B8688 - Analysis of Music Creation Processes (1) (LM)

Learning outcomes

The course aims to provide students with some basic tools for understanding and knowing how to analyse the characteristics and uses of the main forms of organisation of musical discourse in some important periods of European musical history, which, crystallised in schemes derived ex post, have long provided dialectical material for the composition and processes of musical creation. At the end of the module, the student is also oriented on the historical-aesthetic perspectives of the concept of musical form.

Course contents

Creativity and artistic creation in music: the language of forms

During the lessons the concepts of “creativity” and “artistic creation” in music will be explored in a historical perspective.

In particular, some musical creative processes that have been consolidated over time in the construction of long-lasting compositional and formal models will be analysed.

Listening, improvisation, compositional and performing practices are some of the aspects that will be studied through the reading of some scores considered particularly significant and representative.

Readings/Bibliography

In the course of the lectures, articles and essays from the following volumes will be explored:

• Creatività e creazione artistica nella musica e nelle arti, ed. byi Marco Bizzarini and Enrico Careri, Naples, fedOA Press, 2024 (online in open access)
• Stuart Isacoff, Musical revolutions. How the sounds of the western world changed, New York, Knopf, 2022
  
• Charles Rosen, Sonata forms, New York, Norton, 1988
  
• Alfred Mann, Teoria e pratica della composizione. I grandi compositori come maestri e come allievi, ed. by Giorgio Sanguinetti, Rome, Astrolabio, 2013
• Musical performance: a guide to understanding, ed. by John Rink, Cambrdige, Cambridge University Press, 2012
  
• Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht, Comprendere attraverso l’analisi, «Il Saggiatore musicale», 4, 1997, pp. 373-384
• Clemens Kühn, Il linguaggio delle forme nella musica occidentale, Milan, Unicopli, 1987

Bibliographic updates will be provided close to the start of the course.

Teaching methods

Lectures with listening and analysis of scores.

Assessment methods

At the examination (oral interview), students must demonstrate their knowledge of the bibliography indicated.

Students with DSA or temporary or permanent disabilities: it is advisable to get in touch immediately with the University office responsible [ttps://site.unibo.it/studenti-con-disabililita-e-dsa/it] and with the lecturer in order to seek together the most effective strategies for following the lessons and/or preparing for the exam.

Teaching tools

Side activities and meetings will be announced during the course. Various teaching materials will be made available online.

Handouts and materials used in the course of the lectures will gradually be made available in the online teaching resources on Virtuale.

Office hours

See the website of Nicola Badolato