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Canzoni in concorso nella Palermo di fine secolo
2015
L'articolo si occupa del concorso "per la canzone siciliana" bandito nel 1891 a Palermo da Tina Withaker Scalia con la collaborazione di Giorgio Miclei. Nella prima parte viene presentato un sintetico bilancio dei precedenti non siciliani del concorso nell'Italia post-unitaria, e nella seconda vengono analizzate in dettaglio le due canzoni vincitrici.
«Bella mia fiamma, addio / Resta, o cara» tra Jommelli e Mozart: osservazioni e ipotesi sull’aria K. 528
2012
Mozart wrote the scena and aria K. 528 in Prague in 1787 for the singer Josepha Duschek. As previously known, this wonderful page is based on a text taken from “Cerere placata”, a “festa teatrale” created in Naples in 1772 by the man of letters and scientist Michele Sarcone and the renowned “maestro di cappella” Niccolò Jommelli to celebrate the birth of the first daughter of king Ferdinand IV of Bourbon. The article reconstructs in detail the circumstances of the Neapolitan performance, and shows that Jommelli’s setting of Titano’s recitative and aria “Bella mia fiamma, addio” / “Resta, o cara; acerba morte” enjoyed a large success and circulated as an autonomous piece. A comparison betwee…
«Nozze» napoletane. «La serva onorata» di Giambattista Lorenzi e Nicolò Piccinni (1792)
2012
Nel 1792 il teatro napoletano dei Fiorentini ospitò la prima rappresentazione di una nuova opera comica di Giambattista Lorenzi e Niccolò Piccinni: «La serva onorata». Il libretto era in realtà una libera rielaborazione delle «Nozze di Figaro» di Da Ponte per Mozart. Il saggio avanza alcune ipotesi circa l'arrivo del testo nella capitale meridionale e procede poi a un dettagliato esame delle manipolazioni subite dal modello viennese, che risulta omologato alle convenzioni estetiche e produttive locali. Particolare attenzione viene riservata al ruolo degli interpreti napoletani, che con le proprie caratteristiche condizionano vistosamente il processo di adattamento. In chiusura vengono propo…
Sublime, corsetti, e ragtime. Woody Allen e Gustav Mahler
2022
L'articolo esamina la relazione tra la musica di Mahler e il cinema nel caso di Woody Allen. Come è noto, nei suoi film il regista statunitense mette in primo piano la musica in molti modi. Ad esempio in "Un'altra donna" (1988) la Sinfonia n. 4 gioca un importante ruolo intra-diegetico che va oltre la semplice funzione informativa relativa all'ambiente sociale della protagonista. La musica di Mahler compare anche in altri film, ma in prospettiva più ampia agisce da elemento focale nella poetica di Allen. Attraverso l'analisi di alcune scene, si approfondisce la natura del rapporto tra Allen e Mahler e in che senso tale rapporto costituisce un caso assolutamente positivo di "ricezione mahler…
Mahler and Film: The Case of Woody Allen
2013
This paper will examine the relationship between Mahler and ‘moving image’ in the case of Woody Allen. As we know, the American director has a long-standing love affair with classical music. His films foreground music in many and interesting ways. One example can be found in "Another Woman" (1988). Here the Symphony No. 4 by Mahler plays an intra-diegetic role, but it goes beyond the simple ‘informative function’ about the social milieu of the main character. Mahler’s music appears also in other films, but in a wider perspective it operates as a focal point of most of Allen’s filmography. Through the comparative analysis between emblematic scenes, I’ll try to explain the particular nature o…
Modelling and prediction of perceptual segmentation
2017
While listening to music, we somehow make sense of a multiplicity of auditory events; for example, in popular music we are often able to recognize whether the current section is a verse or a chorus, and to identify the boundaries between these segments. This organization occurs at multiple levels, since we can discern motifs, phrases, sections and other groupings. In this work, we understand segment boundaries as instants of significant change. Several studies on music perception and cognition have strived to understand what types of changes are associated with perceptual structure. However, effects of musical training, possible differences between real-time and non real-time segmentation, and…
La voce di Yvette
2018
The essay is dedicated to the voice of Yvette Guilbert. Two songs that were in her repertoire are analyzed: "Partie Carrée" et "D'elle à lui". The last part is dedicated to a correspondence between Yvette Guilbert and Sigmund Freud, about the art of the performance.
"Zanetti, Gerolamo"
2008
Biografia, opere, stile
On listening to atonal variants of two Piano Sonatas by Beethoven
2009
International audience; We investigated the contribution of tonal relationships to the perception of musical ideas and to the feelings of "arousal." Two excerpts of piano sonatas by Beethoven and two atonal variants were used as experimental stimuli. This manipulation destroyed the tonal relationships but preserved both the local and global temporal organization (rhythm and formal). Listeners were asked to indicate the onset of musical ideas, to estimate the arousing properties of the music in a continuous response task, and to rate the similarity of the pieces. A drastic change in the pitch structure strongly affected judgments of similarity. However, it had no effect on the segmentation o…
Topo-analyse de la musique mixte
2017
National audience; The purpose of this article is to pursue a semiotic approach to mixed music already outlined in some writings. After having developed a theoretical model capable of synthesizing the possible concert apparatus and defining the functions of the various protagonists, this article attempts, on the one hand, to establish a typology of the main relational strategies between instrumental and electronics observed in the repertoire and, on the other hand, to develop an analysis method using the topics. Relational strategies are approached with the concept of topic, defined as an imaginary place to articulate potential contents and unify them within an identifiable theme. In the re…