Enhancement and strengthening of musicological skills, with particular reference to the history of Western music, as well as Popular music and World music, through the use of analytical and critical methodologies. Strengthening skills in ethnomusicology, and music in cinema, in techniques and media for the production and diffusion of sounds.

Expected learning outcomes:

1) Know the main characteristics of the history of music and understand its diachronic development; learn the debates that have characterized musicology (since 1881 onwards)
2) Know how to analyze the history of music; know how to comment on the debates of the discipline with musicological terms
3) Know how to formulate independent judgments on the course topics
4) Knowing how to communicate what has been learned appropriately
5) Know how to interpret musical phenomena not included in the program