HISTORY OF MUSIC PRODUCTION

It is intended to focus on the mechanisms of musical production systems, especially in the 19th and 20th centuries, in european theater and concert halls.

1. Knowledge and understanding: understand and be able to analyze critical and theoretical texts that deal with the history of musical production systems, know how to use the resources offered by computer platforms, with regard to audiovisual sources.
2. Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: to develop a critical conscience in relation to some essential works in the history of music.
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.

The student will have acquired basic knowledge on the functioning of theater and concert seasons and on the management systems of musical institutions, deepening aspects of artistic programming in relation to the subject dealt with in a specialized manner.

The student will have to acquire basic knowledge of the history of musical productive systems (see, among the reference texts, the essays in the History of Italian Opera, ed. by Lorenzo Bianconi and Giorgio Pestelli, part II: Opera Production and Its Resources, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1998)

Giacomo Puccini on the centenary of his death, 1924-2024: Puccini in the fin de siècle opera industry

Giacomo Puccini operates at the center of a magmatic network of interests that concern musical theater as the driving force of the economy in the fin de siècle, between Europe and the New World, but also in 'slavic' and Russian theaters in particular. We will study the complex production system that concerned him, as well as his main rival, Richard Strauss, in the context of the repertoire of the time, where Casa Ricordi and the great performers played an important role, from Arturo Toscanini to Gustav Mahler, as well as extraordinary singers worldwide success, like Enrico Caruso, in the then reference theaters, from La Scala to the Metropolitan, from the Opéra to Covent Garden etc.

Homepage: http://www-5.unipv.it/girardi/2024_SIST/SIST_2024.htm

Cenni sul teatro alla Scala, a cura della Commissione teatrale, 1881.
STEFANO BAIA CURIONI, Mercanti dell’opera. Storie di Casa Ricordi, Milano, il Saggiatore, 2011
IVANO CAVALLINI, Arturo Toscanini, in Il contributo italiano alla storia del pensiero. Musica, Roma, Istituto dell’enciclopedia italiana, © 2018, pp. 519-530.
MARCELLO CONATI, Teatri e orchestre al tempo di Verdi >, in Giuseppe Verdi. Vicende, problemi e mito di un artista del suo tempo, catalogo della mostra, Colorno, 1985, pp. 47-78
GIUSEPPE FRANCESE, Le Fondazioni lirico-sinfoniche, tesi di laurea in Diritto amministrativo, Urbino, a.a. 2006-2007, © 2009
The History of Italian Opera, Edited by Lorenzo Bianconi and Giorgio Pestelli, Part II: Systems, Opera Production and Its Resources, Chicago, Chicago University Press, 1998.
Teatro alla Scala. Cronologia di tutti gli spettacoli rappresentati in questo teatro dal giorno del solenne suo aprimento sino ad oggi, con introduzione e notazioni compilate da Luigi Romani, Milano, Pirola, 1862 >.
Notizie storiche e descrizione dell’I. R. Teatro della Scala corredata di tavole illustrative e di un prospetto delle dimensioni e capacità in confronto anche di alcuni de’ principali teatri d’Europa, coll’elenco de’ palchi di ragione privata, e de’ rispettivi proprietarj, Milano, Salvi, 1856 >.
JOHN ROSSELLI, Music and Musicians in Nineteenth-Century Italy, Cambridge University Press,1991 .
— «Sociology of Opera», Grove Music, 1992
HARVEY SACHS, Music in Fascist Italy, 1984

The updated bibliography can be read on the course page: http://www-5.unipv.it/girardi/2024_SIST/SIST_2024.htm

Oral examination: the verification will be carried out in an interview centered on the topics covered 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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