MUSIC THEORY

Academic year
2022/2023 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
TEORIA MUSICALE
Course code
FT0325 (AF:376713 AR:208666)
Modality
On campus classes
ECTS credits
6
Degree level
Bachelor's Degree Programme
Educational sector code
L-ART/07
Period
1st Term
Course year
1
Moodle
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The course provides 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. The course consiste of 30 hours, organized in two weekly classes three hours long, each.
At the end of the course students will have familiarized with the following fields:

- Rudiments of acoustics.
- Music notation and reading.
- Elements of harmony.
- Music analysis (rudiments).
- Musicological vocabulary and music forms.
No pre-requisites required.
Attendance is strongly suggested, to students who have no musical education, and to performers as well.
Sound and music notation: main characteristics of sound, notation in historical perspective, tempo, meter 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.

Music forms: imitative forms, ricercare, suite and dances, sonata (as a genre and as a form), concerto, fugue.
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
Pietro Caraba, Carlo Pedini, Le forme della musica, Edizioni musicali Sinfonia Jazz, Brugherio 2010 (or other editions)
All materials presented on the moodle page are mandatory.
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. Assessment will consider the ability of the students to use the technical vocabulary.
Frontal lessons, with commentary and analysis of music examples. Written exercises.
Italian
Attendance to the course is highly recommended.
Regular practice and study of the singular topics will help creating pre-requisites for the following ones.
oral
Definitive programme.
Last update of the programme: 07/07/2022