MUSIC THEORY

Academic year
2023/2024 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
TEORIA MUSICALE
Course code
FT0325 (AF:444585 AR:250852)
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
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The course is part of the related/additional educational activities of the bachelor’s degree in Conservation of Cultural Heritage and Performings Arts Management (Performing Arts and Media Studies), but is also open to students from other educational paths (philosophy, foreign languages and cultures, literature, etc.). The course aims to provide students with the foundations of music theory to be able to independently deal with the reading and analysis of music pieces.
Attendance and active participation in the activities proposed by the course and individual study will allow students to acquire the following basic notions:

- rudiments of acoustics;
- musica notation and reading;
- elements of harmony and grammar of music;
- musical analysis;
- musicological vocabulary and music forms.
No pre-requisites required.
Sound and music notation: main characteristics of sound; notation; rhythm; tempo; ornaments; dynamic and expression markings.

Elements of harmony: tones and semitones; scales and tonalities; intervals; melody and harmony; chords and cadences; consonance and dissonance; modulations; through-bass.

Musical forms: motif, phrase, period; binary and ternary form; canon and fugue; suite and dances; sonata (genre and form); concerto; symphony.
- Ottó Károlyi, La grammatica della musica. La teoria, le forme e gli strumenti musicali, Torino, Einaudi, 2000 (or previous editions).
- Cosimo Caforio - Benedetto Passannanti, L’alfabeto dell’ascolto. Elementi di grammatica musicale, Roma, Carocci, 2014.
- Pietro Caraba - Carlo Pedini, Le forme della musica, Brugherio, Sinfonica, 2010 (or later editions).

Any materials provided on the Moodle page.
The exam will take place through an oral interview. The test will focus on the topics developed during the course. The correct use by the student of the specific musical vocabulary will also be evaluated. At the beginning of the exam, the student will have the opportunity to present a relation on a topic chosen among those discussed in class, subject to agreement with the teacher.
Frontal lessons, during which listening, analysis and commentary of music examples will be carried out.
Italian
Course attendance is strongly recommended.
It is suggested to study lesson by lesson regularly in order to progressively assimilate the vocabulary and concepts that will be used during the course.
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Definitive programme.
Last update of the programme: 29/06/2023