- Docente: Renzo Tosi
- Credits: 6
- SSD: L-FIL-LET/05
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Music Disciplines (cod. 0967)
Course contents
1) Music in Ancient Greek Tragedy; 2) Rudiments of history and theory of Greek and Roman music.
Lessons timetable: Wednesday, Thursday from 3
to 5 p.m., Friday from 11 a.m to 1 p.m. (sala Pasoli,
Dipartimento di Filologia Classica e Medioevale, Via Zamboni 32,
III floor).
Beginning of the course: February 4th 2009.
Readings/Bibliography
As for the rudiments of history of greek music and of the texts with musical notations one of the following texts is recommended: M.L.WEST, Ancient Greek Music, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1992; G.COMOTTI, La musica nella cultura greca e romana, vol.I della Storia della musica, a c. della Società Italiana di Musicologia, Torino, EDT, 1991. It is also required the reading of G.COMOTTI, La musica nella tragedia greca, in AA.VV., Scena e spettacolo nell'antichità, a c. di L.de Finis, Firenze, Olschki, 1989, pp.43-61, and of at least one in the following texts: AA.VV., La musica in Grecia, a c. di B.Gentili e R.Pretagostini, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1988; M.PATERLINI, Septem discrimina vocum: Orfeo e la musica delle sfere, Bologna, Patron, 1992; A.BELIS, Les Musiciens dans l'Antiquité, Paris 1999; A.DI GIGLIO, Strumenti delle Muse. Lineamenti di organologia greca, Bari, Levante, 2000.
Teaching methods
The lessons will be carried out as a seminar
Assessment methods
Oral examination
Teaching tools
Photocopies as well as audio-visual materials
Links to further information
Office hours
See the website of Renzo Tosi