The second part (30 hours) of the course of History of Music is dedicated to the study of instrumental music, particularly in the Austro-German area, from about 1750 to 1830: genres, forms and languages.
Bibliography, in addiction to lectures notes and materials (slides, scores, plays, handouts) available on moodle platform:
1) Giorgio Pestelli, L’età di Mozart e di Beethoven, Torino, Edt,1991 (escluso il cap. II; comprese le seguenti letture finali: 1, 2,3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13).
2) Carl Dahlhaus, Storia europea della musica nell’età del classicismo viennese, «Nuova rivista musicale italiana», XII, 1978, pp. 499-516.
3) Josef Kerman, I concerti per pianoforte di Mozart e il loro pubblico, «Il Saggiatore musicale», I,1, 1994, pp. 149-164
4) Neal Zaslaw, Significati per le Sinfonie di Mozart, in Mozart, a cura di Sergio Durante, Bologna, il Mulino, 1991
5) Fabrizio Della Seta, L’Eroica, sinfonia quasi un romanzo, in van Beethoven, Le sinfonie e i concerti per pianoforte, a cura di Annalisa Bini e Roberto Grisley, Milano, Skira, 2001, pp. 65-83
6) Maurizio Giani, Lo sguardo di Euridice. Alle origini del mito della Quinta, ivi, pp. 103-118
7) Lewis lockwood, La sinfonia Pastorale, ivi, pp. 119-147
8) Esteban Buch, La Nona Sinfonia, ivi, p. 221-243
Learning Objectives
Acquisition of skills to navigate along the paths of the history of European music between 1750 and 1830 approx. and place the object of musical art music within its particular historical and aesthetical context.
Prerequisites
None
Teaching Methods
Lectures with music listening.
Further information
None
Type of Assessment
Final oral examination.
Course program
Galant style; Endfindsamerstyl; changes in the system of production and circulation of music in the second half of the eighteenth century; shared horizons and stylistic characteristics in instrumental language: sonata forms. Haydn Mozart and Beethoven, in the contemporary reception and historiographical vision of the nineteenth century.