ETHNOMUSICOLOGY

Given the different backgrounds of the students, the course will begin with a survey on terms, concepts and tools of the ethnomusicological and anthropological research intended for those who are not familiar with such a research and who didn't attended to the course "Fundamentals in Ethnomusicology".

After this general introduction, this year's monographic course is devoted to After this general introduction, this year's monographic course is devoted to the relationship between music and those particular phenomena known as 'Altered States of Consciousness' (SAC), a term that translates from the English 'Altered States of Consciousness' (ASC), recently corrected to: 'Modified States of Consciousness'.
In particular, according to Alan P. Merriam and J.J. Nattiez, music is present in the activation of particular states of consciousness because it conditions the function of the physical response, interferes with the body's basic functions, with the heartbeat, with breathing, with muscular performance. It establishes, then, a Time that is 'other' because it is subject to other parameters (rhythm, metre) that are not those of usual, measured, timed time. This 'other' Time can contribute to inducing in the participant a temporal and sometimes spatial disorientation that encourages going outside oneself. And it should be noted that music, defined by John Blacking as 'humanly organised sound', is universally present in any 'Rite' developed in different spiritual traditions that have arisen on the planet.
This course will examine and compare some particular cases of musical and choreographic rituals that have arisen on the planet, from East to West, from antiquity to the present.

According to the framework for the European Higher Education, the so called Dublin descriptors, the expected results are:
1. Knowledge and Understanding
a) To know the basic terms and concepts of the discipline and to understand the texts that use such terms and concepts.
b) To understand the peculiarities of Ethnomusicological research.

2. Ability to apply knowledge and understanding
a) Being capable of a simple analysis of some given musical examples, being aware of the singles musical languages and cultures.
b) Ability to connect a musical tune with its cultural framework.

3. Judgement's ability
a) Being capable to formulate and to argument simples hypothesis.

4. Communications Skills
a) Being able to communicate the peculiarities of the Transcultural Musicology approach to music, using an appropriate terminology.

5. Learning Ability
● Being able to take notes and to share them in a collaborative form.
● Being able to consult to consult the texts critically and the Bibliography immanent.

No particular prerequisites are required but open-mindedness, curiosity and attention.

After a general introduction, this year's monographic course is devoted to the relationship between music and Modified States of Consciousness by isolating some case studies from different traditions, from East to West, from past to present.

1) Gilbert ROUGET, Musica e trance. I rapporti fra la musica e i fenomeni di possessione, nuova edizione, Torino, Einaudi, 2019. (Ed. or: La musique et la transe. Esquisse d’une théorie générale des relations de la musique et de la possession, Paris, Gallimard, 1980).
2) Giovanni DE ZORZI, samā'. L'ascolto e il concerto spirituale nella tradizione sufi, Milano, Jouvence, 2021.
3) Giovanni DE ZORZI, “Tra sciamani e bakhshı, tra l’estatica e l’estetica” in AAVV, Il cosmo sciamanico. Ontologie indigene fra Asia e Americhe, a cura di Stefano Beggiora, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2019: 34-49.

Oral exam. Welcome personal deepening on specific genres or authors previously agreed with the professor.

Lessons with musical listenings, visual examples and musical scores.

Italian

Before starting a course I order the necessary texts for the course in BAUM; obviously, being exam papers, these are not available for loan.
You can also find the texts for the exam in Venetian and national bookstores, online, or in the many Venetian libraries.

oral

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Human capital, health, education" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development