39596 - Documentation for the Musical Heritage

Learning outcomes

Teaching addresses the study of music as an essential component of cultural heritage through the reading and contextualization of music books (manuscripts and prints) and other documents (textual, sonic and iconographic) of musical interest from the ancient age to the contemporary age. At the end of the course the student is able to identify and contextualize the main types of musical sources and to apply his knowledge to the musical heritage's enhancement.

Course contents

The first part of the course will introduce the concept of 'musical heritage', in its tangible and intangible components and will illustrate the main types of musical documents and sources: manuscript and printed music books, opera booklets, music-iconographic sources, musical instruments, audiovisual media, etc. This part of the course will be integrated by the presentation of the main databases dedicated to music repertoires and iconographic sources, with a particular attention to the digital projects and archives set up in the Music Laboratory of the Department of Cultural Heritage.

Specialized part. The book of music in the XV and XVI century: typologies, functions, iconographic representations. The monographic part of the course will first illustrate the main typologies of the 15th century manuscripts from the material point of view and from that of the specific functions of conservation, use and transmission of the various liturgical and profane repertoires. Particular attention will therefore be given to the innovations introduced by the advent of music printing : starting from the Odhecaton (Venice, 1501), the course will take into consideration Petrucci's musical production, the editorial strategies of the first printers active in Venice and Rome and their impact on the diffusion of repertoires and on the value of a distinctive sign of social and cultural belonging assigned to the printed music book

The course includes moreover the presentation and the guided tour of the International Museum and Music Library (Bologna).

The course will take place in the second semester, starting on Tuesday 25th March 2025.

Readings/Bibliography

Beni musicali Salvaguardia e valorizzazione. Atti della Giornata di Studi (Roma, 29 Novembre 2016), Antonio Caroccia ed., Ariccia, Cover, 2018.

V. BORGHETTI, Il Manoscritto di musica tra Quattro e Cinquecento, in Il libro di musica. Per una storia materiale delle fonti musicali in Europa, Carlo Fiore ed., Palermo, Epos, 2004, pp.89-114;

I. FENLON, Music, Print and Culture in Early Sixteenth-Century Italy, London, The British Library, 1995;

- Comune di Bologna. Museo Internazionale e biblioteca della musica. Guida al percorso espositivo, L. Bianconi & P. Isotta eds., Bologna, Studio Costa, 2006.

Suggested readings:

Venezia 1501. Petrucci e la stampa musicale, exhibition catalogue, I. Fenlon & P. Dalla Vecchia eds., Venezia, Edizioni della Laguna, 2001.

-S. SUATONI, Gli strumenti musicali. Dallo spettacolo al museo spettacolare. Tutela, valorizzazione, museologia, museografia. L’esempio del museo nazionale degli strumenti musicali, Roma, UniversItalia, 2019.

 

Teaching methods

Readings and seminars; the course will also include exercises in the Musical Laboratory of the Department of Cultural Heritage and a guided tour to the Museo e Biblioteca internazionale della musica (Bologna)

Assessment methods

The exam consists of an oral interview aimed at assessing the critical and methodological skills and knowledge acquired by the student, who will be invited to confront the texts, the themes and the methodological issues faced during the course and during the seminars.

Attending students will be required to elaborate an individual job, to be agreed with the teacher and presented in seminar form during the last lectures.

Students non attending to the lectures are required to read the texts listed in the bibliography and are invited to contact the teacher to agree an individual work.

The assessment of the exam will take into account, in particular, the student's ability to use readings, sources, and exam bibliography to illustrate contents and issues, and to establish links between them .

The examinator will therefore assess the mastery of the content and the ability to synthesize and analyze the concepts, and the ability to express themselves in a language appropriated to the subject matter.

Furthermore, the student's  active participation in cultural initiatives (conferences, lectures, book presentations) connected to the topics of the course, organized by the teacher or by the teachers of the Department of Cultural Heritage, will be positively evaluated.

The student’s achievement of an organic vision of the themes dealt within the lessons, together with their critical use and good expressive mastery and specific Language, will be evaluated with excellence marks; formative gaps and / or inappropriate language, will lead to votes that will not exceed the sufficiency.

Teaching tools

PC, video projector, CD player.

Students affected by disabilities or specific learning disorders (DSA) and in need of special strategies to compensate it, are kindly requested to contact the Teacher (Prof. Guidobaldi), in order to be referred to the colleagues in charge and get proper advice and instructions.

https://site.unibo.it/studenti-con-disabilita-e-dsa/it/per-studenti

Office hours

See the website of Nicoletta Guidobaldi