Università Roma Tre

The aim of the course is to provide the students with basic methodologies and knowledge in the fields of Musicology, History and Sociology of Music. The course programme is divided in two parts: the first is devoted to the fundamentals of music theory (acoustics, notation, musical forms etc.) and to a survey of musical history connected with listening and analysis of exemplary works of both written art music and non-written traditions; the second one, monographic, is focused on the following subject: "Passions in papal Rome: Giacomo Puccini's Tosca.

The examination textbooks are the following: O KAROLYI, Grammatica della musica, Torino, Einaudi, 1967 and reprinted versions; A Survey of history of Western music, in Musica, Le Garzantine, Milano, Garzanti 1996 and updated editions, pp. 1009-1042; Various Authors, Tosca di Giacomo Puccini, program notes, Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, 2008, http://www.puccini.it/assets/tiny/file/OPERE%20TEATRALI/Tosca_2008.pdf. For the performance see the edition on line https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h746rBi1Hdw, staged at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, 5 March 2015,
ORCHESTRA E CORO DEL TEATRO DELL’OPERA DI ROMA, conductor Donato Renzetti.