B024365 - MUSICOLOGY & HISTORY OF MUSIC WITH MUSIC TEACHING METHODOLOGY WORKSHOP

Italian

This course deals simultaneously with three main topics: 1. the history of music education in the Italian pre- and primary school from the Italian unification to the present day; 2. some elements of the musical experience, historically and culturally considered; 3. listening to musical works of the 18th and 19th centuries belonging to the canon of western classical music, aimed at providing basic structural and historical knowledge about the individual compositions and their genres.

Texts to be read for the preparation of the exam:

a) books:
Nicholas Cook, Musica. Una breve introduzione, Torino, EDT, 2005

Anna Scalfaro, Storia dell’educazione musicale nella scuola italiana. Dall’Unità ai giorni nostri, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2014 (pp. 15-95; 163-231)

Johannella Tafuri, L’educazione musicale. Teorie, metodi, pratiche, Torino, EDT, 1994

b) 2 musicological articles to be chosen among the followings:
Giuseppina La Face Bianconi, La didattica dell’ascolto, «Musica e Storia», XIV/3, 2006, pp. 511-541

Cesare Fertonani, La musica strumentale di Antonio Vivaldi, Firenze, Olschki, 1998 (pp. 89-143; 319-356)

Carla Cuomo, Il linguaggio della musica. Didattica dell’ascolto su un Minuetto di J.S. Bach, «Innovazione educativa», n. 3-4, marzo-aprile 2006, pp. 49-59
http://www.saggiatoremusicale.it/home/biblioteca-elettronica/testi-di-pedagogia-musicale/

Giorgio Pagannone-Silvia Cancedda, Disney spiega Bach: un percorso didattico sul Quinto concerto brandeburghese, «Musica Docta», IV, 2014, pp. 139-160
http://musicadocta.unibo.it/article/view/4610

Mario Carrozzo, Il duetto Violetta-Germont dall’atto II della Traviata, «Musica Domani», n. 142, marzo 2007, pp. 22-23
http://www.saggiatoremusicale.it/home/biblioteca-elettronica/testi-di-pedagogia-musicale/

Tavola rotonda sulla sinfonia “Incompiuta” di F. Schubert nella prospettiva della didattica dell’ascolto con interventi di Silvana Chiesa, Paolo Gallarati, Ferruccio Tammaro, «Musica e Storia», XIV/3, 2006, pp. 593-635

Non-attending students read also:
François Delalande, La musica è un gioco da bambini, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2004

Reference for musical terminology:
Breve lessico musicale, a cura di Fabrizio della Seta, Roma, Carocci, 2009

Acquiring knowledge on music as a cultural phenomenon of the present and within history

Providing basic structural and historical knowledge to understand musical compositions belonging to the canon of western classical music.

Fundamentals of learning of music-listening.

Objectives of the music didactics laboratory: 1. Acquiring practical knowledge on the basic properties of sound, the rhythm, the sound and the expressive qualities of the voice, the musical instruments; 2. dealing with the relationship between music and meaning by combining music with images and words within audiovisual productions.

Basic knowledge of the European history and of the Euoropean cultural history from the 17th to the 20th century.

Lecture; introduction to listening of musical compositions

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Exam (oral) with possibility of intermediate test (open-ended questions) on a part of the program.

This course deals simultaneously with three main topics: 1. the history of music education in the Italian pre- and primary school from the Italian unification to the present day. Linked to this point is a look at some 'historical' Italian and foreign methods of music didactics (Agazzi, Kodály, Orff, Willems, Dalcroze) up to a more recent approach, and critical toward the tradition, such as that based on the concept of 'musical awakening' (Delalande); 2. fundamentals of musical experience, functionally and historically considered, as: conceptions of music, musical forms and genres within the context of Europen cultural history, music and meaning, music a society, musical notations; 3. listening to musical works of the 18th and 19th centuries (by Vivaldi, Bach, Schubert, Berlioz, Verdi) belonging to the canon of western classical music, aimed at providing basic structural and historical knowledge about the individual compositions and their genres (concert, solo work keyboard, symphony, opera) and the fundamentals of the learning of music-listening.