MUSIC FOR CINEMA

The course forms part of the three-year degree in Conservation of Cultural Heritage and Performing Arts Management, which provides essential tools for operators in the fields of preservation and promotion of artistic heritage.
The course aims to provide students with an accurate studying on an increasingly central aspect in the most recent historiography and theory of cinema: the role of music and of the sound inside the film.

- knowledge of the main outlines of the evolution of music in audiovisuals;
- knowledge of the various problems inherent to the creation of the soundtrack;
- knowledge of how to analyse the soundtrack of a film, in all its components, and in general the functions of music in audiovisuals;

The student should know the basics of film history and preferably have a basic knowledge of musical grammar.

The course provides an introduction to the language of soundtrack from early silent films to video clips. It will address the various problems inherent to the realisation of musical comment such as composed and adapted music, use of leitmotifs, motivic and thematic presences, phenomenology of noise, etc. In addition to historical-critical knowledge, students will be offered a set of analytical tools enabling them to analyse some audiovisual texts.

- Roberto Calabretto, Lo schermo sonoro. Venezia, Marsilio, 2010
- llario Meandri, Luca Cossettini, Cristina Ghirardini, Alessandro Molinari, Archivi sonori del cinema: Progetto ICSA Italian Cinema Sound Archives.
https://www.fondazionelevi.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/LEVI-ICSA-17x24-2.pdf
- Angelina Zhivova, La musica nel cinema di animazione sovietico, Fondazione Ugo e Olga Levi, Venezia, 2023.
https://www.fondazionelevi.it/editoria/la-musica-nel-cinema-di-animazione-sovietico/

Additional Texts:
- James Buhler, David Neumeyer, Hearing the movies.music and sound in film history, Oxford University press, 2016.

Additional bibliography will be provided during the course

The final test is given orally and includes a brief audiovisual analysis of the films discussed during the course as well as questions based on the proposed bibliography.
Non-attending students must agree with the professor an alternative program.

The course consists of frontal lectures with the support of projections and listening sessions related to the course topics.

Italian

oral

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "International cooperation" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development