MUSIC DRAMATURGY

The course offers to give methodological tools for an appropriate knowledge on musical dramaturgy and to set opera theatre in the European history of Arts and culture.

A The methodological foundations of the discipline (1 CFU)

B The Studies on the use of narrative techniques derived from the novel in the musical theater of the nineteenth century (1 CFU)

C The musical drama of Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner and the corresponding cultural contexts (literary, philosophical, artistic) (4 CFU)

A The methodological foundations of the discipline (1 CFU)

Text:

• C. Dahlhaus, Drammaturgia dell'opera italiana, Torino, EDT, 2005.
• L. Bianconi, La forma musicale come scuola dei sentimenti, in Educazione musicale e formazione, a cura di G. La Face e F. Frabboni, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2008, pp. 85-120.
• L. Bianconi, G. Pagannone, Piccolo glossario di drammaturgia musicale, in Insegnare il melodramma. Saperi essenziali, proposte didattiche, a cura di G. Pagannone, Lecce-Iseo, Pensa MultiMedia, 2010, pp. 201-263.

B The Studies on the use of narrative techniques derived from the novel in the musical theater of the nineteenth century (1 CFU)

Texts:

- L. Zoppelli, L’opera come racconto. Modi narrativi nel teatro musicale, Venezia, Marsilio, 1994.

C The musical drama of Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner (4 CFU)

Texts:

• P. Gallarati, Rigoletto, Il trovatore, La traviata, Milano, il Saggiatore, 2016
• F. Noske, The Signifier and the Signified. Studies in the Operas of Mozart and Verdi, The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, 1977, Part ii: Verdi.
• J-J. Nattiez, Wagner Androgyne: A Study in Interpretation, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1993.

Other educational materials will be provided during the vision of the following works: Rigoletto, Il trovatore, La traviata, Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried, Götterdämmerung.