B008148 - Ethnomusicology 2

Italian

The course consists of two distinct parts:
Part 1. The improvisation and oral poetry
Part 2: Toward a history of jazz. Recent musical experiences in “Modern Jazz”. Writing music, improvisation and performance.

Part 1:
Maurizio Agamennone e Francesco Giannattasio (a cura di), Sul verso cantato. La poesia orale in una prospettiva etnomusicologica, Il. Cardo, Padova, 2002.
Maurizio Agamennone (a cura di), Cantar ottave. Per una storia culturale dell’intonazione cantata in ottava rima, LIM, Lucca, 2017.

Part 2 (A): to choice one of following titles:
a) Vincenzo Martorella, Il Blues, Einaudi, Torino, 2009;
b) Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Il popolo del blues. Sociologia degli afroamericani attraverso il jazz, ShaKe Ed., Milano, 1994 (1963).
Part 2 (B): to choice one of following titles:
c) Arrigo Polillo, Il Jazz. La vicenda e i protagonisti della musica afro- americana, edizione aggiornata a cura di Franco Fayenz, Mondadori, Milano, 2009;
d) Eileen Southern, La musica dei neri americani. Dai canti degli schiavi ai Public Enemy, Il Saggiatore, Milano, 2007 (ed. or. 1997).

In relation to the two distinct parts concerning the course, the objectives are as follows:
Part 1. Acquire knowledge concerning the practices of poetic improvisation in Italian cultural history
Part 2. Acquire the knowledge of the main musical experiences in the field of jazz and music of African-American origin. Acquire knowledge of the main improvisation procedures in the practices of the jazz and other African-American music

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Direct class lasts three hours during three months, having continuous restort to sound and visual sources

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The examination is oral. During the test the student must demonstrate: a) to know the arguments relating to the course program and to understand the main conceptual categories; b) to express their views with command of language and knowledge of technical terminology; c) to know the main elements of the grammar of music and the interpretative and analytical methods of ethnomusicological studies.

Part 1 (main course).
The poetic improvisation in “ottava rima” in the Italian cultural history: courtly and folkloric practices. The medieval "cantari" in in “ottava rima”. The intonation of strophes in “ottava rima” in Renaissance polyphony. The poetic improvisation in the Mediterranean and European area. The poetic improvisation in contemporary experiences.
Part 2. History of Jazz: The main experiences of American and European jazz. Procedures in the historical events of jazz improvisation. Writing and extemporary invention: analysis of some experiences