89986 - Musicology, Philosophy, Aesthetics (LM)

Academic Year 2019/2020

  • Docente: Maurizio Giani
  • Credits: 12
  • SSD: L-ART/07
  • Language: Italian

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student: - knows at a general level the problems and challenges that music, in the course of its historical evolution and in the course of its encounters with other cultures, has set to western philosophical thought; - learns how to use some lexicon and some concepts specific to musicology, also through the reading of several relevant sources. On the basis of his readings, of the professor’s teaching and of common discussion, the student is able to recognize the historical (and therefore contingent and relative) nature of the acquired concepts and learns how to contextualize them.

Course contents

I Part

Major trends of music aesthetics in 19th & 20th century

II Part

Rereading Theodor W. Adorno's monograph on Gustav Mahler sixty years after its publication (and on the 50th anniversary of Adorno's death)

Readings/Bibliography

Carl Dahlhaus, L'estetica della musica, Roma, Astrolabio, 2009

Michela Garda, L'estetica musicale del Novecento. Tendenze e problemi, Roma, Carocci, 2007

Theodor W. Adorno, Mahler. Una fisiognomica musicale, nuova ed. a cura di Ernesto Napolitano, Torino, Einaudi, 2005

Teaching methods

Frontal lessons

Assessment methods

Oral exam

Teaching tools

CD and DVD player

Office hours

See the website of Maurizio Giani