XXX ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE ITALIAN SOCIETY OF MUSICOLOGY

Catania, 27–29 October 2023

The thirtieth Annual Conference of the Italian Society of Musicology (SIdM) will take place in Catania from 27 to 29 October 2023 and will be organized by the Italian Society of Musicology in collaboration with the “Vincenzo Bellini” Conservatory of Catania.

The SIdM annual conference is an important opportunity for meeting and scholarly exchange among researchers; the annual members’ assembly will take place during the conference.

Friday, 27 October

9:30–10:00 a.m.
Institutional greetings

10:00–11:30 a.m.

Chair: Lucio Tufano

Tarcisio Balbo, Sarah M. Iacono, “In the manner practiced in the Papal Chapel”: on a seventeenth-century antiphoner printed for the monastery of Santa Chiara in Naples

Angela Fiore, “A Quick Visit to Naples”: the visit of Francesco II d’Este to the capital of the viceroyalty (1687)

Marco D’Acunzo, The musical chapel of San Giuseppe dei Nudi in Naples

Chair: Giuseppe Montemagno

Lorenzo Corrado, Almerindo Spadetta: first biographical and artistic notes

Gennaro Saviello, “Questions of Cavallerie*”: Verga, Mascagni, Puccini, and Giovanni Salvestri. New documents on the genesis of the melodrama*

Cinzia Dimatteo, The other Bohème: the debut of Leoncavallo’s opera and its success in opera programmes

Chair: Graziella Seminara

Andrea Agresti, Between compositional reception and myth-making. The model of Alban Berg in Alfredo Sangiorgi’s twelve-tone writing

Laura Vattano, Luigi Russolo’s intonarumori in the Futurist compositions of Franco Casavola

Alessandro Mastropietro, From Franco Evangelisti’s correspondence: a comparison with György Ligeti on the “casual” and the “aleatory”

11:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Coffee break

12:00–1:30 p.m.

Chair: Giulia Giovani

Nicola Usula, The “music books” of Ferdinand III of Habsburg (1608–1657): on the phenomenon of musical collecting and collection-building in Vienna before Leopold I

Valeria Conti, From Innsbruck to Vienna: Italian music in the collection of Emperor Leopold I

Emina Smailbegovic, A music collection in the Venetian area: the collection of Leonardo Grimani

Chair: Francesco Rocco Rossi

Clarissa Cammarata, The Office of St Peter in Chains in the manuscript Asti, Biblioteca del seminario vescovile, XXIX

Incoronata Colantuono, The practice of bastir motz, so e razó in the Cantigas de Santa Maria set in the Kingdom of Sicily

Alba Scotti, Et tetigit os meum. Elements of dramaturgy in ninth-century liturgical celebration

Chair: Alessandro Mastropietro

Alessandro Restelli, From Legnano to Los Angeles. Biographical profile of the violinist and luthier Mario Antonio Frosali

Stefano Catena, Thoughts and approaches to the analysis and categorization of spatiality in acousmatic music

Simone Marino, Timbral and material metamorphoses in the music of Kaija Saariaho

1:30–3:00 p.m.
Lunch break

3:00–4:30 p.m.

Chair: Angela Romagnoli

Michael Klaper, Les goûts réunis avant la lettre? Giovanni Francesco Tagliavacca and his cantatas on texts by Ascanio Amalteo (1663/64)

Thomas Griffin, Two Italian serenatas by Antonio Caldara: Il più bel Nome (1708) and Chi s’arma di Virtù (1709), now available in the Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Österreich

Francesca Mignogna, Parody and self-borrowing in the funeral compositions of Pierre-Louis Pollio (1724–1796)

Chair: Daniela Castaldo

Scot Buzza, Giuseppe Saratelli in Northern Italy: Toward Restoring the Narrative of the Settecento

Donatella Melini, Letters with musical texts in works of art: an interesting line of research

Chair: Marco Mangani

Marida Rizzuti, Ancient myths on Broadway. Toward a myth-critical reading of the musical

Armando Ianniello, Not only film music… Rediscovering the opera Napoli milionaria by Eduardo De Filippo and Nino Rota

4:30–5:00 p.m.
Coffee break

5:00–7:00 p.m.
Plenary session

Plenary session “Music Is a Woman.” Music history beyond gender: role, function, and female creativity in art music

Speakers:

Bianca Maria Antolini, Private music: palace or prison?

Barbara Gentili, Between reception and production: singers and actresses in the transnational representation of the donna nova

Luca Cianfoni, Elena Barbàra Giuranna: updates and research perspectives in the light of archival materials

Anita Posateri, “How to sing the famous aria of Dalila*”: Jeanne Gerville-Réache, from stage to record*

Mariateresa Storino, The “Machiavellian” action of gender identity in the study of female creativity

7:30 p.m.

Concert offered by the “Bellini” Conservatory

Bellini Wind Ensemble
Giuseppe Ventura, conductor

Music by Mozart, Enescu, Raff

Saturday, 28 October

9:30–11:00 a.m.

Chair: Bianca Maria Antolini

Maria Cristina Paciello, Music in the Spada household: first investigations into the family’s musical interests in the seventeenth century

Michela Berti, “The expense for music […] shall be removed as a saving measure.” The economic management of extraordinary music at San Luigi dei Francesi in eighteenth-century Rome

Elisabetta Pasquini, William Parsons’s Italian Grand Tour, “a young man of singular merit”

Chair: Guido Salvetti

Daniele Palma, Nineteenth-century treatises and transnational cultures of singing: the case of John Barnett, “father of English opera”

Dario Savino Doronzo, Grande Méthode Complète de Cornet à Pistons et de Saxhorn. Jean-Baptiste Arban, the virtuoso of the valve cornet

Simona Cinciripini, Portrait of Gaetano Braga. Territories and historiography for a catalogue of his works

Chair: Claudio Toscani

Federico Volpe, The Islamic East in Italian opera: musical and textual analyses beginning with L’italiana in Algeri

Isabella Rossi, Vincenzo Bellini and the instrumental reworkings of opera arias published by Giovanni Ricordi

Giuseppe Trovato, Reconstructing the performativity of Mamma Agata from Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali by Donizetti and Gilardoni

11:00–11:30 a.m.
Coffee break

11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

Chair: Paola Besutti

Adriana De Feo, The apprenticeship of a librettist: the case of Sidonio by Pietro Pariati (Venice 1706)

Angela Romagnoli, “Come on, to the fencing ground”: the long and fruitful alliance between fencing and the performing arts in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

Ilaria Grippaudo, *Il giardino de’ fiori coltivato dalle virtù (1717) by Alessandro Scarlatti

Chair: Elisabetta Pasquini

Marina Toffetti, Scala, Scaletta, and one small step: the history of the success of a bestseller in music pedagogy

Giulia Capecchi, The treatment of dissonances in Pietro Pontio’s Ragionamento (1588)

Elia Pivetta, “To place one’s hands on the keys and make proper harmony”: learning counterpoint in Francesco Gasparini’s L’armonico pratico

Chair: Maria Rosa De Luca

Aurèlia Pessarrodona, Spanish influences in Boccherini’s instrumental music around the fandango

Elisabetta Vaccarone, Between Undines, Sylphs, and Villi: floating arabesques in French Romantic ballet

Valentina Cucinotta, Echoes of antiquity between Giacomo Orefice and George Sand: Consuelo (1895)

1:00–2:30 p.m.
Lunch break

2:30–4:00 p.m.
Plenary session

Members’ Assembly

4:00–6:00 p.m.
Plenary session

Telling Music: Reflections on Good Musical Outreach

Coordinated by: Marco Mangani and Francesco Rocco Rossi

Participants: Andrea Estero, Matteo Giuggioli, Donatella Melini, Massimo Privitera

With: Telmo Pievani, philosopher of biology and science communicator

6:00–7:30 p.m.
Plenary session

Round table: Around Bellini

Moderator: Claudio Toscani

Participants: Maria Rosa De Luca, Graziella Seminara, Antonino Marcellino

Sunday, 29 October

9:30–11:00 a.m.

Panel

Antonella D’Ovidio, Teresa M. Gialdroni, Davide Mingozzi, Chiara Pelliccia, Giacomo Sciommeri, Vidimus, Women Virtuosi of Music in Seventeenth-Century Italy: training, careers, networks of relationships, repertory. The project and the state of progress

Chair: Marina Toffetti

Johan Guiton, Music and musicians at the Basilica of San Petronio in Bologna: new fifteenth-century evidence

Naomi Barker, Palestrina, Papini, and the sixteenth-century music archive of Santo Spirito in Sassia

Luca Benedetti, The Masses of Giovanni Cavaccio: music for Bergamo Cathedral at the end of the sixteenth century

Chair: Antonio Marcellino

Daniela Castaldo, DEUMM Online: Rethinking the Dizionario enciclopedico universale della musica e dei musicisti for twenty-first-century musicological research

Lorenzo Ancillotti, Fra Giovanni Dreyer: from the court of the Tsars to the Annunziata in Florence

11:00–11:30 a.m.
Coffee break

11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

Chair: Livio Aragona

Marina Lucia, Antonio Savasta and the Neapolitan compositional school of the early twentieth century

Salvatore Maugeri, “New music” by Giuseppe Geremia, “chapel master from Catania.” Contexts of production and performance contexts

Chair: Andrea Estero

Francesco Monti, Interpreting personality: reception and performance of Schumann’s Kreisleriana, op. 16

Lisa Redorici, Untied knots: the physics of sound as a guide through the subtle balances of piano four hands

Chair: Federico Gon

Giulia Vitale, Music, ceremony, and appearance: the Royal Savoy Chapel and the sacred music of Giovanni Antonio Giay

Alessia Zangrado, Musical production in Gorizia between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: a reflection through archival documentation

Italian Society of Musicology

President: Claudio Toscani
Treasurer: Livio Aragona
Editor of the Rivista Italiana di Musicologia: Marco Mangani
Head of Society Publications: Francesco Rocco Rossi
Head of Conferences: Teresa M. Gialdroni
Head of Musicological Teaching: Candida Felici
Head of Information and Communication: Giacomo Albert
Board of Auditors: Federico Gon, Leonardo Miucci, Chiara Pelliccia