When studying basso continuo practices as historical musicologists or theorists, we usually examine treatises and compare them with the music of ‘great’ composers in order to formulate analysis, reflect on creative processes, or to draw insights for performance practice. However, our knowledge of these practices remains tied to specific exemplary cases, with the risk of ‘incomplete’...
This doctoral dissertation approaches the origins and development of the first saxophone ensembles in Brazil and demonstrates that this process took place through the symbiotic relationship between opera and band repertoires between 1888 and 1938, and served as the mainspring of Brazilian chamber music for this newly invented instrument. The interaction between concert and popular genres in...
Raymond Guiot and Angelo Persichilli are remembered as significant flautists and teachers of the twentieth century in Italy. Research on flute pedagogy during this period has been dominated by a particular focus on France and the Paris Conservatoire, and there is a void of doctoral research on flute pedagogy in Italy during this time. One existing study on Raymond Guiot has a focus on his...
The research analyzes the discourse constructed around the aesthetic trends of the repertoire performed by the Philharmonic and Symphonic Orchestras of Havana during the 1920s, under the direction of Pedro Sanjuán (San Sebastián, 1886–Washington, 1976) and Gonzalo Roig (Havana, July 20, 1890–June 13, 1970), respectively. These orchestras, which were in competition during their early years,...
My dissertation results from a larger four-year collaborative project conducted at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research in Zagreb, Croatia, and funded by the Croatian Science Foundation. The project focused on the first three domestic record companies. The term “domestic” implies the historical context in which Zagreb – the companies’ headquarters – was nested within larger...
From the middle of the eighteenth century to the beginning of the next one, theatre was a mass phenomenon, becoming a social shaping tool for many Enlightenment philosophers. This conception led to a series of ethical and aesthetic controversies on the stage and its music through Hispanic and Portuguese territories. They took place in different spheres: political, religious, administrative and...
El libro de madrigales Armonía Espiritual (Madrid, 1624) del violón de la corte española Stefano Limido (?-1647) contiene once obras en castellano basadas en poemas de temática religiosa de algunos de los escritores más representativos del Siglo de Oro. Tras haber profundizado y analizado el
volumen y explorado su contexto histórico, devocional y musical, se puede afirmar que existe en él una...
The epic poem Erotokritos, composed by Vitsentzos Kornaros in 17th-century Crete, is a key work of Cretan literature. With its 10,012 rhyming fifteen-syllable verses in the local dialect, it tells the story of the love between Erotokritos and Aretousa, exploring themes of honour, friendship, and perseverance. While originally a literary piece, the poem gained renewed life in the 20th century...
Round Table
Dinko Fabris chair
Ramzi Aburedwan (funder of Al Kamandjati, Ramallah)
Felicity Rose Laurence (University of Newcastle)
other
The round table serves as an important step in the research examining world sound and musical cultures from the medieval to modern eras using travel sources. The knowledge about odeporic literature has significantly advanced the historical reconstruction of the musical traditions and auditory ecosystems of cultures that did not transmit their musical heritage to us via systematic notation. It...
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La preservació de les denominades “músiques de tradició oral” ha sigut possible, en part, gràcies a la presència que encara hi ha en el passat de moltes societats de materials tradicionals que romanen disponibles per emprar-se en la pràctica musical contemporània (Hobsbawm, 1983). Alhora, la digitalització i la globalització han permés repensar les formes de...
From the conquest of the Americas and the establishment of the viceroyalty system, commercial, migratory, and cultural processes were altered, a phenomenon commonly referred to as an early form of globalization. This led to the emergence of new dynamics that not only connected Europe and the Mediterranean world with the Americas but also, from the very beginning, fostered exchanges and...
