The degree program

School: Lute School

Department : Department of Plucked and Bowed String Instruments

A1 - Course title : Course of First Level Academic Degree (Bachelor Degree) in Lute

Educational goals

On completion of their First Level Academic Degree in Lute, students will have acquired technical knowledge and specific skills to enable them to bring their own artistic ideas to practical fruition.
To this end, the course will focus on the most representative instrumental repertoire – including ensemble music – and on the related performance practices also for the purpose of developing the student’s ability to interact within different kinds of musical ensembles.
Such goals will also be achieved by fostering the development of aural perception and memorization
as well as by acquiring specific knowledge concerning organizational, compositional and analytical
music models and their interaction.
Specific care will be devoted to learning adequate postural and emotional control techniques.
At the end of the three-year course, students will have acquired in-depth knowledge of both general
and specific stylistic, historical and aesthetic aspects in relation to their own field of study.
Moreover, in regard to the specific nature of each single course, students will be required to possess
appropriate skills relating to improvisation. A further educational goal is the acquisition of suitable
computer music abilities as well as competence in a second EU foreign language.

Employment prospects

The course provides students with the opportunity to work in the following fields:
– solo performance
– chamber orchestra performance
– orchestra performance
– theatre music orchestra performance
– basso continuo player for chamber music repertoire and theatre music
– rehearsal master for pre-classic repertoire singers

Study Plan

Type of educational activitySubject areaCodeSubjectCredits (CFA)Teaching hours/Personal studyingOptional/MandatoryTeaching methodAssessment criteria
First year total credits (CFA): 60
Basic ActivitiesTheory-Analysis-PracticeCOTP/06Ear training - 1225/25
50.00%
MandatoryCollective coursesExam
Basic ActivitiesTheory-Analysis-PracticeCOTP/06
Music semiography525/100
20.00%
MandatoryCollective coursesExam
Basic ActivitiesMusicologyCODM/04Music history and historiography - 1525/100
20.00%
MandatoryCollective coursesExam
Core ActivitiesEarly music performanceCOMA/02Performance practice and repertoires - 11727/398
6.00%
MandatoryIndividual lessonsExam
Core ActivitiesEnsemble performanceCOMI/07Ensemble music for voices and early music instruments - 1525/100
20.00%
MandatoryGroup lessonsExam
Core ActivitiesEarly music performanceCOMA/02Basso continuo practice on the instruments - 1415/85
15.00%
MandatoryGroup lessonsQualifying examination
Core ActivitiesEarly music performanceCOMA/02Improvisation and ornamentation on the instrument - 1320/55
27.00%
MandatoryGroup lessonsQualifying examination
Supplementary ActivitiesEnsemble performanceCOMI/01
Vocal ensemble music and choral repertoire340/35
53.00%
MandatoryCollective coursesQualifying examination
Supplementary ActivitiesSacred music performanceCOMS/01Contrapuntal techniques - 1530/95
24.00%
MandatoryGroup lessonsQualifying examination
Supplementary ActivitiesEducationCODD/07Physiopathology of instrumental/vocal performance215/35
30.00%
MandatoryCollective coursesQualifying examination
Free-Choice Activities6Mandatory
Final examination related activities and foreign language knowledgeLanguagesCODL/02EU forein language320/55
27.00%
MandatoryCollective coursesExam
Second year total credits (CFA): 60
Basic ActivitiesTheory-Analysis-PracticeCOTP/06Ear training - 2225/25
50.00%
MandatoryGroup lessonsExam
Basic ActivitiesMusicologyCODM/04Music history and historiography - 2525/100
20.00%
MandatoryCollective coursesExam
Basic ActivitiesMusicologyCODM/01Bibliographic research tools and methods527/98
22.00%
MandatoryCollective coursesExam
Basic ActivitiesEarly music performanceCOMA/15Performance practice and repertoires515/110
12.00%
MandatoryGroup lessonsQualifying examination
Core ActivitiesEarly music performanceCOMA/02Performance practice and repertoires - 21730/395
7.00%
MandatoryIndividual lessonsExam
Core ActivitiesEarly music performanceCOMA/02Basso continuo practice on the instruments - 2425/75
25.00%
MandatoryGroup lessonsQualifying examination
Core ActivitiesCompositionCODC/01Composition techniques318/57
24.00%
MandatoryIndividual lessonsExam
Core ActivitiesEarly music performanceCOMA/02Improvisation and ornamentation on the instrument - 2215/35
30.00%
MandatoryGroup lessonsQualifying examination
Core ActivitiesEnsemble performanceCOMI/07Ensemble music for voices and early music instruments - 2525/100
20.00%
MandatoryGroup lessonsExam
Supplementary ActivitiesSacred music performanceCOMS/01Contrapuntal techniques - 2530/95
24.00%
MandatoryGroup lessonsExam
Free-Choice Activities7Mandatory
Third year total credits (CFA): 60
Basic ActivitiesMusicologyCODM/04History of music theory and treatis425/75
25.00%
MandatoryCollective coursesExam
Basic ActivitiesMusicologyCODM/04History of musical forms and repertoires425/75
25.00%
MandatoryCollective coursesExam
Core ActivitiesEarly music performanceCOMA/02Performance practice and repertoires - 31727/398
6.00%
MandatoryIndividual lessonsExam
Core ActivitiesEnsemble performanceCOMI/07Ensemble music for voices and early music instruments - 3525/100
20.00%
MandatoryGroup lessonsExam
Core ActivitiesEarly music performanceCOMA/02Literature of the instrument315/60
20.00%
MandatoryGroup lessonsExam
Core ActivitiesTheory-Analysis-PracticeCOTP/05Renaissance and Baroque singing repertoire practice and repetition425/75
25.00%
MandatoryGroup lessonsExam
Core ActivitiesEarly music performanceCOMA/02Basso continuo practice on the instruments - 3215/35
30.00%
MandatoryGroup lessonsQualifying examination
Supplementary ActivitiesElectronic music and sound technologyCOME/05Computer music318/57
24.00%
MandatoryCollective coursesQualifying examination
Supplementary ActivitiesSacred music performanceCOMS/01Contrapuntal techniques - 3515/110
12.00%
MandatoryGroup lessonsExam
Free-Choice Activities5Mandatory
Final Examination8Mandatory