STORIA DELLA MUSICA E DELLE ARTI VISIVE

The course focuses on the relationship between music and visual arts through an interdisciplinary approach to some paradigmatic musical works that presuppose a relationship with the visual arts in their historical-aesthetic context of production and use.

At the end of the course, the student acquires the tools to understand historical dynamics and learn to observe the intersections between different languages from a perspective that favors the contents of culture and human productions.

Lectures and listening workshop.

The course consists of two different modules.

The first (La Bibbia all’Opera - 3 CFU) explores the relationship between music and visual arts between Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries through a study of the musical works whose subject is figures of the biblical tradition.

The second (Music and Figurative Art in fin de siècle Vienna - 3 CFU) will be devoted to Viennese fin-de-siecle Culture and to the role of the Visual Arts in the development of a new conception of Musical Art.

A. La Bibbia all’Opera (3 CFU)

Texts:

- S. Tcharos, Opera’s Orbit. Musical Drama and the Influence of Opera in Arcadian Rome, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2011, pp. 20-96.

- F. Piperno, La Bibbia all’Opera. Drammi sacri in Italia dal tardo Settecento al ‘Nabucco’, Roma, Neoclassica, 2018, pp. 265.

- C. Lucas Fiorato, Giuditta o la politica delle ombre. Sulla fruizione figurativo-letteraria del Liber Iudith nel Rinascimento, in Giuditta e altre eroine bibliche tra Rinascimento e Barocco. Orizzonti di senso e di genere, variazioni, riscritture, a cura di L. Borsetto, Padova, Padova University Press, 2011, pp. 35-62.

- N. Dubowy, Le ‘due’ Giuditte di Alessandro Scarlatti: due diverse concezioni dell’oratorio, in L’oratorio musicale italiano e i suoi contesti, a cura di P. Besutti, Firenze, Olschki, 2002, pp. 258-288.

- M. De Luca, 1716 in tempore belli. Il confronto fra Oriente e Occidente attraverso i “trionfi” di Giuditta, in The Ottoman Siege of Corfu in 1716, Corfu, Ionian University, 2019, pp. 381-390.

B. La nascita del modernismo (3 CFU)

Text:

- E. Timms, La Vienna di Karl Kraus, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1998.

Please remember that in compliance with art 171 L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.

For further information on sanctions and regulations concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian Association on Copyright).

All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.