorse, "Musica docta", 2020, pp. 145-157.

Second part

F. Della Seta, Breve lessico musicale, Roma, Carocci, 2014 (2nd ed.).

Third part

 F. A. Gallo, Premessa, in P. Dessì (a cura di), Per una storia dei popoli senza note, Bologna, Clueb, 2010, pp. 7-10.

Catherine Gallouët, Transformation de l’autre exotique dans Les Indes galantes de Rameau et Fuzelier (1736), ou comment l’autre se construit sur la scène, "Le Monde français du dix-huitième siècle", 5, 2020 (online, DOI : https://doi.org/10.5206/mfds-ecfw.v5i1.10548)

The bibliography of the manuals to be consulted will be indicated during the lectures and subsequently published among the teaching materials on the Virtuale platform.

For non-attending students, it is suggested to integrate the previous programme by reading two articles from the volume: Music in Schools from the Middle Ages to the Modern Age, ed. by P. Dessì, Turnhout, Brepols, 2021, whose index is given below:

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction. Docere and discere: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Music in Schools — PAOLA DESSÌ

At School for Governance: Paolino da Venezia and Music — F. ALBERTO GALLO

I. STUDIUM

La musica nel curriculum delle artes delle università italiane nel Quattrocento: fra teoria e prassi— PAOLO ROSSO

Transmission and Adaption of Musical Knowledge in 16th-Century German Universities: Professors, Students, and their Books — INGA MAI GROOTE

The Musical Training of University Students in the 16th Century and the libri amicorum — PAOLA DESSÌ

II. MAGISTRI, ALUMNI ET SCHOLARES

Music between scientia and ars in Giacomo Zabarella — LETTERIO MAURO

Musica tra le pareti domestiche a Padova nei secoli XV e XVI: dagli ensemble di docenti universitari ai singoli strumenti di studenti e commercianti — ELDA MARTELLOZZO FORIN

Ascolti comparati tra l’Alexandreis di Quilichino e la Trecentesca Istoria di Alessandro Magno di Domenico Scolari — DONATELLA RESTANI

III. SCHOLA

Music Teaching in Montagnana: Organization, Methods, and Repertories — ALESSANDRA IGNESTI

Canto piano e strategie pedagogiche in Adrien Bourdoise — XAVIER BISARO †

Don Paolo Galliero e la scuola di grammatica e musica di Tribano (Padova) — DILVA PRINCIVALLI

IV. WORKSHOPS AND ACADEMIES

“Si dilettò in giovanezza della scherma e di sonare il liuto”. Painters-Musicians in Giorgio Vasari’s Lives — ALESSANDRA PATTANARO

“La musica è diletta al cavallo”. Musical Paradigms in Equestrian Academies of the Renaissance — GAVINA CHERCHI

Teaching methods

Audiovisuals, pc, films and, among all, listening will be used during the lessons.

The teaching includes both conferences and seminar teaching with focus groups, as well as individual exercises that will be the subject of the first part of the assessment for learning.

 

Students who, for reasons dependent on disabilities or specific learning disorders (DSA), need compensatory tools may inform the teacher of their needs so that they can be referred to the contact persons and agree on the adoption of the most appropriate measures.

Service for students with disabilities and SLD 

Assessment methods

The exam consists of an oral interview on both teaching modules. For attending students it will be introduced by the exposition of their individual exercise.

The assessment will primarily concern:

- the description of the music in its technical and historical-cultural elements;

- secondly, the ability to critically orientate oneself on the manuals in use;

- lastly and above all, the ability to build an educational path will be assessed, using a plurality of texts and materials (textbook, texts of historical-epistemological criticism, books / popular texts, websites, etc.) and making use of the possibilities of relational impact typical of listening to music.

The final evaluation will follow the following indications:

- insufficient: lack of basic knowledge and incorrect or misleading interpretation of the topics;

- sufficient: basic knowledge; mainly correct interpretation but carried out with terminological imprecision and little autonomy.

- good: intermediate level knowledge; fully correct interpretation, but not always precise and autonomous.

- excellent grade: high level knowledge; interpretation of problems not only correct but conducted with autonomy and precision. Excellent oral expression skills.

Teaching tools

PC with video projector, sound reproduction instruments, video tools.

Students with DSA have the possibility to contact the professor for the activation of adequate support tools provided for the exam, writing to: donatella.restani@unibo.it

Students who, for reasons dependent on disabilities or specific learning disorders (DSA), need compensatory tools may inform the teacher of their needs so that they can be referred to the contact persons and agree on the adoption of the most appropriate measures.

Service for students with disabilities and SLD 

Students can take 2 more CFU attending the DIDACTIC LABORATORY “MUSICAL EXPERIENCES IN TRAVELOGUES”.

Lecturer in charge of science: prof. Donatella Restani,

Lecturer in charge of operations: PhD candidate Alessia Zangrando (PhD 37th cycle).

Planned dates:

9, 15, 22 April, 20 May 2024

Timetable:
2-4 p.m.

Learning outcomes: The didactic laboratory proposes to look at travel literature as a source for the study of music between ancient and modern times in order to gather new data for the study of communities that have no written musical tradition and are considered “distant” in a geographical, chronological or cultural sense; or without a written musical tradition. The aim is to valorise the material and immaterial aspects of these types of sources.

Programme: reflection on the need to look at a still little-known musical heritage with an interdisciplinary approach through the analysis of manuscripts, iconographic representations and musical notation. Students will also be encouraged to consider the problems related to the musical terminology used in the travelogues and the classification of the reported sound experiences. Finally, an Excel file will be populated with the collected data, which will feed into a relational database.

Max number of students: 15, including 7 for the LM-5.

How to access: send an email to donatella.restani@unibo.it and in cc to alessia.zangrando2@unibo.it

Venue: in-presence and online.

Essential Bibliography:

S. Emerit, S. Perrot, A. Vincent, Le paysage sonore de l’Antiquité. Méthodologie, historiographie et perspectives, Actes de la journée d’études tenue à l’Ecole française de Rome, le 7 janvier 2013, Châtillon, Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale, 2015.

F. A. Gallo, Introduzione, in: Musica e Storia dal Medio Evo all'Età moderna, Bologna, il Mulino, 1985, pp. 9-29.

F. A. Gallo, Premessa, in P. Dessì (a cura di), Per una storia dei popoli senza note, Bologna, Clueb, 2010, pp. 7-10.

N. Guidobaldi, D. Restani, Paesaggi con eventi sonori: dall’Antichità al Grand Tour. Introduzione a due voci, in Patrimonio culturale condiviso: viaggiatori prima e dopo il Grand Tour, Napoli, Associazione culturale viaggiatori, Dipartimento di Beni Culturali, Università degli Studi di Bologna, 2019, 2019, pp. 331 – 337.

D. Restani, A Note, in «Itineraria», 2017, 16, pp. 7-11.

Links to further information

https://www.digitalconcerthall.com/en/home

Office hours

See the website of Donatella Restani