The course aims to provide students with the critical and technical skills to analyze scores from different eras, periods and different authors, also with reference to the teaching of musical disciplines in school classes.
teacher profile teaching materials
• What is music analysis
• History of music analysis
Principal methodologies of music analysis
Exercises of phraseological analysis
Exercises of morphological analysis
Exercises of analysis of thematic derivation
IAN BENT – WILLIAM DRABKIN, Analisi musicale, Torino, EDT, 1990: capitoli I (L’analisi musicale in generale) e IV (La metodologia dell’analisi)
Programme
Introduction:• What is music analysis
• History of music analysis
Principal methodologies of music analysis
Exercises of phraseological analysis
Exercises of morphological analysis
Exercises of analysis of thematic derivation
Core Documentation
CLEMENS KÜHN, Il linguaggio delle forme nella musica occidentale, Milano, Unicopli, 1987: parte III (Musica e tempo), IV (Elementi strutturali della composizione), V (Melodia) e VI (Forma musicale e opera musicale)IAN BENT – WILLIAM DRABKIN, Analisi musicale, Torino, EDT, 1990: capitoli I (L’analisi musicale in generale) e IV (La metodologia dell’analisi)
Reference Bibliography
Other texts and handouts, together with their list, will be provided during the course and on the Moodle platform.Type of delivery of the course
The course is articulated in 10 lessons: the first part is a theoretical presentation, the second part presents some analytical examples with different methodological approaches and different goals.Attendance
Attendance is not mandatory but highly recommendedType of evaluation
Discussion about lesson arguments and texts indicated in the bibliography. Presentation of a written analysis of a composition selected from a composition list.