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. 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.

Alban Berg.

In the context of the so-called 'Second Vienna School', where Anton Webern, the other pupil of Arnold Schönberg, embodied avant-garde rigor, Alban Berg was the composer most gifted with a lyrical vein, profuse largely in his vocal and instrumental works , so much so that it earned the nickname 'Puccini of dodecaphony'. In this course we will study life and works, with targeted listening, and the social and artistic context in which a musical experimentation with extraordinary results arose and flourished.
For the historical framework, the candidate may consult the.Storia della musica di Mario Baroni Enrico Fubini Paolo Petazzi Piero Santi Gianfranco Vinay, Torino, Einaudi, 1988: L’epoca delle avanguardie storiche, pp. 416-482.

Homepage: http://www-5.unipv.it/girardi/2023_SMMC/SMMC_2023.htm

Bibliografia
OTTÒ KÀROLYI, La grammatica della musica [Introducing Music, 1965], Torino, Einaudi, 2000.
ALBAN BERG, Suite lirica. Scritti musicali e letterari, a cura di Anna Maria Morazzoni, prefazione e revisione di Michele Girardi, Milano, Il Saggiatore, 2020
MICHELE GIRARDI, Composizioni vocali e strumentali di Alban Berg, in Berg, a cura di Claudio Del Monte e Vincenzo Segreto, Parma, step, 1989, pp. 261-385.
VOLKER SCHIERLISS, Berg, [Alban Berg in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumente, 1975], Fiesole (FI), Discanto, 1975

Oral examination: nterview on the topics covered in the course, also verifying the knowledge of the historical context.

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 illustrated. 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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