MUSIC THEORY

Academic year
2019/2020 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
TEORIA MUSICALE
Course code
FT0325 (AF:283005 AR:169270)
Modality
On campus classes
ECTS credits
6
Degree level
Bachelor's Degree Programme
Educational sector code
L-ART/07
Period
1st Term
Course year
2
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The course aims at providing basic skills for the study, contextualization and understanding of cultured Western music, with main reference to the Classic period. It will provide skills that are essential in the professional figure of the graduate in Conservation and Management of Arts and Cultural Heritage. Students coming from other educational paths are welcome to follow the course.
Rudiments od acoustics.
Music notation and reading.
Elements of music theory.
Music analysis.
Musicological lexicon and music forms.
No pre-requisites required.
Sound and music notation: main characteristics of sound, modern notation, time, metro and rhythm; ornaments; dynamics and expression markings.

Elements of harmony and counterpoint: equal temperament; scales and tonalities; intervals; consonance and dissonance; melody and harmony; chords and chord progressions; modulations; thoroughbass.

Musical forms.
Ottó Károlyj, Introducing music, Penguin Books, London-New York 1965 (or other editions)
C. Caforio, B. Passannanti, L’alfabeto dell’ascolto, Elementi di grammatica musicale, Carocci, Roma 2014
Fabrizio Della Seta (ed.), Breve lessico musicale, Carocci, Roma 2009
Fabrizio Della Seta (ed.), Le parole del teatro musicale, Carocci, Roma 2010

On more text among those suggested during the course.
Oral conversation on the topics of the course. To start the exam, the student will present a relation on a topic chosen among those suggested in class. The student will be able to download the list of references during the course.
Frontal lessons, with music examples. Written exercises.
Italian
Attendance to the course is highly route to those who have not developed music practical skills. Regular learning of the singular topics will help creating pre-requisites for the following ones.
oral
Definitive programme.
Last update of the programme: 11/08/2019