- 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 the musical aesthetics in XIX and XX century.
II module
Wagner's Dramaturgy in Theory and Practice.
Students interested to the 6 cfu course should study only the bibliography for the I module (see below).
In order to follow properly the II module program, a good preliminary knowledge of Wagner's main output is strongly recommended.
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, La sublime illusione. Sul teatro musicale di Richard Wagner, Salerno-Napoli, Orthotes, 2017Teaching methods
Frontal lesson.
Assessment methods
Oral exam.
Teaching tools
CD and DVD player.
Office hours
See the website of Maurizio Giani