HISTORY OF MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY MUSIC

The course aims to introduce attending students to the topical moments in the history of modern and contemporary music.

The student will acquire basic notions on the history of modern and contemporary music, both formal and historical; the composers and their works will be placed in the artistic context of the time.

The student is informed about the main events of the XVII-XX centuries, through the chronologies that will be found on the course page. The student is informed about the main events of the XVII-XX centuries, through the chronologies that will be found on the course page. Read in the volume indicated in the bibliography the items dedicated to the symphonies of the authors mentioned in the course program. For the general arrangement see The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Music, ed. by Jim Samson, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001 («The Cambridge History of Music»), passim.

The symphony is on stage!

Beethoven’s symphonic work is a clear watershed in the genre: thanks to him the form gains an increasingly marked ‘stage’ dimension. In the module we will study some symphonies of the greatest composers of the nineteenth century, in particular of Franz Schubert, Hector Berlioz, Felix Mendelssoh, Robert Schumann, Anton Bruckner, Johannes Brahms, Pëtr Il’ič Čajkovskij, Antonín Dvořák, up to Gustav Mahler. The individual pieces will be indicated in the first lessons.

Homepage: http://www-5.unipv.it/girardi/2020_STMMC/STMMC _2020.htm
Exam Program: http://www-5.unipv.it/girardi/2020_SMMC/SMMC_esame_2020.htm :

Giacomo Manzoni, Guida all’ascolto della musica sinfonica, Milano, Feltrinelli, 1973.
The Cambridge Companion to the Symphony, ed by Julian Horton, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2013

Oral examinatione: interview on the topics discussed in the course

Lectures, with the help of all the tools of computer science, to propose material in video, diagrams, read and discuss on-line bibliography, musical examples also on the piano.

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During the first lesson the articulation of the course will be illustrated. Presence is recommended.

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