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STORIA DELLA MUSICA GRECA ANTICA

Angelo MERIANI STORIA DELLA MUSICA GRECA ANTICA

0312800036
DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL HERITAGE
EQF6
SCIENZE DEI BENI CULTURALI
2018/2019

YEAR OF COURSE 2
YEAR OF DIDACTIC SYSTEM 2017
SECONDO SEMESTRE
CFUHOURSACTIVITY
945LESSONS
ANGELO MERIANI T Curriculum
STEFANO AMENDOLA Curriculum
Objectives
THE COURSE AIMS AT INTRODUCING STUDENTS TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE ROLE OF MOUSIKÈ IN GREEK CULTURE AND SOCIETY, FROM THE ORIGINS TO THE IMPERIAL AGE; LITERARY, PHILOSOPHICAL AND MUSIC-THEORETICAL TEXTS WILL BE THOROUGHLY STUDIED; NOTATIONAL SYSTEMS WILL BE ALSO ILLUSTRATED, IN ORDER TO PUT STUDENTS IN A POSITION TO READ AND INTERPRET SOME FRAGMENTS OF THE SURVIVING MUSICAL SCORES.
Prerequisites
1. MASTERY OF WRITTEN AND ORAL ITALIAN (ABILITY TO READ AND UNDERSTAND WRITTEN TEXTS, TO LISTEN AND UNDERSTAND ORAL SPEECHES, TO EXTEMPORISE SUMMARIES OF THEM WITH ADEQUATE LANGUAGE SKILLS, ORALLY AND / OR IN WRITING; ABILITY TO PRODUCE, WITH ADEQUATE LANGUAGE SKILLS, WRITTEN AND ORAL REPORTS ON SPECIFIC TOPICS);2. BASIC KNOWLEDGE OF HISTORY AND HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE ANCIENT WORLD; 3. ABILITY TO USE A HISTORICAL ATLAS.
Contents
THE LECTURES WILL FOCUS ON THE FOLLOWING PONTSI:
1. MUSICAL HISTORY AND THEORY; ANCIENT GREEK MUSIC AND ITS CONTEXTS: MUSIC, CULTURE, SOCIETY FROM THE ORIGINS TO THE IMPERIAL AGE; ORIGINS; THE NÒMOI; MONODIC AND CHORAL LYRIC; THE DITHYRHAMBUS: ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENTS; THE HARMONÌAI; ATTIC DRAMA IN V CENT. BC;THE SO-CALLED 'NEW MUSIC'; MUSIC, POLITICS, PHILOSOPHY: PYTHAGORAS, PERICLES, DAMON, PLATO, ARISTOTELES; ARISTOXENUS; MUSIC AND MEDICIN; MUSICAL THEORY; ORGANOLOGIA; MUSICAL NOTATION; THE SURVIVING FRAGMENTS OF MUSICAL SCORES; MUSICAL HISTORIOGRAPHY. 2. SELECTED TEXTS FROM LYRIC POETS, WITH INTRODUCTION, TRANSLATION AND COMMENTARY. 3. SELECTED TEXTS OF GREEK AUTHORS ON MUSIC, WITH INTRODUCTION, TRANSLATION AND COMMENTARY.
Teaching Methods
22 LECTURES: 21 OF 2 HOURS, 1 OF 1 HOUR: 45 HOURS IN TOTAL; ATTENDANCE AT THESE LECTURES IS NOT COMPULSORY. THOSE STUDENTS WHO DECIDE NOT TO ATTEND THE LECTURES MUST ANYWAY STUDY THE CONTENTS OF THEM, AS WELL AS THE REFERENCE TEXTS. THE LECTURES WILL BE DELIVERED IN ITALIAN; DURING THEM NUMEROUS TEXTS IN ANCIENT GREEK WILL BE READ, TRANSLATED INTO ITALIAN AND COMMENTED ON.
Verification of learning
ORAL EXAM ON THE CONTENTS OF THE LECTURES AND THE ADOPTED TEXTS.
DURING THE EXAM, THE FOLLOWING WILL BE EVALUATED:
1. CORRECTNESS AND ACCURACY OF INFORMATION;
2. ABILITY TO RESPOND WITH RELEVANCE AND ACCURACY TO QUESTIONS;
3. ABILITY TO SPEAK WITH CLARITY, ACCURACY AND ADEQUATE LANGUAGE SKILLS;
4. ABILITY TO ARTICULATE COMPLEX DISCUSSIONS IN A COHERENT WAY;
5. ABILITY TO PLACE THE HISTORICAL-LINGUISTIC PHENOMENA IN A WIDER HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXT;
6. ABILITY TO SYNTESISE.
Texts
1. ELEONORA ROCCONI (CUR.), I SUONI PERDUTI. MUSICA ED EVENTI SONORI IN GRECIA E A ROMA, ENCYCLOMEDIA PUBLISHERS S.R.L., MILANO 2013 (EBOOK ISBN 9788897514169); 2. ANTONIETTA PROVENZA, LA MEDICINA DELLE MUSE. LA MUSICA COME CURA NELLA GRECIA ANTICA, CAROCCI EDITORE, ROMA 2016; 3. CAMILLO NERI, LA LIRICA GRECA. TEMI E TESTI, CAROCCI EDITORE, ROMA 2004.
More Information
CLARIFICATIONS AND EXPLANATIONS COULD BE GIVEN, ON REQUEST OF THE STUDENTS, AT THE END OF THE LECTURES; STUDENTS COULD ALSO WRITE TO THE PROFESSOR VIA EMAIL: A.MERIANI@UNISA.IT.
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