BASICS OF MUSICAL COMMUNICATION
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- Academic year
- 2017/2018
- Teacher
- MARCO MANGANI
- Credits
- 12
- Didactic period
- Secondo Semestre
- SSD
- L-ART/07
Training objectives
- Know: The course aims to set music in the context of the knowledge system and to define the cognitive constraints within which music itself may be defined as a communication system.
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
Cognitive bases of musical communication
a) Music and evolution
b) Psychology of Music
References:
a) www.musichevoluzione.it (www.musicaptation.org)
b) Daniele Schön, Lilach Akiva-Kabiri, Tomaso Vecchi, Psicologia della musica, Roma, Carocci, 13a rist., 2017.
2nd module
Communication of emotion through film music
i. Film music: History and methodologies.
ii. Film music and the communication of emotion.
iii. Stanley Kubrick’s Shining: A case study
Part 2.iii will be in seminar form: students will form groups, each of which dealing with a specific, musically relevant scene from Shining (non-attenders are supposed to analyze two such scenes 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 film scenes. 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.
a) www.musichevoluzione.it (www.musicaptation.org)
b) Daniele Schön, Lilach Akiva-Kabiri, Tomaso Vecchi, "Psicologia della musica", Roma, Carocci, 13a rist., 2017.
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)
Denis Le Touzé, "Fonctions formelles et émotionelles des extraits musicaux dans le film 'Shining' de Stanley Kubrick", in "La traductions des émotions", cit., pp. 101-119 (an Italian summary of the essay will be at disposal in Powerpoint format).
Stanley Kubrick, "Shining" (1980), DVD Warner Home Video, 2007.
For those who have no knowledge of the 20th-century classical music, the following readings are recommended:
"Musica e società. Dal 1830 al 2000", a c. di V. Bernardoni e P. Fabbri, Lucca, LIM, 2016:
- Chapter 9.6, pp. 318-325 (with part. ref. to Béla Bartók)
- Chapter 12.5, pp. 439-443 (with part. ref. to György Ligeti and Krzysztof Penderecki).
