- Docente: Renzo Tosi
- Credits: 6
- SSD: L-FIL-LET/02
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Arts (cod. 0958)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student should know in detail Greek music, mainly in its literary and historical aspects, without neglecting the theoretical referents and technical data of early music.
Course contents
a) P.
Vindob. G2315 and Euripides' Orestes
b) History of Ancient Greek Music and Greek Musical Theory
Lectures Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday 9-11 in Aula XII, since 1.2.2011
Readings/Bibliography
a) The musical papyrus of Eurpides' Orestes can be consulted in E. PÖHLMANN - M.L. WEST, Documents of Ancient Greek Music: The Extant Melodies and Fragments, ed. and transcribed with Commentary, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 2001, pp. 12ss. Further bibliography will be cited at the lectures.
b) I. For the history of acnient Greek Music and for the fundamental noions of harmonics, rhythmics e musical semiography one of the following handbooks should be consulted: G. COMOTTI, La musica nella cultura greca e romana, Torino, EDT, 1991; M.L. WEST, Ancient Greek Music, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1992; J.G. LANDELS, Music in Greece and Rome, London-New York 1999. II. It is requested one of the following readings: M. PATERLINI, Septem discrimina vocum. Orfeo e la musica delle sfere, Bologna 1992; A. BARKER, Euterpe. Ricerche sulla musica greca e romana, Pisa-Roma, ETS, 2002; B. GENTILI-R. PRETAGOSTINI (edd.), La musica in Grecia, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1988 (a selection of three essays); R.W. WALLACE-B. MacLACHLAN (edd.), Harmonia mundi. Musica e filosofia nell'antichità, Roma, Edizioni dell'Ateneo, 1991 (a selection of three essays); D. RESTANI (ed.), Musica e mito nella Grecia antica, Bologna, Il mulino, 1995 (a selection of three essays); D. RESTANI (ed.), Etnomusicologia storica del mondo antico, Ravenna, Longo, 2006 (a selection of three essays); P. VOLPE CACCIATORE (ed.), Musica e generi letterari nella Grecia di età classica. «Atti del II congresso Consulta Universitaria Greco. Fisciano, 1 dicembre 2006», Napoli, Arte Tipografica, 2007 (a selection of three essays). III. Students which do not attend the lectures will have a specifc program of readings, to be arranged with the teacher.Teaching methods
Frontal lectures given by the teacher and by dr. M. Ercoles. During the second part of the course the sessions will have a seminar-like form.
Assessment methods
A
first important assessment will be carried out during the seminars,
where the students will be able auto-assess their learning.
The viva voce examination will consist of a conversation in which
the teachers, through a series of questions, will test the
theoretical knowledge and the theoretical-practical methodologies
as explained in the lectures.
Teaching tools
PC, video projector, photocopied hand-outs.
Office hours
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