HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY OF MUSIC

The course aims to give an appropriate knowledge on the history of modern and contemporary music and to set the events of classical music in the European history of arts and culture.

The first part of the course will be devoted to the beginning of Musical Modernity between the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. The second part of the course will be devoted to the role of the Classical Music in the Kubrick’s Film Works.

The first part of the course will be devoted to the analysis of Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Beethoven’s Third and Ninth Symphonies. The second part of course will be devoted to the analysis of 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange and Eyes Wide Shut.

A. The beginning of Musical Modernity (4 CFU)

G. Pestelli, L’età di Mozart e di Beethoven (Storia della musica a cura dela Società Italiana di Musicologia, 6), Torino, EDT, pp. 109-119, 144-263 (to be found on Studium)

L. Lipperini. Introduzione al Don Giovanni, Roma, Editori Riuniti, 1987, pp. 9-162

F. Della Seta, La Terza Sinfonia di Beethoven. Una guida, Roma, Carocci, 2004, pp. 13-61 (to be found on Studium)

M. Solomon, Beethoven Essays, Harvard, Harvard University Press, 1988, pp. 1-41 (to be found on Studium)

M. Solomon, Late Beethoven. Music, Thought, Imagination, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2003, pp. 43-88 (to be found on Studium)

B. Classical Music in Kubrick's Films

G. Seminara, Il sonoro nei film di Kubrick e il gioco tra i codici, «Musica/Realtà», 59, 2, Lucca, LIM, 1999, pp. 57-73 (to be found on Studium)

S. Bassetti, La musica secondo Kubrick, Torino, Lindau, 2005

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