2018/2019

2019/2020

DM270

L-ART/07 (MUSICOLOGY AND MUSIC HISTORY)

DEPARTMENT OF MUSICOLOGY AND CULTURAL HERITAGE

CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE

PERCORSO COMUNE

2°

1st semester (23/09/2019 - 15/01/2020)

6

36 lesson hours

Italian

ORAL TEST

MELINI DONATELLA - 6 ECTS

Basic knowledge of the instruments of Western culture, of geography and of European history in its essential lines from the Middle Ages to the present day.
Similar disciplines such as history of art, history of music, history of musical practice, musical iconography, history of technology, archival research, museology and museography can all be valid supports.

The student will be able to contextualize musical instruments in time and space recognizing their organological characteristics and outlining their historical and cultural ties.
The student will be able, through the study of the different construction practices, to adequately place the instrument in the reference violin making tradition.
The student will be able to face a historical research (using the tools of archival research, musical iconography, literature) to contextualize in a correct and coherent way the musical instruments.
At the end of the course the student will be able to produce scientifically correct texts concerning the history and the organological evolution of the musical instruments of the western tradition.

History of the construction techniques of the various families of bowed and plucked string instruments. The detailed calendar and any additions will be discussed in the introductory lesson and available on Kiro or in the computer available in the library.

During the course frontal lessons will alternate with exercises on a given topic. Active participation during the lessons, the exercises and other activities is strongly recommended in order to facilitate a final evaluation that takes into account the work done by the students during the course.

On the various problems of restoration and collections of musical instruments
- Anna Maramotti Politi-Ravina (ed. by), Fondamenti per lo studio della liuteria – per una metodologia di salvaguardia e restauro dei Beni Liutari, Edizioni la Laguna, Gorizia 2016, second part (“Le scienze umane per la conservazione dei beni liutari”), pp.91-149).

- Poulopoulos Panagiotis, New voices in old bodies: a study of “recycled” music instruments with a focus on the Hahn collection in the Deutsches Museum, 2016, Deutsches Museum Verlag, pp. 67-120 (“Musical Instruments as chancing artefacts”).

- Libin Laurence, Progress, adaption and the evolution of musical instruments, «Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society», 2000, pp.187-213.
On the problems of musical iconography as a source for organology
- Melini Donatella, Iconografia musicale – corsi e percorsi dell’immagine tra arte e musica, «A tutto Arco», 2009, pp.40-45.

- Buckley Ann, Music iconography and the semiotics of visual representations in «Music in Art», 1998, pp.5-10.
On instruments and instruments’ makers
- Tiella Marco, l’Officina di Orfeo. Tecnologia e pratica degli strumenti musicali, Venezia, Il Cardo, 1995.

- Meucci Renato, Strumentaio – il costruttore di strumenti musicali nella tradizione occidentale, Venezia, Marsilio, 2010.

Furthermore, it is essential to consult museum catalogs and technical restoration documentation. The complete list will be available on Kiro.
An additional specific bibliography will be suggested during the lessons. Some articles of particular interest will be available on the Kiro page of the course, along with all the teaching materials and slides of the lessons.

a) Oral presentation in the form of a classroom communication of a detailed organological description of an instrument chosen by the student.
b) The final oral exam will consist of questions that ascertain the achievement of the course objectives. The general methodological part (at least two questions) and the one related to restoration cases (at least two questions) will be the subject of the exam.

For any question of general interest students are invited to use the last 10 minutes of each lesson, however reserved for the verification of what has been presented. For questions of personal nature the student must contact the teacher.