OVERVIEW

The course introduces the student in the language of music and also deepens a historical journey

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course provides a series of practical and theoretical training and suggests some strategies for a basic music literacy aimed at teaching.

TEACHING METHODS

The course includes lectures, watching music videos and direct knowledge of the instruments with the intervention in the classroom for various musicians of the Conservatory

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

The program includes two in-depth areas to be addressed in parallel: the first theoretical and didactic knowledge of musical grammar; according to the historical address.
Part I - Music Theory
Notes on the teaching of music; the sound and its quality; production, reflection and transmission of sound; the notation (history and present notation); the rhythm (solfeggi in 2/4, 3/4, 4/4); intervals, alterations, tones and semitones; stairs (more so); shades; the classification of the instruments and the orchestra; the human voice; pitch of short and easy vocal pieces.

Part II - Historical Music
The history program intends to give priority to an analysis by periods, with attention to the main authors and the main musical forms.

1.         La musica sacra: dal gregoriano alla polifonia fiamminga.

2.         Le prime esperienze profane: i Trovatori e i Trovieri.

3.         Il Cinquecento: Riforma e Controriforma; il madrigale; Monteverdi

4.         Il Barocco: l’opera, la sonata, il concerto;

5.         Haendel e Bach

6.         Il Classicismo viennese: sinfonia, quartetto;  Haydn Mozart e Beethoven

7.         L’Italia fra ‘700 e ‘800: Paganini e Rossini

8.         Il Romanticismo: linee generali e principali autori

9.         La musica in Francia

10.       L’opera italiana: linee generali: Rossini, Verdi, Puccini e Mascagni

11.       Le scuole nazionali

12.       Il Novecento: linee generali (principali correnti e autori)

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

R.Iovino,  Appunti di storia della musica (scaricabili da aula web)

R.Iovino, Dispense di Teoria (scaricabili da aulaweb)

R.Iovino, Esercizi (scaricabili da aula web)

R.Iovino, Musica e musicisti nella storia – Dal tardo Barocco all’Ottocento  – contributi critici di M.Tarrini, D. Bonuccelli, S. Chang, N. Olivieri, C. Picasso, P. Siragna, Ledizioni, Milano (uscita ottobre 2016)

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

ROBERTO IOVINO (President)

CATERINA PICASSO (President)

LESSONS

LESSONS START

Second semester, mid-February

Class schedule

MUSIC EDUCATION

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Oral

ASSESSMENT METHODS

discussion on the theoretical and historical topics addressed.

Exam schedule