Università Roma Tre

THE COURSE WILL ILLUSTRATE THE EVOLUTION OF THE MAIN GENRES AND FORMS OF ORCHESTRAL MUSIC FROM THE CLASSICAL TRADITION, WITH ATTENTION TO FORMAL AND AESTHETIC PRINCIPLES THAT ARE THE BASIS OF THE CATEGORIES OF ABSOLUTE MUSIC AND PROGRAM MUSIC. IN PARTICULAR, THE SYMPHONIE N. 9 BY L. VAN BEETHOVEN WILL BE ANALYZED, ALSO WITH SPECIFIC REFERENCE TO ITS RECEPTION IN KUBRICK’S CINEMA.

SELECTED ESSAYS WHICH WILL BE COMMUNICATED AT THE BEGINNING OF THE LESSONS (AVAILABLE IN COPY SHOP IN VIA GIULIO ROCCO)

HARVEY SACHS, LA NONA SINFONIA, MILANO, GARZANTI, 2011;

ADDITIONAL BOOK FOR STUDENTS WHO DO NOT ATTEND THE LESSONS:
Maynard Solomon, L’ultimo Beethoven, Roma, Carocci, 2010, pp. 43- 88, 111-121, 157-203, 241-271

LIST OF SOME MUSICAL WORKS WHICH STUDENTS HAVE TO LISTEN
Arcangelo Corelli Concerto grosso fatto per la Notte di Natale
Antonio Vivaldi Le quattro stagioni
Johann Sebastian Bach Concerti brandeburghesi nn. 3 e 4
Joseph Haydn Sinfonia n. 103
Wolfgang A. Mozart Sinfonia n. 40, Concerto per violino e orchestra K 216, concerto per pianoforte e orchestra K 488
Ludwig van Beethoven Sinfonie nn. 3, 5, 6, 7 e 9, Ouverture Coriolano, Concerto per pianoforte orchestra n. 5 "Imperatore"
Franz Schubert Sinfonia n. 8
Felix Mendelssohn Concerto per violino e orchestra. in mi minore
Nicolò Paganini Concerto per violino e orchestra n. 1 in re maggiore
Hector Berlioz Sinfonia Fantastica
Johannes Brahms Sinfonia n. 4
Franz Liszt Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne - poema sinfonico
Bedrich Smetana Poema sinfonico “La Moldava”
Piotr Ilic Cajkovsky Ouverture Romeo e Giulietta, Sinfonia n. 6
Piotr Ilic Cajkovsky Concerto per pianoforte e orchestra n. 1 in sib minore
Piotr Ilic Cajkovsky Concerto per violino e orchestra op. 35 in re maggiore
Jean Sibelius Concerto per violino e orchestra in re minore op. 47
Gustav Mahler Sinfonie nn. 1 e 5
Richard Strauss Also Sprach Zarathustra - poema sinfonico