Alla scoperta del ‘Clavicembalo ben temperato’ tra testi e paratesti

Abstract

This teaching program focuses on the first book of J. S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, on the 300th anniversary of its completion, and is aimed primarily at the third and fourth grades of Liceo musicale (Music High School). The first part focuses on the study of the textual sources and the autograph title page, commenting on the historical, organological, didactic and aesthetic references. The second part deals with the study of the first two Preludes and Fugues in C major and C minor: using techniques borrowed from the didactics of listening, students are introduced to an in-depth understanding of the two forms, and learn to identify the rhetorical-compositional models that define them. Finally, guidelines are proposed for developing activities in an informal setting of music dissemination. The program adopts the models of integrated didactics, and sees the participation of a Music History teacher alongside the Music Theory and Analysis teacher, as well as the other teachers in the course.