In this page you can find useful materials for the courses I keep in ISSM "P. Mascagni" di Livorno.

Besides to have been holder of the course of General Musical Culture (Complementary Harmony), in these last years my bachelor and master courses have been the following.

For Theory of Harmony and Analysis sector:

• Bachelor:

  • Analysis and Harmony, until the Academic Year 2009-2010: module of 30 hours (only Analysis) for Jazz students

  • Analysis of the Composition Forms, since Academic Year 2010-2011 to 2020-2021, module of 60 hours

  • Fundamentals of Musical Composition I and II, since Academic Year 2011-2012 to 2020-2021, two modules of 30 hours each

  • Performance and control environments for live electronics, since Academic Year 2016-2017, one module of 30 hours

  • Methods for Musical Analysis (Performance Analysis), from Academic Year 2018-19 to 2019-20, one module of 30 hours

• Master:

  • Analysis of the Composition Forms I and II, until Academic Year 2011-2012,  two modules of 25 hours each

  • Advanced Methods for the Analysis of the 20th Century Music I and II, until Academic Year 2011-2012, two modules of 30 hours each

  • Analysis of Composition Forms (contemporary repertoire), from Academic Year 2012-13 to 2016-17,  module of 30 hours

  • Programming Languages for Music Informatics II (module of 15 hours), in Academic Year 2011-2012

  • Methods for Musical Analysis I, from Academic Year 2012-13 to 2021-22, module of 30 hours

For Composition:

• Bachelor: Composition Techniques, from Academic Year 2021-22

  • Instrumentation and Orchestration,  from Academic Year 2021-22

  • Informatic Music Composition,  from Academic Year 2021-22

  • Informatic Musical Composition, from from Academic Year 2021-22

• Master:

  • Composition Techniques, from Academic Year 2020-21

Following are the links to pdf slides relative to single didactic units. Files are protected by a password that is communicated at lesson. They are exclusively for personal use and for relativer courses, they can not be divulgated nor can be used for different aims respect to what previously indicated, without the written authorization by the author. Downloading the file implies the acceptation of these conditions.

• • Guidelines for writing a musical analysis (ITA)

  • Brief Music Analysis's History (ITA)

  • Modern methodologies (ITA)

  • Segmentation (ITA)

  • Thematic and Morphological Analysis (ITA)

  • Functional Theory of Harmony (ITA)

  • Musical Rhetoric (ITA)

  • Semiological Analysis (ITA)

  • Statistical Analysis (ITA)

  • Schenkerian Analysis (ITA)

  • Baroque Sonata (ITA)

  • Baroque Concerto (ITA)

  • Classic Sonata (ITA)

  • Classic Concert (ITA)

  • Suite (ITA)

  • Fugue (TA)

  • Symphony (ITA)

  • The Lied (ITA)

  • Aleatoric Music (ITA)

  • Analysis Methodologies: Performance Analysis (ITA)

  • Pitch-class Set Theory (ITA)

  • Stravinsky, Three Clarinet Pieces, No. 1 (ITA)

  • Pitch-Class Set Genera (ITA)

  • Debussy and the octatonic (ITA)

  • Berio's lied (ITA)

  • Bartók's Musical System (ITA)

  • Bartók's First String quartet: first tempo (ITA)

  • Messiaen's Musical System (ITA)

  • Messiaen: analysis examples (ITA)

  • Scriabin's Op. 74-1 (ITA)

  • Dodecaphony (ITA)

  • Pezzati's Tre fasi (ITA)

  • Contemporary Music examples (ITA)

  • 2 voice Counterpoint (ITA)

  • 3 voice Counterpoint (ITA)

  • Double Counterpoint (ITA)

  • Didactics and Improvisation (ITA)

  • Orff's Instruments (ITA)

  • Orchestration remarks and examples:

    • Igor Stravinsky's Petrushka, Table I (ITA)

    • Krzysztof Penderecki's Trenodia (ITA)

    • Anton Webern, 6 Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 6 (ITA)

    • Claude Debussy, Prélude à l'après midi d'un faune (ITA)

    • Gustav Mahler, Symphony n. 4, last mouvement, until n. 7 (excluded). (ITA)

    • Salvatore Sciarrino, Introduzione all'oscuro, examples (ITA)

  • Performance and control environments for live electronics. (ITA)

  • Suggestions for Music hearing: minimal list of works to listen to, from Renaissance to second half of XXth Century (ITA)

  • Elements of instrumentation (for the first year of Instrumentation and Orchestration course - ITA)

  • Artistic Research (ITA)

  • Modulations in the Bass voice (ITA)

  • Teoria degli insiemi e analisi della musica post-tonale (Pasticci - GATM 1995-1) (ITA)

  • Spectral Music (ITA)

  • Instrumentation and orchestration 1 (ITA)

  • Composing basing on a given theme (ITA)

  • Various texture types analysis: String Quartet (ITA)

  • Informatic Musical Composition 1 (ITA)

  • Informatic Musical Composition 2 (ITA)

  • Xenakis: Aroura (ITA)

  • Ecosistema (appunti di orchestrazione) (ITA)

  • Centroid value tables for instruments

In the bottom of the page you can download:

• Zip archives of courses programs

• A pdf document relative to the list of Music Analysis papers

• The list of Music Rhetoric Figures

• The Musical Harmony exercises for Summer period, for the students of the courses of General Musical Culture (Complementary Harmony) that have finished first year course. The exercises are structured in a progressive manner, one for argument, so that it is possible to revise all what has been studied during the last year. (Course no longer active)

From this link it is possible to download a Zip archive with a multimedia lecture for the old course of General Musical Culture (Complementary Harmony). The archive is protected by a password that is given during the lessons. (language: ITA)

For entering the lectures you must begin clicking the file named "index.html". A html page will open, from which to surf through lecture contents. Alternatively it is possible to copy the content of the folder you create decompressing the archive, on a CD (please, copy the content, not the folder, otherwise CD will not run). You obtain a CD that should auto run opening the Home Page of lectures.

From this link it is possible to download the Zip archive with examples of tests.

If something doesn't run, please, contact me via email.

MACINTOSH USERS: Please, don't use system software for opening .zip archive because it gives you an error. Use Stuffit Expander or similar software, that checks for password and ask you about inserting it.