- Docente: Maurizio Giani
- Credits: 6
- SSD: L-ART/07
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
Music and Theatre Studies (cod. 8837)
Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Music and Theatre Studies (cod. 8837)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student would acquire:
- a good knowledge regarding the main topics and problems in the history of musical aesthetics;
- the capability of contextualizing and critically reading the basic text of the discipline, regarding terminology, arguments, and the major cultural trends of the corresponding historical periods.
Course contents
I module
Themes and problems of musical aesthetics in XIX and XX century.
II Module
Musical interpretation and its logic: Analysis and aesthetic judgement.Readings/Bibliography
I module
Carl Dahlhaus, L'estetica della musica, Roma, Astrolabio, 2009
Michela Garda, L'estetica musicale del Novecento. Tendenze e problemi, Roma, Carocci, 2007
II Module
Maurizio Giani, Una lunga fedeltà. Karajan interprete di Brahms, in Alberto Fassone (ed.), Herbert von Karajan, Lucca, LIM, 2018 (forthcoming)
Jürg Stenzl, In Search of a History of Musical Interpretation, «The Musical Quarterly», LXXIX, n. 4, 1995, pp. 683-699
Leon Botstein, Musings on the History of Musical Interpretation, «The Musical Quarterly», LXXXIII, n. 1, 1999, pp. 1-5
Janet M. Levy, The Power of the Performer: Interpreting Beethoven, «The Journal of Musicology», Vol. 18, No. 1 (Winter 2001), pp. 31-55
Teaching methods
Frontal lesson.
Assessment methods
Oral exam.
Teaching tools
CD and DVD player.
Office hours
See the website of Maurizio Giani