Programme

This course focuses on the history of music, especially on the history of western art music, from a didactic point of view, considering the following topics:
a. teaching the history of music: discussion of perspectives and methods against the background of current paradigms and historiographical horizons of research in the field of historical musicology;
b. features and ideas for teaching the history of music at high school level in Italy: ‘teaching of listening’ and construction of intra and interdisciplinary educational paths.
c. texts, people, ideas and facts in the history of music: from the sources to the modes of the historiographic ‘narration’. A case study will be examined, taking into account the recent developments in musicological research about it and as it is rendered in the school textbooks;
d. music in history, music as history. A case study linked to this topic will be considered;

Core Documentation

1. Cristina Cano, Didattica della Storia della Musica, «Musica/Realtà», XV, n. 45, dicembre 1994, pp. 89-115

2. Andrea Chegai, Paolo Russo, La didattica della storia della musica, «Il Saggiatore musicale», XV, 2008, pp. 269-279

3. Giuseppina La Face Bianconi, La didattica dell’ascolto, «Musica e storia», XIV/3, 2006, pp. 511-544

4. Andrea Malvano, Da Mallarmé a Bozzetto: un percorso didattico interdisciplinare sul “Prélude à
l’après-midi d’un faune” di Claude Debussy, «Musica Docta», 8, 2018, pp. 127-147

5. James L. Zychowicz, Gustav Mahler’s Second Century: Achievements in Scholarship and Challenges for Research, «Notes», 67/3, 2011, pp. 457-482

6. Sulla Sesta sinfonia di Gustav Mahler:
6.a. Mario Carrozzo, Cristina Cimagalli, Storia della musica occidentale, vol. 3, Roma, Armando editore, 2009 (19991), pp. 269-277
6.b. Musiche nella storia. Dall’età di Dante alla Grande Guerra, a cura di Andrea Chegai et alii, Roma, Carocci, 2021 (20171), pp. 695-702
6.c. Gastón Fournier-Facio, L’ordine “corretto” dei movimenti centrali nella Sesta sinfonia di Mahler, in Tutto Mahler. La vita e le opere raccontate dai grandi esperti italiani, a cura di Id., Varese, Zecchini, 2023, pp. 146-159

7. Fabrizio Della Seta, Musica nella storia e musica come storia, in Educazione musicale e formazione, a cura di Giuseppina La Face Bianconi e Franco Frabboni, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2008, pp. 379-386

8. Philip Gossett, Daniela Macchione, Le «edizioni distrutte» e il significato dei cori operistici nel Risorgimento, «Il Saggiatore musicale», 12/2, 2005, pp. 339-387

9. Maria Rosa De Luca, Opera, evento e storytelling. Costruire la Storia attraverso la musica d’arte, «Musica Docta», 9/1, 2019, pp. 151-171

Reference Bibliography

See "Testi adottati"

Type of delivery of the course

The course consists of 10 lectures, integrated by listening to and analyzing musical compositions. The lists of musical examples as well as the texts of the musical works considered during the course will be made available in Moodle.

Attendance

See "Modalità di svolgimento"

Type of evaluation

Oral exam with questions on the topics discussed within the lectures and on the bibliographical references. The exam will be completed by the presentation in written form, by the student, of an educational path for teaching the history of music in Italian high school, focused on the case study that will be discussed during the course within the point b. of the program (see, in this same table, under the heading ‘Program’). Form, deadline, materials for the preparation of the written presentation will be indicated to the students at the beginning of the course. The materials will then be made available in Moodle.