Teaching Workshop: Listening to Our Time

The workshop, which is organized in collaboration with the "Festival Milano Musica", aims to lead students to become familiar with the active listening, the analysis and the criticism of contemporary music.

At the end of the workshop students have in-depth knowledge of the works and authors encountered as well as of the historical, social and cultural context of their production. Students are also are aware of the main techniques of journalistic writing with attention to music criticism, and are able to recognize specific compositional techniques, forms and styles within the contemporary repertoire, as well as to interpret the creative processes in the light of the poetics and aesthetics involved. Furthermore, students are able to exercise their critical thinking in evaluating the performances they listened to in concerts and to produce a review of a concert taking into account a possible editorial destination and specific editorial needs.