75872 - History of the Music Book

Learning outcomes

The course introduces to the knowledge of  musical book during the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Times, dealing with questions related both to its material feature and to its social function and cultural values.

At the end of the readings, the student should be able to identify and to contextualize the main typologies of musical manuscript and printed books.

Course contents

The course will be structured in two main sections.

1. Introduction to the material, social and cultural history of the musical book, illustrated through exemples of medieval manuscripts up to the early stages of musical prints.

 

2. A special focus will be devoted to the study of French and Italian polyphonic manuscripts, with a special attention to the peculiar social and symbolic value attributed to  Guillaume de Machault’s RemÃÆ'¨de de Fortune and to the Florentine Squarcialupi Codex.

 

 

The course will also include seminar sessions and guided tours to musical Archives in Ravenna and to the Museo Internazionale e Biblioteca della Musica in Bologna.

 

Readings/Bibliography

- Il libro di musica. Per una storia materiale delle fonti musicali in Europa, Carlo Fiore ed., Palermo, Epos, 2004;

 

- E. PASQUINI, Libri di musica a Firenze nel Tre – Quattrocento, Firenze, Olschki, 2000;

 

- F. A. GALLO, Trascrizione di Machault, Ravenna, Longo, 1999;

 

- Codice Squarcialupi Ms. Med. Pal. 87 Biblioteca Mediceo Laurenziana, facsimile edition by F. A. Gallo, Lucca, Libreria Musicale Italiana, 1993.

 

More bibliographic informations will be given during the lectures. 

 

Teaching methods

Readings and seminars; the course will also include some cataloguing exercises and guided tours.

The course will be held on the second semester, starting from Tuesday, March 24th.

Assessment methods

Oral discussion.

Teaching tools

PC, slide projector, CD Player.

Office hours

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