99031 - History of Sacred Music (1) (LM)

Learning outcomes

After completing the course, students are able to research and critically examine specialized bibliography and documentary sources on the history of sacred music, in order to conduct autonomous investigations. They are able to communicate in written and oral form the knowledge they have acquired, using communication methods appropriate to the above contexts and taking into account their udience.They are able to give form to the results of their research in the History of Sacred Music properly documenting the information on which they base their conclusions, while giving an account of the methodologies of investigation used. They know how to apply the tools of communication and digital data in the editorial and publishing field.

Course contents

At the end of teaching students are able to move on specific surveys and projects related to the following skills: approach to the historical-critical functions, also in relation to the liturgical-aestetich factors and the repertoire; deepening of the study on the features of listening and musical understanding, between liturgy, mysticism and popular religiosity, with reference to stylistic differences in sacred music; monographic approach on Gregorian chant and its events up to today’s transeversalities.

Teaching is divided in two main parts: a part on the general features of sacred music and historical-cultural and liturgical contexts of reference, and a preparatory section on the linguistic-structural and stylistic elements of sacred music, also through a theoretical-practical educational paths.

Readings/Bibliography

Musica ed esperienza religiosa, a cura di M. Casadei Turroni Monti e C. Ruini, Milano, Angeli, 2017

E. Cardine, "Vue d’ensemble” sul canto gregoriano, «Studi gregoriani», 5, 1989, pp. 5-37

C. Ruini, Antiphonaria, Gradualia et psalteria quae ad divinas laudes… Un ruolo per il manoscritto, in Musica e liturgia nella Riforma Tridentina, a cura di D. Curti e M. Gozzi, Trento, Provincia autonoma – Servizio Beni librari e archivistici, 1995, pp. 31-38

F. Körndle, La musica sacra del Sei e Settecento nelle tradizioni cattolica e luterana, in Enciclopedia della musica, vol. IV, Torino, Einaudi, 2002, pp. 552-568

M. Casadei Turroni Monti, La musica sacra come luogo di trasmissione della fede, in Cristiani d’Italia. Chiese, società, stato, 1861-2011, vol. I, a cura di A. Melloni, Roma, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 2011, pp. 597-610

D. Sabaino, La definizione del concetto di ‘musica liturgica’ nel dibattito post-conciliare, in Atti del Congresso internazionale di musica sacra in occasione del centenario di fondazione del PIMS (Roma, 26 maggio – 1 giugno 2011), vol. I, a cura di A. Addamiano e F. Luisi, Città del Vaticano, LEV, 2013, pp. 87-106

A. Melloni, Il canto liturgico nella periferia della Chiesa italiana: problemi e casi di studio postconciliari, «Musica e storia», XIII/3, 2005, pp. 471-488

P. Gronow, Sacred music and the recording industry: a historical overview, in Fonti della musica sacra: testi e incisioni discografiche, a cura di A. Argentini e L. L. De Nardo, Lucca, LIM, 2011, pp. 11-21

Non-attending students should also study three chapters to choice of the following book:

L. Garbini, Breve storia della musica sacra. Dal canto sinagogale a Stockhausen, Milano, Il Saggiatore, 2005

Will also be proposed the theatrical text of M. Casadei Turroni Monti Filippo Neri, il buffone di Dio (in press), accompanied by a musical path (from Gregorian chant to Arvo Pärt) with which we will compare in class for an educational-representative approach to the history of sacred music

Teaching methods

The educational activities will take place through lessons in presence. Course attendance is not compulsory, but strongly recommended to all students, both for the specificity of the musical subject, both for the presence of informative-laboratory sections.

Assessment methods

Students who attend at least 75% of the lessons are considered to be attending. The verification of the Educational objectives is carried out through an oral examination, which lasts 30 minutes. The evaluation criteria are based on the relevance of the answers, above all for correctness of argument, and for the terminological adequacy and application skills of the acquired knowledge.

Teaching tools

Primary sources, auditory sources, lecture notes.

Office hours

See the website of Mauro Casadei Turroni Monti