- Docente: Domenico Staiti
- Credits: 6
- SSD: L-ART/07
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Music and Theatre Studies (cod. 8837)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student: - knows the structure and history of musical instruments; - is able to evaluate the way musical instruments and musical languages determine each other and transform each other.
Course contents
Ethnographic approach to the history and structure of musical instruments; classification techniques
Readings/Bibliography
Erich von Hornbostel and Curt Sachs, "Sistematica degli strumenti musicali" (in appendix at Febo Guizzi, Gli strumenti della musica popolare in Italia, Lucca, LIM, 2012)
Nico Staiti, "Tenui meditabor harundine". Tiritera su titiri, totare, tituelle, calamauli e cerauli, Palermo, Museo delle marionette Antonio Pasqualino.
Teaching methods
Oral lessons
Assessment methods
Oral examination
Teaching tools
Images, films, listening, direct view of musical instruments brought by the teacher
Office hours
See the website of Domenico Staiti