95878 - History and Historiography of Medieval and Renaissance Music (1) (Lm)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student acquires the methodological and critical foundations of musical historiography related to the History of Western Music of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The student will also be able to integrate the specific requirements of the musicological specialisation with some of the more general trends of historical research in the artistic, socio-cultural and cultural fields. At the same time, the student learns about the main events and becomes familiar with the lives and works of the main protagonists of music from the Ninth to the Sixteenth century, which will also be investigated in relation to the birth and subsequent development of musical writing, through to the to the contrapuntal complexity of the great polyphony of the 15th and 16th centuries; It also acquires knowledge of the main genres and compositional forms from the 9th to the 16th century; of the foundations of monodic and polyphonic modes and some of the most important compositional procedures of these periods of these periods. Finally, thanks to the study of a good number of musical texts and documents, the students know how to critically interpret texts and documents - the main intellectual characteristics, the cultural references, and finally the social, ideological and political use of music from the early Middle Ages to the early modern age.

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