28513 - Organ Musical Studies (1) (LM)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student:

Knows the structure and the history of musical instruments;

Is able to evaluate how instruments and musical languages determine each other and reciprocally transform themselves.

Course contents

Ethnographic approach to the history and structure of the musical instruments; techniques of classification.

Readings/Bibliography

André Schaeffner, Origine degli strumenti musicali (Palermo, Sellerio, 1978)

Erich von Hornbostel e Curt Sachs, "Sistematica degli strumenti musicali" (in appendice a Febo Guizzi, Gli strumenti della musica popolare in Italia, Luca, LIM, 2012)

Teaching methods

Lectures with audiovisual media.

Assessment methods

The final examination consists of an oral interview. Students will be evaluated considering the skills acquired and their critical capabilities.

Students may take the final examination on any of the scheduled date or, upon reservation one week before, at the teacher's office.

It will be assessed as excellent the performance of those students achieving an organic vision of the course contents, the use of a proper specific language, originality of reflection and familiarity with the organological tools. It will be assessed as discrete the performance of those students showing mostly mechanical or mnemonic knowledge of the subject, disarticulated synthesis and analysis capabilities, or a correct but not always appropriate language, as well as a scholastic study of organology. It will be assessed as barely sufficient the performance of those students showing learning gaps, inappropriate language, lack of knowledge of the instruments of organology. It will be assessed as insufficient the performance of those students showing learning gaps, inappropriate language, no orientation within the recommended bibliography and inability to classificate well the musical instruments following the Hornbostel-Sachs.

Teaching tools

Images, videos, listening, direct visualization of musical instruments brought by the Professor

Office hours

See the website of Domenico Staiti