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Music, Cultures, Media, Performance (Classe LM-45)-Enrolled from Academic Year 2022/2023
Programme description
Optional programme year
Compulsory activity
Courses or activities ECTS Total hours Language Lesson period SSD
English Proficiency B2 (3 ECTS) 3 0 Italian Undefined
a - 9 CFU in one of the following subjects
Courses or activities ECTS Total hours Language Lesson period SSD
Italian Language and Music Lyrics 9 60 Italian First semester L-FIL-LET/12
Spanish Theatre 9 60 Spanish First semester L-LIN/05
Aesthetics of Music and Spectacle 9 60 Italian Second semester M-FIL/04
British Theatre Studies and Performance 9 60 English Second semester L-LIN/10
French Theatre 9 60 Italian Second semester L-LIN/03
German Theatre 9 60 Italian Second semester L-LIN/13
Digital Cultures and Communication Research 9 60 English Second trimester SPS/08
b - 36 CFU across the following subjects (four subjects awarding 9 CFU each)
Courses or activities ECTS Total hours Language Lesson period SSD
Historiography of Music 9 60 Italian First semester L-ART/07
History and Methods of Music Criticism 9 60 Italian First semester L-ART/07
History of Music Theory 9 60 Italian First semester L-ART/07
Music Didactics 9 60 Italian First semester L-ART/07
Anthropology of Music 9 60 Italian Second semester L-ART/08
Musical Philology 9 60 Italian Second semester L-ART/07
Organology 9 60 Italian Second semester L-ART/07
Theory and Methods of Music in Media 9 60 Italian Second semester L-ART/07
c - 18 CFU across the following subjects (two subjects awarding 9 CFU each)
Courses or activities ECTS Total hours Language Lesson period SSD
History of Contemporary Drama 9 60 Italian First semester L-ART/05
Cinema and Cultural Studies 9 60 Italian Second semester L-ART/06
Documentary Cinema 9 60 Italian Second semester L-ART/06
Filmology 9 60 Italian Second semester L-ART/06
Multimedia Dramaturgy 9 60 Italian Second semester L-ART/05
d - 12 CFU across the following subjects (two subjects awarding 6 CFU each)
Courses or activities ECTS Total hours Language Lesson period SSD
Aesthetics of The New Media: Music and Colour 6 40 Italian First semester M-FIL/04
Diplomatics 9 60 Italian First semester M-STO/09
Historiography of Music 9 60 Italian First semester L-ART/07
History and Methods of Music Criticism 9 60 Italian First semester L-ART/07
History of Contemporary Drama 9 60 Italian First semester L-ART/05
History of Music Theory 9 60 Italian First semester L-ART/07
Iconography of Japanese Performative Arts 6 40 Italian First semester L-OR/20
Music and Digital Humanities 6 40 English First semester L-ART/07
Anthropology of Music 9 60 Italian Second semester L-ART/08
Cinema and Cultural Studies 9 60 Italian Second semester L-ART/06
Cultural Anthropology 9 60 Italian Second semester M-DEA/01
Digital Publishing 6 40 Italian Second semester SPS/08
Documentary Cinema 9 60 Italian Second semester L-ART/06
Filmology 9 60 Italian Second semester L-ART/06
History of Radio and Television 9 60 Italian Second semester M-STO/04
Multimedia Dramaturgy 9 60 Italian Second semester L-ART/05
Musical Philology 9 60 Italian Second semester L-ART/07
Photography and New Media in Contemporary Art 9 60 Italian Second semester L-ART/03
Russian Theatre 9 60 Italian Second semester L-LIN/21
Social and Environmental Psychology 9 60 Italian Second semester M-PSI/05
Social History of The Spectacle 9 60 Italian Second semester M-STO/04
Theory and Methods of Music in Media 9 60 Italian Second semester L-ART/07
Visual Culture 6 40 Italian Second semester L-ART/06
Wars of Images 6 40 English Third trimester M-FIL/04
Compositional Analysis 6 45 Italian Undefined L-ART/07
Computer-Based Music Composition 6 45 Italian Undefined L-ART/07
Contemporary Techniques and Compositional Languages 6 45 Italian Undefined L-ART/07
Instrumentation and Orchestration 6 45 Italian Undefined L-ART/07
Music Paleography 6 45 Italian Undefined L-ART/07
Sociology of Music 6 45 Italian Undefined L-ART/07
History of Electroacoustic Music 6 45 Italian L-ART/07
e - Moreover, the student may allocate:
- 9 CFU to other electives chosen from the courses offered by the different faculties of the University of Milan, or to two-year courses, to be agreed with the instructors of any courses taken during the Bachelor's programme.

- 6 CFU to music, theatre and film workshops and internships. (Foreign students must earn 3 CFU by attending a workshop of Italian as a foreign language and pass the B2-level final test).
Courses or activities ECTS Total hours Language Lesson period SSD
Additional Language Skills: Italian (3 ECTS) 3 0 Italian Undefined
f - By the end of the first academic year, the student must agree on the topic of their Master's degree thesis, and discuss electives, with the instructor of a core discipline of the programme.
After earning the required 93 credits, in compliance with these rules, the student may sit the final exam and obtain their Master's degree.
Final activities
Courses or activities ECTS Total hours Language Lesson period SSD
Final Exam 27 0 Italian Undefined