MUSICAL DRAMATURGY

The course falls between the related and integrative teaching of the contemporary curriculum of the Master's Degree in "History of Arts and Conservation of Artistic Heritage", with the aim of dealing with research topics in the field of musical dramaturgy, using a methodology strongly characterized by interdisciplinarity, a characteristic demand from musical theater, a real semiological monstrum. The student should be able to develop a critical conscience on the concept of dramaturgy, immanent to different declinations (theater of speech, lyric opera and so on), and at the same time to find a real relationship with a musical repertoire made not only of history, but also of a precise relationship with contemporary artistic crafts (concertation, direction, set design).

1. Knowledge and understanding: understand and be able to analyze critical and theoretical texts that deal with musical dramaturgy, know how to use the resources offered by computer platforms, with regard to audiovisual sources.
2. Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: develop a critical conscience in relation to some essential works of musical theater.
3. Ability to judge: ability to formulate conscious exegesis, in relation to the social history of the arts and to politics.
4. Communication skills: reaching an advanced domain of public communication, in close dialogue with one's colleagues and interacting with the teacher, knowing how to exploit the many possibilities that the research offers modern means of communication.
5. Learning skills: knowing how to handle critical texts and bibliographies.

At the end of the course the student will have improved his knowledge of the European musical theater, thanks to the exemplary case in question, and attended a critical methodology appropriate to the peculiarities of the work in music, placed in its historical context.

Those attending the course must have read at least the Introduction to Musical dramaturgy, edited by Lorenzo Bianconi (Bologna, il Mulino, 1986, pp. 7-51). It would also be preferable for the student to become familiar with the subject by attending the History course of musical theater at the TARS.

The musical theater of Expressionism

We intend to briefly define the characteristics of musical Expressionism, through the dramatic and cultural analysis of three milestones of the Schönberg and Berg theater, Erwartung, Wozzeck, Lulu. Being an avant-garde, the movement involves the other arts, mainly, but not only, the figurative one. The bibliography will be specified in the exam program.

Homepage: http://www-5.unipv.it/girardi/2021_DM/DM_2021.htm
Exam Program:

Anthony Arblaster, Viva la libertà. Politics in Opera, London-New York, Verso, 1992.
Lorenzo Bianconi, Introduzione a La drammaturgia musicale, a cura di Lorenzo Bianconi, Bologna, il Mulino, 1986, pp. 7-51.
Lorenzo Bianconi, Giorgio Pagannone, Piccolo glossario di drammaturgia musicale, da Insegnare il melodramma, a cura di Giorgio Pagannone, Pensa Multimedia, Lecce-Iseo, 2010
Michele Girardi, Boris Godunov» tra rivoluzione e pessimismo verdiano, «Studi pucciniani» 2, 2000, pp. 69-89
— Verdi e la rivoluzione: «I Vespri siciliani», in I Vespri siciliani di Verdi, Torino, Teatro Regio, 2011, pp. 17-30.
Intolleranza 1960, a cura di Angela I. De Benedictis, Venezia, Marsilio, 2011.
John Rosselli, Politica, religione e opera, prolusione al convegno Tosca nel terzo millennio (Lucca, maggio 2000), «Studi pucciniani» 2, 2000, pp. 9-20, rist. «La Fenice prima dell’Opera» 2008/4, pp. 25-35.

Oral examination: 5 CFU 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.

Italian

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

Ca ’Foscari applies Italian law (Law 17/1999; Law 170/2010) for the support and accommodation services available to students with disabilities or specific learning disabilities. If you have a motor, visual, hearing or other disability (Law 17/1999) or a specific learning disorder (Law 170/2010) and you require support (classroom assistance, technological aids for carrying out exams or exams individualized, accessible format material, note retrieval, specialist tutoring to support the study, interpreters or other) contact the Disability and DSA office disita@unive.it.

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