B1694 - History and Historiography of Music of the Eighteenth Century (1) (LM)

Academic Year 2024/2025

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Music and Theatre Studies (cod. 8837)

    Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Music and Theatre Studies (cod. 8837)

Course contents

W. A. Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro.

Readings/Bibliography

Le nozze di Figaro, in The Librettos of Mozart's Operas, vol. 5: The Da Ponte Operas, ed. by E. Warburton (New York, Garland, 1992), online <https://www.loc.gov/resource/musschatz.16980.0/?sp=3&r=-0.396,0.341,1.202,0.455,0.>

Le nozze di Figaro, ed. by L. Finscher (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2005 = n. ed. Bärenreiter TP 320), online <https://dme.mozarteum.at/DME/nma/nmapub_srch.php?l=2> or <https://imslp.eu/files/imglnks/euimg/7/71/IMSLP683990-PMLP3845-mozart_NMA_II,_5,_16,_Band_1-2.pdf>

G. Pestelli, L'età di Mozart e di Beethoven, Torino, EDT, 1991, pp. 146-177.

H. Abert, Mozart. La maturità 1783-1791, Milano, il Saggiatore, 1985, pp. 246-320.

M. Mila, Lettura delle "Nozze di Figaro". Mozart e la ricerca della felicità, Torino, Einaudi, 1979 (rist. 2003).

F. D'Amico, Forma divina. Saggi sull'opera lirica e sul balletto, I, Sette e Ottocento, ed. by N. Badolato and L. Bianconi, Firenze, Leo S. Olschki, 2012, pp. 16-21.

De Matteis, Musica e gesto nel teatro mozartiano. Le didascalie musicali nelle "Nozze di Figaro", Lucca, LIM, 2020.

S. Lamacchia, Il vero Figaro o sia il falso factotum. Riesame del "Barbiere" di Rossini, Torino, EDT- De Sono, 2008, pp. 271-297.

 

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Teaching methods

Lectures, readings and comments on Le nozze di Figaro, discussions with the class-group.

Assessment methods

The exam consists of an oral examination.

Teaching tools

Power point, video projections

Office hours

See the website of Saverio Lamacchia