Description
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 years teaching in Paris, and there is no known research study on Angelo Persichilli. My doctoral thesis aims to correct this imbalance by providing an examination of the contribution of both flautists, particularly during the period in which they delivered three-year examined courses at the Accademia italiana del flauto (AIF) in Rome. My thesis examines forgotten Italian flautists who have unfortunately been overshadowed by research on other contemporary flautists of their time. Due to the lacuna of research on flute pedagogy in Italy, my thesis offers an opportunity to learn more about master flautists in Italy of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. It is the first known doctoral thesis with a focus on the AIF in Rome, reforms to musical Higher Education Institutions in Italy, and several Italian composers are re-discovered. Furthermore, there is little published work on Guiot’s teaching methods and no known research on his flute teaching in Italy during the twentieth century. Throughout my presentation, I will highlight how my doctoral thesis will be a reference for future research, and I will unpack the conceptual framework that underpins my research. I will underline the strong intercultural, interlingual, and intersemiotic elements to my thesis, with primary source materials in Italian and French examined throughout: including pre-existing audio and written musical data; new and original interviews with key participants; articles from the flute magazines Syrinx and Traversières; published books, and other material.
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