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De Musica Disserenda, XII/1, 2016: Nineteenth-Century Music in Central Europe: Paradigms and Popular Canon
2016
Nations and nationalism have been a main research topic for decades, but the last few years have witnessed noticeable growth in these studies. The perspective generally accepted in the humanities – that demands for political independence of the nations in nineteenth-century Central Europe were premised on a sense of cultural identity – has also been taken up by contemporary musicological thought. Essays by philosopher and social anthropologist Ernest Gellner on “invented nations” in Nations and Nationalism (1983), or by historian and political scientist Benedict Anderson on “imagined communities” in Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (1991), supported …
Musical Competition Culture in 19th Century Italy. The Concorso Basevi (Florence) and the Circolo Bonamici (Naples)
2021
Musical competitions played an important function in Italian musical culture of the 19th century. Florence and Naples offer two interesting examples in this field. In the Tuscan city, Abramo Basevi (1818-1885) established an annual composition competition specially dedicated to chamber music, which reached great popularity throughout Europe; the “Concorso Basevi” took place six times starting from 1861. In Naples Ferdinando Bonamici (1827-1905) showed more varied interests and organized not only composition but also performance competitions between 1863 and 1865. Both experiences, based on individual or small group initiatives, were undoubtedly fragile, but they contributed significantly to…
'Opera e declamazione teatrale in Italia nel Diciottesimo secolo. Convergenze e problemi'
2014
The fulfilment of the operatic reform, managed by Christoph Willibald Gluck and his librettist Ranieri Calzabigi in 1760s’ Vienna, is a well-known topic. This event, whose seeds date back to the 1740s, has been examined according to theatrical and literary experiences in France and Italy. However, the question of acting influence on opera can be reconsidered at the light of the latest discovery of symbols collected and labelled as drammatica – metodo italiano. Engraved in some writings, this set of signs is often connected to music and offers the matter for a new critical survey about the discourse on music declamation before and after Calzabigi. From the 1830s onwards the theory of acting …
Theodor W. Adorno e il concetto di seconda natura nel Doktor Faustus di Thomas Mann
2018
“Doktor Faustus” of Thomas Mann, as explained by its author, is a novel on German civilization in which music plays the role of paradigm. Nevertheless the author grasps a lot of quotations from different disciplines and topics, ― e.g., theology, policy, philosophy, music, chemistry ― with the aim of depicting the creation of a second nature in music according the rules of twelve-note composition established by Arnold Schoenberg. The starting point of this complicated narrative is the reinterpretation of Theodor W. Adorno’s “Philosophie der neuen Musik”, a book that inspired Mann in tracing the idea of “second nature” created by the composer Adrian Leverkühn. The article focuses on some keyw…
FOREWORD a Musicologie sans frontières/Muzikologija bez granice/Musicology without frontiers. Essays in Honour of Stanislav Tuksar
2010
La vita e l'opera di Stanislav Tuksar e il suo contributo alla musicologia internazionale. In particolare gli studi di estetica della musica e di storiografia, nonché il suo lavoro di editor della "International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music" e i saggi importanti sul rapporto tra le culture nazionali e il cosmopolitismo nell'Europa centrale, in relazione alla Croazia e agli Slavi del Sud dal sedicesimo al diciannovesimo secolo.
I suoni di Amelia
2008
Amelia Rosselli (1930-1996) è stata una delle voci più originali della poesia italiana del secondo dopoguerra. La sua prima vocazione fu quella musicale, cui dovette rinunciare per un combinato di eventi; ma la musica è rimasta un continuo riferimento in tutta la sua produzione poetica. Il saggio inizialmente ricostruisce la formazione e la produzione critica in campo musicale di Amelia Rosselli, per poi identificare nella sua poesia la cifra squisitamente musicale.
"Saliamoci sopra e voliamo via..." Percorsi di Beni Montresor e Philip Glass verso "Le Streghe di Venezia" (1994-2009)
2016
Il saggio delinea i percorsi creativi di Philip Glass a partire dall'inizio dalla fine degli anni Sessanta, con particolare riferimento alle opere o spettacoli di teatro musicale. Nella seconda parte vengono descritti l'eperienza biografica e artistica di Beni Montresor, nonché la genesi e i caratteri musicali dell'opera in due atti "The Witches of Venice" (Le Streghe di Venezia, 1994-2009), presentata al Teatro Massimo di Palermo nella versione che include anche i testi di Vincenzo Cerami.
Il caso Webern. Ricostruzione di un delitto
2021
La sera del 15 settembre 1945, a guerra ormai conclusa, il compositore Anton Webern fu assassinato da un cuoco dell'esercito americano. Le circostanze del delitto sono rimaste in parte senza spiegazione e proiettano un'ombra sulla biografia di Webern nel suo complesso. Il libro traccia un profilo biografico del compositore, con particolare riferimento agli ultimi anni della sua vita e mistero della sua morte. On the evening of September 15, 1945, when the war was over, the composer Anton Webern was assassinated by a cook of the American occupation army. The circumstances of the crime remain in some respects unsolved and cast a shadow over Webern's biography as a whole. The book is a portrai…
Voce “Il Verso, Antonio”
2018
Musica e sociabilità nelle lettere di Antonio di Gennaro a Giovanni Cristofano Amaduzzi
2016
The Neapolitan man of letters Antonio di Gennaro Duke of Belforte (1717-1791) had a lenghty exchange of letters with Giovanni Cristofano Amaduzzi (1740-1792) starting from 1778; the contact between the two, who never met in person, was facilitated by Aurelio de’ Giorgi Bertola (1753-1798). The paper provides a short profile of Belforte, and describes his constant interest in music as well as his occasional activity as a librettist. Belforte's letters to Amaduzzi, still unpublished, are examined in order to collect information on the performances – in the court, theater or academy – he attended. The selected data not only offer valuable details and judgments about composers and compositions, b…