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Group behaviour and interpersonal synchronization to electronic dance music
2017
The present study investigates how people move and relate to each other – and to the dance music – in a club-like setting created within a motion capture laboratory. Three groups of participants (29 in total) each danced to a 10-minute-long DJ mix consisting of four tracks of electronic dance music (EDM). Two of the EDM tracks had little structural development, while the two others included a typical “break routine” in the middle of the track, consisting of three distinct passages: (a) “breakdown”, (b) “build-up” and (c) “drop”. The motion capture data show similar bodily responses for all three groups in the break routines: a sudden decrease and increase in the general quantity of motion.…
The phantoms of the opera—Stress offstage and stress onstage
2021
During opera performance singers deliver vocally demanding roles, follow a conductor, portray emotions of a musical work, act, dance, and engage with costumes, sets and props before an audience. Hence, opera performance is a stressful experience. This study examined different types of stress experiences by measuring the trajectories of 10 opera trainees’ heart rate variability (HRV) during two performances, covering onstage and offstage periods. We explored connections between HRV, self-reported stress measures, and expert-rated difficulty of the performed roles. We discovered that opera trainees had lower HRV and thus experienced greater physiological stress, while onstage compared to off…
Embodiment in Electronic Dance Music: Effects of musical content and structure on body movement
2018
Electronic dance music (EDM) is music produced with the foremost aim to make people move. While research has revealed relationships between movement features and, for example, musical, emotional, or personality characteristics, systematic investigations of genre differences and specifically of EDM are rather rare. This article aims at offering insights into the embodiment of EDM from three different angles: first from a genre-comparison perspective, then by comparing different EDM stimuli with each other, and finally by investigating embodiments in one specific EDM stimulus. Sixty participants moved freely to 16 stimuli of four different genres (EDM, Latin, Funk, Jazz – four stimuli/genre)…
«Siamo italiani! Vogliam cose ispirate!» La stampa italiana dinanzi alla Muette de Portici (1832-1846)
2021
Questo articolo prende in esame l’atteggiamento della stampa italiana nei confronti della Muette de Portici di Auber in occasione di alcune rappresentazioni di quest’opera tra il 1832 – data della prima rappresentazione italiana – ed il 1846. In particolare verranno considerate le prime di Trieste, Venezia e Bologna e gli articoli apparsi su «Censore universale dei teatri», «Gazzetta privilegiata di Venezia» e sul giornale satirico bolognese «La Farfalla».
Della musica e delle parole
2018
This article explores the relations between music and poetry, starting form Rousseau's theory of the origin of languages. Two main distinctions are considered: when poetry is written before music, and when music is written before poetry. "Non più andrai farfallone amoroso" by Daponte and Mozart is examined as an example of the first strategy; "Yesterday" by Paul McCartney as an example of the second one.
Varietà dialoganti: le varie musiche di "Curva minore"
2009
Recensione di Alfonso Alberti, Le Sonate di Claude Debussy. Contesto, testo, interpretzione, Lucca, 2008 e di Marianne Wheeldone, Debussy's Late Styl…
2010
L'articolo recensisce due volumi di grande interesse per la comprensione della musica dell'ultimo periodo compositivo di Claude Debussy.
Storia d'altre storie. Le avanguardie del secondo dopoguerra e "Jeux" di Debussy
2007
La composizione "Jeux" di Debussy, trascurata nella prima metà del Novecento, diventa nel corso degli anni Cinquanta un banco di prova delle teorie compositive dei protagonisti delle avanguardie musicali del dopoguerra, ognuno dei quali, proprio in base alle personali concezioni estetiche, dà una dell'opera del compositore francese una lettura fortemente divergente dalle altre.
PIRACY REVISITED: EXPLORING MUSIC USERS IN THE AGE OF TECHNOLOGY DEPENDENCY
2019
This paper empirically investigates and characterizes users of recorded music, both downloaders and purchasers. To this end we analyse the role of the variables defining the different segments of music users. In doing so, we have considered two main traits influencing the use of music. First, objective variables such as demographics, music consumption habits, music genres and technology. Second, subjective variables such as motives and attitudes towards piracy. Using data from a personal survey, subsequent latent class and fuzzy analyses show that while the former characteristics are relevant in those getting music for free from the Internet, the latter don´t pay any special part, contrary …
Researching ensemble teachers’ assessment criteria and values from a dialogical theoretical perspective
2009
Since the beginning of the 1980s, playing in pop ensembles and rock ensembles has been an integrated part of both Swedish music teacher education and the Swedish national curricula for music. However, there is little research on ensemble playing and teaching in Swedish schools, and even less so on the assessment and the criteria for assessment of this practice. The aim of my PhD project is to investigate what values music teachers in focus groups express and what criteria they base their judgements on when they comment on and discuss video excerpts from ensemble classes. This paper, however, focuses on the method of analysis: a discourse analytical method that is informed by a dialogical th…