28577 - Musical Archaeology (LM)

Learning outcomes

The course refers to the main events and questions related to musical cultures of the ancient world, particularly around the Mediterranean sea. The course will focus on the study of texts, images, musical instruments and other sound objects. Students will be able to analyze the main musical issues in texts, iconography and archaeological remains.

Course contents

The study of musical behaviours, contexts and sounds of the past has a long history, especially concerning ancient Greece, where the culture of mousike has always had a leading role in several aspects of life, both in social occasions of daily living and in religious ceremonies or mystery-rituals. Such a topic has recently been approached by new research methods, such as those of the so-called ‘Music Archaeology' (or ‘Archaeomusicology'), a cross-disciplinary discipline which combines the perspectives of both Musicology and Archaeology. This course aims at summarizing the status quaestionis of scholarly research activity in such a field and at providing some methodological and theoretical considerations on the different approaches that may be used within the discipline, according to the area of music archaeology, classical studies and musicology.

The course is divided in two parts (30 hours each): A and B. 

A) First part  (30 hours).

 Musical Archaeology: the strategy of the discipline, its history and bibliographical tools,  the typologies of sources; the transmission of musical knowledge; the concept of sound event; the most important bibliographical instruments. Introduction on current research projects between archaeology, classical studies, musicology, ethnomusicology and anthropology. To this purpose a number of methodological essays will be read and commented.

B) Second part  (30 hours).

I suoni della Luna: relazioni tra eventi sonori e pianeti nella trattatistica musicale dell'antichità greca e latina.  

Sounds of the Moon: relations between sound events and planets in the Greek and Latin music treatises.

Some element of the issue concerning the musica mundana, in particular the presence of relations between the musical theory, e.g.: the chords of the lyre, and the planets, Moon above all, will be explored in some musical treatises, as Nicomachus, Ptolemaeus, Aristides Quintilianus, Macrobius and Boethius.  Some images with musical diagrams from the manuscripts and early editions will be commented and analyzed as examples of different methods to be adopted in the study of the visual representations of music and its reception in Middle Age and Renaissance.

Students might have access to individual tutoring.

Times: I semester - First lesson: Monday, 6th  October  2012, 1 pm

Timetable: Monday, 13-15; Tuesday, 11-13; Wednesday, 12-14.

Lessons will be held at Facoltà di Conservazione dei Beni culturali, palazzo Corradini, via Mariani, 5 - Room 2 - Ravenna,  – tel.: 0544 936911 http://www.cbc.unibo.it/Beni+Culturali/default.htm

 

Readings/Bibliography

Italian students which will not attend to the lessons will be required two manuals and at least one methodological essay, choosen from the first part of the bibliography (A), and at least two readings, from the second part (B). An email to the Professor will be welcome. The methological writings could be downloaded from Alma-DL.

Foreign students which will not attend to the lessons will be required to keep in contact with the Professor by email, phone call, office appointment, etc., to chose the examination texts three month before the exams.

First part: A

Manuals

D. Castaldo, Musiche dell'Italia antica. Introduzione all'archeologia musicale, Bologna, Ante Quem, 2012.

D. Restani, L'eredità musicale del Mondo antico, in Musica e società, I, ed. by P. Fabbri and M. C. Bertieri, Napoli, Mc Graw Hill, 2012, pp. 229-297.

Musica, in  La Grande Storia: L'Antichità, Grecia, 8, a cura di U. Eco, Encyclomedia - Corriere della Sera, 2011, pp. 360-543; Roma, 13, pp. 278-383.

M.L. West, La musica greca antica (1992), trad. it., Milella, Lecce, 2007.

Grecia. Atti del convegno Mittelfest 2001. Inaugurazione. Cividale del Friuli 20 luglio 2001, Mittelfest in coproduzione con la Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Trieste 2002.

G. Comotti, La musica nella cultura greca e romana, Torino, EdT, 1991.

Methodological papers

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

D. Restani, Presentazione a Il sapere musicale e i suoi contesti: da Teofrasto a Claudio Tolemeo, a cura di D. Castaldo, D. Restani, C. Tassi, Ravenna, Longo, 2009, pp. 5-7.

D. Restani, Per un'etnomusicologia storica del mondo antico, in Etnomusicologia storica del mondo antico. Per Roberto Leydi, a cura di D. Restani , Ravenna, Longo, 2006, pp. 3-6.

B. Nettl, Some Questions on the Relationship of Music Archaeology and Ethnomusicology: Informal Comments on Constructing the Past from the Present , in Studien zur Musikarchäologie IV , hrsg. von E. Hickmann – R. Eichmann, Rahden, Marie Leidorf GmbH, 2004, pp. 117-123.

S. Psaroudakes, Archaeomusicology and Ethnomusicology in Dialogue, «Eulimene», IV, 2003, pp. 189-200.

F.A. Gallo, Historia civilis e Cultural Heritage, «Il Saggiatore musicale», VIII, 2001, pp. 15-20.

L. Godart, Il nome dell'aedo nella Grecia dell'età del bronzo, «Rendiconti dell'Accademia nazionale dei Lincei. Classe di Scienze morali, storiche e filologiche», s. 9, 12, 2001, pp. 5-10.

E. Hickmann, s.v. «Archaeomusicology», in Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, I, 2001, pp. 848-854.

A. Buckley, Music Archaeology. Its Contribution to “Cultural” Musicology and “Historical” Ethnomusicology , in Studies in Socio-Musical Sciences , edd. J. Braun - V. Shavit, Bar-Ilan University Press, 1998, pp. 109-115.

F.A. Gallo, Musica e storia nel Medioevo, «Musica e Storia», I, 1993, pp. 23-28.

 Antropologia della musica e ricerca storica, interventi di F.A. Gallo, I. Fenlon, R. Leydi,  A. Serravezza, F. Lissarrague, in Antropologia della musica e culture mediterranee, a cura di T. Magrini, Bologna, il Mulino-Fondazione Ugo e Olga Levi, 1993 (Quaderni di «Musica e Storia», 1).

F.A. Gallo, Introduzione a Musica e Storia tra Medio Evo e Età moderna, Bologna, il Mulino, 1986, pp. 9-28.

Second part: B

Critical essays and collection of papers

The musician's grave, "Greek and Roman Musical Studies", 1, 2013, pp. 7-171: E. Poehlmann, A. A. Alexopolou and A-A. Kaminari, E. Simon and I. Wehgartner, M. West, S. Psaroudakes, C. Terzes, S. Hagel ( http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/22129758/1/1).

Per una storia dei popoli senza note, a cura di P. Dessì, Bologna, Clueb, 2010, pp. 7-10, 13-28, 133-144:  papers by F. A. Gallo, M.C. Fariselli, A. Bellia, D. Castaldo.

"Itineraria", VI, 2007,  papers by S. Pittaluga, A.C. Fariselli, D. Castaldo, D. Restani, M. Martin, L. Mauro, C. Fossati, A. Scafi, I. Fenlon, A. Arcangeli, F. A. Gallo, F. Luisi, F. Pizzimenti.

"Musica e Storia", IX/2, 2001, pp. 377-529,  papers by D. Restani, F. Lissarrague, C. Jacob, D. van Mal-Maeder, A. Iacovella, M. Perani, F.A. Gallo, S. Pittaluga, I. Fenlon.

D. Restani, Paola Dessì and Daniela Castaldo, Eventi sonori in età augustea, «Ocnus. Quaderni della Scuola di Specializzazione in Beni Archeologici», 18, 2010, pp. 159-176.

M. C. Martinelli (ed. by), La Musa dimenticata. Aspetti dell'esperienza musicale greca in età ellenistica, Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, 2009.

D. Restani (ed. by), Etnomusicologia storica del mondo antico. Per Roberto Leydi, Ravenna, Longo, 2006.

A. Barker, Psicomusicologia nella Grecia antica, ed. by A. Meriani, Napoli, Guida 2005.

S.D. Bundrick, Music and Image in Classical Athens, Cambridge, 2005.

D. Restani, Musica per governare, Ravenna, Longo, 2004.

A. Barker, Euterpe. Ricerche sulla musica greca e romana, ed. by F. Perusino and E. Rocconi, Pisa, ETS, 2002.

D. Castaldo, Il pantheon musicale. Iconografia nella ceramica attica tra VI e IV secolo, Ravenna, Longo, 2000.

D. Restani (ed. by), Musica e mito nella Grecia antica, Bologna, il Mulino, 1995.

Teaching methods

Reading and analyses of texts and images. Guided visits to archaelogical collections and temporary exhibitions related to the discipline.

Assessment methods

The examination will be oral. Both the first and the second part will be considered in the exam. The students which attended the lessons are welcome to introduce their individual research. The examination will consider: first, the different methodologies and the different kinds of sources. Second, the ability of presenting different issues, the critical horizon and the autonomy in the study and in the research.

Teaching tools

Didactic tools have been prepared for the First part (A) of this course: consult them. Audiovisuals, pc, listening will be used during the lessons. Individual tutoring may be provided for students attending the lessons. Guided visits to archaelogical collections and temporary exhibitions related to the discipline.

Links to further information

http://www.moisasociety.org

Office hours

See the website of Donatella Restani