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Monteverdi in the garden: L'Incoronazione di Poppea in Fascist Florence
2022
On June 3, 1937, in the amphitheatre of the Boboli Gardens in Florence, L’incoronazione di Poppea by Claudio Monteverdi was performed by an ensemble of remarkable artists. It was the first stage performance of the opera in Italy in modern times. This article aims to reconstruct the historical context and details of this performance, which can be considered emblematic in many ways of the reception of ancient music in Italy in those years. In the first part I will discuss this performance in the context of Fascist Florence, showing how it served to celebrate Florence’s cultural primacy. In the second part, I will deal with L'incoronazione's prior performances in Italy and abroad. In the third…
Enhancing genre-based measures of music preference by user-defined liking and social tags
2012
Musical preferences are typically determined by asking participants to indicate their favourite musical genres. These genre-based measures have some considerable pitfalls, since specific pieces of music in a genre might be liked more than the genre itself, and finding consensus to define a genre is often a challenging task. The aims of the present study were to (1) assess how effective genre-based measures are at identifying musical preferences, by comparing them to free responses; (2) demonstrate how the fit can be improved between the genre-based measures and sampled population; and (3) suggest and evaluate methods that use lists of liked and disliked artists to define musical preference…
Incardona, o della marginalità attiva
2012
Il mito di Fedra tra Seneca, d'Annunzio e Pizzetti.
2012
Analisi di alcuni aspetti del mito di Fedra nelle sue riprese letterarie post-euripidee (Seneca, D'Annunzio)e nella moderna opera lirica (Pizzetti)
Musica, architettura e arti figurative nella Palermo di Giacomo Amato
2017
Il contributo ripercorre le occasioni d'incontro tra la musica, l'architettura e le arti figurative negli anni in cui l'architetto Giacomo Amato fu attivo a Palermo, dal ritorno da Roma nel 1684 al 1732, data della sua morte. Si discute l'attività di Amato in due specifici campi connessi alla musica: da una parte scenografie e costumi per rappresentazioni legate alla committenza vicereale; dall'altra apparati per celebrazioni religiose non liturgiche quali le Quarant'ore o il Corpus Domini. Il suo apporto viene considerato in raffronto con la produzione simile di altri centri italiani, nel quadro della vita musicale dell'epoca.
SINGING THE SELF: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE FIFTEENTH-CENTURY GERMAN SINGER AND COMPOSER JOHANNES VON SOEST
2010
The German singer, composer and writer Johannes von Soest (1448–1506), also referred to as Steinwart or Steinwert, is the author of a vernacular autobiography in verse. One of the very few such documents written by a musician, it gives a highly personal insight into his career, which extended from his training as a chorister in Soest to the ducal chapel in Cleves and afterwards to Bruges (in the company of two unnamed English musicians), Aardenburg (Overijssel), Maastricht, possibly Cologne, Kassel and finally Heidelberg, where he was appointed as Kapellmeister. He subsequently decided to become a physician. The article includes a complete transcription of the text, whose original was destr…
Music, Architecture, Proportion and the Renaissance Way of Thinking
2020
During the Renaissance, the language of proportion became a unified theory capable of encompassing the understanding of the world within a coherent theological, philosophical and artistic framework. Music, with its harmonic paradigm, plays a key role in this construction. From the fifteenth century through to the end of the sixteenth century, architects and architectural theorists made reference, both in new treatises and commentaries to Vitruvius, to musical matters, transforming architecture into the summa of knowledge. The affinity to music was grounded on both a common mathematical and rhetoric gnosiology. Formerly conceived of as ideal, numbers became eloquent, reinforcing the quantita…
Due volti della notte. Su Arthur Schopenhauer e Richard Wagner
2016
Il saggio prende le mosse dalla concezione dell'arte espressa da Arthur Schopenhauer nel "Mondo come volontà e rappresentazione" (1818; IIa ed. 1844), soffermandosi in maniera particolare sul Capitolo 52 e sull'idea di un'interpretazione metafisica della musica. Tale ipotesi viene messa in rapporto con l'esperienza compositiva di Richard Wagner a partire dalla concezione del "Ring des Nibelungen" e con particolare riferimento al linguaggio armonico di "Tristan und isolde". In nota viene riportato il frammento di una lettera di Richard Wagner ad Arthur Schopenhauer, databile intorno al 1857.
Cinque piccoli saggi sulla "Carmen" di Bizet
1996
Il saggio si costituisce di cinque sezioni o capitoli che investono altrettanti aspetti della genesi e della struttura teatrale/musicale della "Carmen" di Bizet: dall'entusiasmo dell'ultimo Nietzsche per l'opera del compositore francese fino alla fonte letteraria e alla drammaturgia dello spettacolo e agli eventi legati alla prima rappresentazione e alla morte del compositore.
Adeus a Georges Moustaki
2013
Lembro-me de momentos felizes, no nosso apartamento do Rio, na Equitativa, em Santa Teresa: os raios do sol que, das janelas, batiam nas paredes brancas, numa atmosfera ao mesmo tempo fresca e quente; eu desenhando em papéis, paredes, capas de LPs, quadro negro, cada traço representando para mim uma primeira idéia de luto, pois sabia que estes desenhos desapareceriam logo e para sempre.