MUSICAL DRAMATURGY

The course falls between the related and integrative teaching of the contemporary curriculum of the Master's Degree in "History of Arts and Conservation of Artistic Heritage", with the aim of dealing with research topics in the field of musical dramaturgy, using a methodology strongly characterized by interdisciplinarity, a characteristic demand from musical theater, a real semiological monstrum. The student should be able to develop a critical conscience on the concept of dramaturgy, immanent to different declinations (theater of speech, lyric opera and so on), and at the same time to find a real relationship with a musical repertoire made not only of history, but also of a precise relationship with contemporary artistic crafts (concertation, direction, set design).

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

At the end of the course the student will have improved his knowledge of the European musical theater, thanks to the exemplary case in question, and attended a critical methodology appropriate to the peculiarities of the work in music, placed in its historical context.

The exam will focus on the subject actually carried out in the module, at the end of which the exam program and the reference bibliography will be specified. For the general arrangement see Michele Girardi, 1880-1950 Opera e Teatro musicale, per Enciclopedia Treccani, unpd.The text in PDF can be downloaded from the course page.

Musical dramaturgies in the boil: Germany, Austria, Hungary, Italy, France, 1905-1926

Seven masterpieces by German (Richard Strauss), Austrian (Arnold Schönberg and Alban Berg), Hungarian (Béla Bartók), Italian (Giacomo Puccini), French (Maurice Ravel) and Czech (Leoš Janáček) composers will be analyzed: Salome (1905) Erwartung (1909-1924), A kékszakállú herceg vára (1911-1918), Wozzeck (1922-1925), Turandot (1924-1926), L’enfant et les sortilèges (1925), Věc Makropulos (1925-1926). The main objective of the course is to grasp and matrices of a national style in a context where the authors aim to create a scenic language that is as shared as possible, respecting their respective traditions, sometimes building them almost ex novo (Bartók, Janáček) or reformulating their traits, sometimes in a radical way (Schönberg, Berg), never remaining strangers in general to a renewal movement (Strauss, Puccini, Ravel).

For any updates please refer to the course online page: https://www.unive.it/data/insegnamento/444277/programma

LORENZO BIANCONI, GIORGIO PAGANNONE, Piccolo glossario di drammaturgia musicale, da Insegnare il melodramma, ed. by Giorgio Pagannone, Pensa Multimedia, Lecce-Iseo, 2010.

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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