Search results for "MuSICA"

Morlacchismo, illirismo, involuzioni esotiche. L’immagine degli slavi del sud nel teatro e nella musica dell’Ottocento in Italia/Morlakizem, ilirizem…

2014

Alberto Fortis’ Viaggio in Dalmazia (Venice, 1774) described for the first time the Morlacks of the interior of Dalmatia as the true model of a primitive group, whose characteristics became an exotic source of inspiration for some Italian writers and ballet composers until 1830s. Contemporaneously, the Homer’s paradigm was introduced by Melchiorre Cesarotti in the foreword joined to the Italian version of the poems of “Ossian” (1763), and it was in turn transformed by the composer and doctor of Split Giulio Bajamonti. Even though published in Italian, Bajamonti’s Morlacchismo d’Omero (Venice, 1797) can be considered the first contribution to the romantic Croatian literature. The essay of Ba…

Musical Parameters and Children's Movement Responses

2009

The effects of dynamic musical parameters (e.g., pitch rise/fall, crescendo/diminuendo) on aspects of bodily motion, such as spatial directions or speed, have recently been investigated empirically, as Eitan & Granot (2006) examined, using participants' verbal reports, how such relationships affect motion imagery. Here we examine the effects of musical parameters on actual bodily movement. 106 children (46 aged 5, 60 aged 8) heard 9 short musical stimuli (4 synthetically constructed, 5 excerpts from classical repertory) involving bi-directional changes in pitch, loudness and tempo. Participants were asked to move to each excerpt in an "appropriate way." Movement responses were videotaped, a…

2021

Background and objectives Music has a unique capacity to evoke both strong emotions and vivid autobiographical memories. Previous music information retrieval (MIR) studies have shown that the emotional experience of music is influenced by a combination of musical features, including tonal, rhythmic, and loudness features. Here, our aim was to explore the relationship between music-evoked emotions and music-evoked memories and how musical features (derived with MIR) can predict them both. Methods Healthy older adults (N = 113, age ≥ 60 years) participated in a listening task in which they rated a total of 140 song excerpts comprising folk songs and popular songs from 1950s to 1980s on five …

AMP: Artist-based Musical Preferences Derived from Free Verbal Responses and Social Tags

2011

Operational definitions of music preferences are at the core of psychological research exploring individual differences (personality, expertise) and their relation to a variety of musical behaviors. However, the measurement instruments for music preferences mostly rely on subjective likings for genres, a notion known to be problematic in several ways. We present a framework to derive music preferences based on free responses about liked and disliked artists. The framework utilizes social tags and online databases to aggregate comparable data to the existing genre-based measures. This framework was tested in a sample of 408 participants, who indicated their musical preferences using a genre-…

Cambiamento e continuità: i manoscritti del fondo musicale del duomo di Enna

2018

Dal Cinquecento fino agli inizi del Novecento la vita musicale a Enna – cittadina al centro della Sicilia – fu caratterizzata da particolare vivacità. Ciò si dovette soprattutto all'attività della sua più importante istituzione religiosa, la cappella musicale del Duomo, che impiegava un numero stabile di musicisti, per la maggior parte siciliani, ma anche stranieri. Fu soprattutto nel Settecento che molti di loro giunsero a Enna da Napoli, il più prestigioso centro musicale dell'epoca. Vi troviamo virtuosi cantori e strumentisti, ma anche compositori come Luigi Platone o Giuseppe Coppola, entrambi giunti in Sicilia alla fine del secolo e divenuti maestri dell'istituzione. La prolifica attiv…

El nacimiento de la historiografia musical en Italia durante la segunda mitad del siglo XIX y los problemas del metodo historico

2015

The article explains the role, the scope and the methods of the 19th-Century music historiography in Italy in comparison to positivism, which fostered a scientific methodology to reshape history of arts and literature. Aiming to discover the value and the ideal place of musical oeuvre, some historiographers described the periodization by means of different paradigms and philosophies, drawn from the theory of evolution of Darwin and Spencer, and the positivism of Hyppolite Taine. Some essays, such as "L’evoluzione nella musica" (1898, 1911 enlarged ed.) and the monograph "Riccardo Wagner" (1890), written by Oscar Chilesotti and Luigi Torchi, are examined at the light of those philosophies. I…

Introduzione

2005

The Introductory word explains the role and scope of music historiography during the second half of 19th-Century Italy. At that time, historiographers were oriented to discover the value and the ideal place of musical oeuvre, rethinking music periodization through different paradigms and philosophies.

Tempo congelato e musica in 'Sussurri e grida' di Ingmar Bergman

2016

Il contributo intende offrire alcuni spunti di indagine sul rapporto fra Bergman e la musica, focalizzandosi sul film "Sussurri e grida" del 1972 e allargandosi a una meditazione più ampia incentrata sulla presenza di alcune tematiche ricorrenti (l'infanzia, la morte, il ricordo). A fungere da 'trait d’union' è la concezione del tempo che Bergman elabora all’interno del film e che assume particolare rilievo alla luce del ruolo che vi ricopre la "Mazurka in La minore op. 17 n. 4" di Chopin.

La creazione del Conservatorio di Palermo tra Sei e Settecento

2022

Questo contributo ripercorre alcune delle tappe più significative della vita del conservatorio di Palermo tra Sei e Settecento a partire da due momenti fondativi: il primo è la creazione dell'istituzione nel 1617 col nome di “Conservatorio dei dispersi”; il secondo la trasformazione in conservatorio di musica vero e proprio nel 1747, sotto il titolo del “Buon Pastore”. In particolare verranno tratteggiate le figure dei due viceré responsabili di questi eventi, Francisco Ruiz conte di Castro e Bartolomeo Corsini. Inoltre si esaminerano i "capitoli" (regolamenti) emanati tra Sei e Settecento con particolare riferimento alle notizie sull'attività musicale. This essay traces some of the most si…

Scenografie del sacro: Convent Theatre and Music in Palermo, 1650-1750

From the second half of the seventeenth century, Palermo’s convents contributed to the musical framework of the city through the performance of musical plays, oratorios, feste teatrali and other similar works. It is known that since the Cinquecento, as well as contributing music to sacred services, female communities employed music to enrich and ornament their entertainments. With the emergence of the typically Baroque taste for astonishment, music began to play a more prominent role, becoming one of the most important elements in convent theatre. The nuns often took part in public performances, during which they sang and played musical instruments, thereby confirming that convent life was …