Opera, evento e storytelling. Costruire la Storia attraverso la musica d’arte

Abstract

The article addresses current aspects of teaching and learning music history in Italian secondary schools. It focuses on the contents and methods for the transposition of historical-musical knowledge in connection with a model for music education inspired by the idea of music as culture. Secondly, it proposes an example of didactic transposition of a piece from the melodrama I Puritani (1835) composed by Vincenzo Bellini, libretto by Carlo Pepoli: «Suoni la tromba e intrepido» from the Giorgio-Riccardo duet «Il rival salvar tu dei» (Act II, scene 4). The inter-disciplinary approach to the study of this piece is in two steps: the first is teaching how to listen, the second is the shift from listening didactics to music history.

Keywords

• didattica della storia della musica
• musica come cultura
• duetto
• i puritani
• storytelling