MUSIC FOR CINEMA

Academic year
2024/2025 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
MUSICA PER FILM
Course code
FT0555 (AF:512622 AR:290359)
Modality
On campus classes
ECTS credits
6
Degree level
Bachelor's Degree Programme
Educational sector code
L-ART/07
Period
3rd Term
Course year
1
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.
bibliography will follow
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 "Human capital, health, education" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development

Definitive programme.
Last update of the programme: 06/03/2024