BASICS OF MUSICAL COMMUNICATION
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2018/2019
- Teacher
- MARCO MANGANI
- Credits
- 12
- Didactic period
- Secondo Semestre
- SSD
- L-ART/07
Training objectives
- Know: The course provides an overview of the biological and cognitive bases of music and of its multiple communicative functions.
Know-How: At the end, students are able to aurally analyze simple musical pieces and to recognize the specific role of music in the context of multimedial communication. Prerequisites
- None
Course programme
- 1st module
The concept of "musicality" and the biological and cognitive bases of music.
2nd module
Communication of emotions through film music.
i. Film music: History and methodologies.
ii. Film music and the communication of emotions.
iii. Hitchcock's music: A case study.
Part 2.iii will be in seminar form: after some introductive lectures, students will form groups, each of which dealing with a film chosen among those directed by Alfred Hitchcock during his American period (non-attenders are supposed to propose a similar analysis at the exam). Didactic methods
- - Lectures (60%), with oral exposition by the teacher, commentary on texts and videos, and use of Powerpoint presentations. These materials will be made available to students in a shared folder posted on the minisite of the course.
All lessons will be recorded and stored on the FAD- Se@ platform, as an additional service addressed to both attending and non-attending students.
- Seminar activity (40%), with groups for the analysis of different films. Learning assessment procedures
- Oral exam in three parts:
1. A question about the 1st module.
2. A question about the 2nd module.
3. Account of seminar. Reference texts
- 1.
- www.musichevoluzione.it (www.musicaptation.org)
- "The Origins of Musicality", ed. by Henkjan Honing, Cambridge MA - London, The MIT Press, 2018 (only the essays by Tecumseh Fitch and Aniruddh Patel).
2.
2.i)
Kathryn Kalinak, "Musica da film. Una breve introduzione" («Film Music. A Very Short Introduction», 2010), trad. it., Torino, EdT, 2012.
2.ii)
Bertrand Merlier, "Analyse des mécanismes émotionels dans la fiction", in "La traduction des émotions dans les musiques de films", a c. di M. Jobert e B. Merlier, s.l., Éditions Delatour France, 2015, pp. 79-90 (an Italian summary of the essay will be at disposal in Powerpoint format).
2.iii)
Jack Sullivan, "Hitchcock's Music", New Haven-London, Yale University Press, 2006 (each group will only deal with the specific chapters concerning the chosen film).
