Discography and musical videography for the multimedia (s) (2007/2008)

Learning outcomes

This course has two main goals: first, to investigate the media and technologies employed to fix and transmit music in the western world; second, to acquire the expertise and tools necessary to create music-related publications.
Lectures.

The first section of the course surveys the relationship between western music and the media, focusing on Medieval and Renaissance repertories (including the "invention" of ways of notating music, the diffusion of music books and their typologies, and the beginnings of music printing), and the audio-visual reproduction of such repertories. The second part of the course is devoted to the techniques and tools of present-day music-related publishing. Special attention is paid to multi-media resources related to the repertories discusses in the first part, focusing on a few recent audio-visual works of special interest. Further bibliography may be suggested during the course.

Bibliography: notes from the lectures;
MARIO CARROZZO, CRISTINA CIMAGALLI, Storia della musica occidentale, vol. I, Dalle origini al Cinquecento, Roma, Armando Editore 2007 (rist.);
Il libro di musica. Per una storia materiale delle fonti musicali in Europa, a cura di Carlo Fiore, Palermo, L’Epos 2004 (introduction by Carlo Fiore, pp. 9-17; one chapter chosen from the following: Giacomo Baroffio, pp. 21-42; Mark Everist, pp. 43-64; John Stinson, pp. 65-88; Vincenzo Borghetti, pp. 89-114, Stanley Boorman, pp. 115-136, Tim Carter, pp. 137-162, Angela Romagnoli, pp. 215-238);
JACQUES HAINS, Dal rullo di cera al CD, in Enciclopedia della musica, diretta da Jan-Jacques Nattiez, vol. 1, Il Novecento, Torino, Einaudi 2001, pp. 783-819;
RÉAL LA ROCHELLE, Il disco e le multinazionali, in Enciclopedia della musica, diretta da Jean-Jacques Nattiez, vol. 1, Il Novecento, Torino, Einaudi 2001, pp. 820-833;
ALEJANDRO PLANCHART, L’interpretazione della musica antica, in Enciclopedia della musica, diretta da Jean-Jacques Nattiez, vol. 2, Il sapere musicale, Torino, Einaudi 2002, pp. 1011-1028;
BERNARD D. SHERMAN, Introduzione: un’atmosfera di controversia; e Musica medioevale, canto piano e “alterità”, in Interviste sulla musica antica. Dal Canto gregoriano a Monteverdi, Torino, EDT 2002, respectiv. pp. 1-24 e 27-29.

Videography;
JOHN LA BOUCHARDIÈRE, The Full Monteverdi, dvd Naxos (2.110224) 2007.

Students who do not plan to attend lectures must agree on further readings with the lecturer.
The course is delivered through lectures, which include listening and viewing.

oral exam