HISTORY OF MUSIC

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

LTS265

Academic Year of enrolment:

2019

Year of supply:

2019/2020

Type of Course:

Related/Supplementary

Degree:

Course of 2nd Cycle Degree in PHILOLOGY, LINGUISTICS AND LITERARY TRADITIONS

Disciplinary Sector:

Musicology and Music History

Location:

CHIETI

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

PAGANNONE Giorgio

Cycle:

Second semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

108

Prerequisites:

No prerequisites are required, apart from a basic knowledge of the Italian metrics.
We recommend the following support and in-depth tools (optional).
For the rudiments of Italian metrics and the relationship between music and versification:
- Avviamento alla metrica italiana, ed. by T. BALBO, L. BIANCONI and N. BADOLATO, (on-line in powerpoint format:
http://archivi.dar.unibo.it/files/muspe/wwcat/corso/corsi/sdm/metrica1%2...
http://box.dar.unibo.it/files/didattica/Metrica%204%205%206%20NB.ppt).

For the melodramatic vocabulary and musical dramaturgy:
- L. BIANCONI - G. PAGANNONE, Piccolo glossario di drammaturgia musicale, in G. PAGANNONE (ed. by), Insegnare il melodramma. Saperi essenziali, proposte didattiche, Lecce, Pensa Multimedia, 2010, pp. 201-263 (available online: http://box.dar.unibo.it/files/didattica/Glossario-di-Drammaturgia_musica...).

Objectives

The teaching contributes to the achievement of the learning objectives of the Degree course, with particular reference to the following abilities:

Skills and understanding
Knowledge of the features of the history of the opera and of the fundamentals of musical dramaturgy, with particular reference to the nineteenth century Italian opera and "Il trovatore" by Salvadore Cammarano and Giuseppe Verdi.
Knowledge of some issues concerning operatic philology (variants, genesis, tradition).
Knowledge of the metric forms used in nineteenth-century opera.

Ability to apply knowledge and understanding
Acquisition of a method of analysis of the melodrama, as an integrated system of text, music and scene.
Ability to recognize and reconstruct the metric form of an opera libretto, and more generally the morphology of a nineteenth-century opera, with reference to the opera in question.
Ability to compare the libretto to the literary source, highlighting links and differences.

Indipendence of judgment
At the end of the course students will have acquired some technical notions, and the conceptual tools that will enable them to deal autonomously and critically with an operatic text, intended as a combination of poetry, music and drama. They will also be able to grasp the relationships that the librettistic text, as a "derivative" text, has with the literary or theatrical hypotext.

Communication skills
Students must know how to explain the course contents and key concepts with appropriate and clear terms. They will be able to report in a satisfactory way also the listening experiences, both in class and during their individual study. They will also be able to describe and analyse an operatic scene using the appropriate vocabulary.

Contents

«Stride la vampa ... Di quella pira»: "Il trovatore" by Salvadore Cammarano and Giuseppe Verdi.

Extended Syllabus

During the course, nineteenth-century Italian opera, its forms and its dramaturgy will be studied in depth. The study of the opera libretto will be addressed as a means of penetrating deeper into the dramatic and formal devices of the Italian melodrama. Particular attention will be devoted to the study of Verdi's “Trovatore”, a central work in Verdi's production and nineteenth-century Italian opera, through the study of textual and musical forms, the system of characters, and the relations with the theatrical source, the drama of Antonio García Gutiérrez, "El Trobador".

Recommended Bibliography

On the philology of the librettos:
L. BIANCONI, “Il libretto d’opera”, in “Il contributo italiano alla storia del pensiero. Musica”, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Roma, 2017 (in photocopy).

On Verdi and "Il trovatore":
- L. BIANCONI, Il trovatore di Verdi e Cammarano, da García Gutiérrez, in Verdi e le letterature europee, a cura di G. Pestelli, Torino, Accademie delle Scienze di Torino, 2016, pp. 109-151 (in photocopy).
- F. D'AMICO, Note sulla drammaturgia verdiana, in F. d'Amico, Un ragazzino all'Augusteo, Torino, Einaudi, 1991, pp. 41-58 (in photocopy).
- P. GALLARATI, Verdi ritrovato. Rigoletto, Il trovatore, La traviata, Milano, il Saggiatore, 2016, in particolare pp. 17-143 e 289-420 (capitolo sul Trovatore).

Other suggested readings (optional):

On the forms of nineteenth-century Opera:
- M. BEGHELLI, Morfologia dell’opera italiana da Rossini a Puccini, in Enciclopedia della musica, diretta da Jean-Jacques Nattiez, vol. IV (Storia della musica europea), Torino, Einaudi, 2004, pp. 895-921 (in photocopy).

On "Il trovatore":
- J. BUDDEN, Il trovatore, in Le opere di Verdi, II: Dal Trovatore alla Forza del destino, Torino, EDT, 1986, pp. 61-124 (in photocopy).
- F. DELLA SETA, «Ma infine nella vita tutto è morte!». Cosa ci racconta "Il trovatore"? in "Un duplice anniversario: Giuseppe Verdi e Richard Wagner", a cura di I. Bonomi, F. Cella e L. Martini [Atti del convegno a Milano, 25 gennaio 2013], Milano, Istituto Lombardo di Scienze e Lettere, 2014, pp. 57-89 (in photocopy).

NON-ATTENDING students are advised to contact the teacher for additional readings. However, we recommend the following text:

- G. PAGANNONE (a cura di), Insegnare il melodramma. Saperi essenziali, proposte didattiche, Lecce, Pensa Multimedia, 2010, pp. 15-73 (the essays of G. Pagannone and A. Chegai).
They can also make use of the guide to the opera by E. Bonomi, contained in G. VERDI, Il Trovatore, Theatre programme, Venice, Teatro La Fenice, 2011, pp. 45-88 (available online: ).

To follow the lessons it is necessary to have the LIBRETTO of the opera. A copy of the libretto of the first performance will be made available at the beginning of the course.
NB. Do not use other librettos available online or in CD booklets.
The vocal score of the opera can be found at the following website: .
NB. THE FULL LISTENING AND THE VISION of the opera in question is an INTEGRAL PART OF THE PROGRAMME.
NB. Material will be provided during the course. NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS are required to find the study material (in the “materiali didattici”/"teaching materials" at the end of the course). For any problems or doubts concerning the bibliography and the retrieval of the materials, please contact the teacher (giorgio.pagannone@unich.it).

Teaching Methods

A mixed method. After a few introductory lessons aided by the use of slides and support materials, the course will take place in seminar form, with the involvement of the students in the analysis and discussion of the opera in question.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

The final assessment consists of an oral exam on the entire syllabus. The aim is to assess students’ skills and in particular, an understanding of the issues discussed during the course, an appropriate knowledge of the bibliography in the course programme, a correct command of the specific language as well as critical and methodological abilities will be evaluated. The grading scale goes from 1 to 30 with honours (cum laude): 1-17 fail, 18-21 sufficient, 22-24 fair, 25-27 good, 28-29 very good, 30-30 with honours (cum laude) excellent.

Contacts/More Information

Regular attendance is strongly recommended, given the seminar-based structure of the course.
NB. DURING THE 2019 AUTUMN SEASON AT THE MARRUCINO THEATRE THE VERDI'S OPERA "IL RIGOLETTO" IS SCHEDULED TO BE VIEWED . INTERESTED STUDENTS ARE ADVISED TO BOOK EARLY, BY WRITING AN EMAIL TO THE TEACHER: giorgio.pagannone@unich.it.

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