Contemporary Techniques and Compositional Languages
A.Y. 2019/2020
Learning objectives
To inform students about the different compositional methods during the 20th century
Expected learning outcomes
Students must be able to analyze the scores written during the 20th century, recognizing the distinctive traits about the different aesthetics and techniques
Lesson period: Open sessions
Single course
This course cannot be attended as a single course. Please check our list of single courses to find the ones available for enrolment.
Course syllabus and organization
(Erogato presso il Conservatorio)
Course syllabus
During the course, we will deal with the topic of the different compositional methods in the contemporary music: from the creation of a reference structure till the use of chance.
We will analyze scores of Schoenberg, Webern, Stravinsky, Luigi Nono, Scelsi, Xenakis, Cage, Stockhausen e Feldman, Reich.
We will analyze scores of Schoenberg, Webern, Stravinsky, Luigi Nono, Scelsi, Xenakis, Cage, Stockhausen e Feldman, Reich.
Prerequisites for admission
To be able to read musical notation
Teaching methods
Frontal lections
Teaching Resources
Mahler: sinfonia no 1
Sinfonia no 4
Schoenberg: verklarte nacht
Kammersymphonie
Op.11
Op19
Op.25
Op.31
Alban Berg lirische suite
Violin concert
Anton Webern:
Op 8
Op 9
Op 10
Op 21
Op 24
Igor Stravinsky Petruska
Uccello di fuoco
Sagra della primavera
Apollon Musagete
Sinfonia dei Salmi
Mass
Canticum sacrum
Variations for orchestra
C. Debussy: La mer
M. Ravel: Trois poèmes de Stephane Mallarmé
E. Satie: Vexations
O. Messiaen: Turangalila Symphonie
E. Varèse: Arcana
P. Boulez: Structures per 2 pianoforti. Primo libro
J. Cage: Freeman Etude 1
In a landscape
Imaginary landscape no 1
G. Ligeti: Concerto per violino e orchestra
M. Feldman: Coptic light
K. Stockhausen: Trans
G. Scelsi: Quartetto no 5
L. Nono: A Carlo Scarpa
Y. Xenakis: Tetras
F. Donatoni: Hot
L. Berio: Folk songs
F. Zappa: Grand Wazoo
The Gumbo variations
B. Eno: Music for airports
Baby's on fire
R. Fripp: 1986
S. Reich: Drumming
P. Glass: Knee play 3 (from Einstein on the beach)
T. Riley: Persian surgery dervishes
Miles Davis: Kind of Blue (full album)
O. Coleman: Something else
C. Parker: Ornitology
Led Zeppelin: Whole lotta love
Meshuggah: Autonomy lost
Pantera: Walk
Radiohead: Karmakoma
T. Yorke: Eraser
King Crimson: Larks' tongues in aspic Part 1
Matching Moles: Gloria gloom
R. Wyatt: Solar flares
The Yes: Close to the edge
Aphex Twin: Jynweythek (from DrukQs)
Autechre: Garbage (full EP)
Bibliography
III. Stoianova, Ivanka. Musique répétitive, in Musique en jeu n°26, èditions de Seuil, Paris
IV. Sciarrino, Salvatore. Le figure della musica, Edizioni Ricordi, Milano 1998
III. Barthes, Roland. Le degré zero de l'écriture, Editions du Seuil, Paris 1956.
IV. Boulez, Pierre. Pensare la musica oggi, Giulio Einaudi Editore, Torino 1979.
VII. Tagg, Philip. la tonalità di tutti i giorni, Il Saggiatore, Milano 2011.
VIII. Cage, John. Silenzio, Shake edizioni, Milano 2010
Sinfonia no 4
Schoenberg: verklarte nacht
Kammersymphonie
Op.11
Op19
Op.25
Op.31
Alban Berg lirische suite
Violin concert
Anton Webern:
Op 8
Op 9
Op 10
Op 21
Op 24
Igor Stravinsky Petruska
Uccello di fuoco
Sagra della primavera
Apollon Musagete
Sinfonia dei Salmi
Mass
Canticum sacrum
Variations for orchestra
C. Debussy: La mer
M. Ravel: Trois poèmes de Stephane Mallarmé
E. Satie: Vexations
O. Messiaen: Turangalila Symphonie
E. Varèse: Arcana
P. Boulez: Structures per 2 pianoforti. Primo libro
J. Cage: Freeman Etude 1
In a landscape
Imaginary landscape no 1
G. Ligeti: Concerto per violino e orchestra
M. Feldman: Coptic light
K. Stockhausen: Trans
G. Scelsi: Quartetto no 5
L. Nono: A Carlo Scarpa
Y. Xenakis: Tetras
F. Donatoni: Hot
L. Berio: Folk songs
F. Zappa: Grand Wazoo
The Gumbo variations
B. Eno: Music for airports
Baby's on fire
R. Fripp: 1986
S. Reich: Drumming
P. Glass: Knee play 3 (from Einstein on the beach)
T. Riley: Persian surgery dervishes
Miles Davis: Kind of Blue (full album)
O. Coleman: Something else
C. Parker: Ornitology
Led Zeppelin: Whole lotta love
Meshuggah: Autonomy lost
Pantera: Walk
Radiohead: Karmakoma
T. Yorke: Eraser
King Crimson: Larks' tongues in aspic Part 1
Matching Moles: Gloria gloom
R. Wyatt: Solar flares
The Yes: Close to the edge
Aphex Twin: Jynweythek (from DrukQs)
Autechre: Garbage (full EP)
Bibliography
III. Stoianova, Ivanka. Musique répétitive, in Musique en jeu n°26, èditions de Seuil, Paris
IV. Sciarrino, Salvatore. Le figure della musica, Edizioni Ricordi, Milano 1998
III. Barthes, Roland. Le degré zero de l'écriture, Editions du Seuil, Paris 1956.
IV. Boulez, Pierre. Pensare la musica oggi, Giulio Einaudi Editore, Torino 1979.
VII. Tagg, Philip. la tonalità di tutti i giorni, Il Saggiatore, Milano 2011.
VIII. Cage, John. Silenzio, Shake edizioni, Milano 2010
Assessment methods and Criteria
The oral exam takes place on the course topics, on an analytical study and on the recognition of some pieces of music
Available at the beginning of the course.
Available at the beginning of the course.
L-ART/07 - MUSICOLOGY AND HISTORY OF MUSIC - University credits: 6
Lessons: 45 hours