Milan, 29-30 November 2024
Conference promoted by the Italian Society of Musicology in collaboration with the “G. Verdi” Conservatory of Milan.
Programme: Friday 29 November – 9:30 a.m.
Institutional greetings
First part
Chair Francesco Rocco Rossi
Fabiana Ciampi, The “fortune” of the alternatim technique in solemn celebrations from the Middle Ages to the present day: advantages and critical issues
Giacomo Ferraris, Origins and characteristics of the musical repertory of the Italian Trecento: some evidence from treatises
Stefano Mengozzi, Solmization theory in post-humanist Italy
Second part
Chair Stefano Mengozzi
Stefano Leoni, Bartolomé Ramos de Pareja: his activity in Italy and a working hypothesis on his educational background
Cecilia Luzzi, The practice of singing to the lira in sixteenth-century treatises
Vania Dal Maso, Giovanni Maria Lanfranco’s ‘Scintille di mvsica’ (Brescia 1533). Practical realization on the monochord of the theoretical examples and reception of the treatise
3:00 p.m.
First part
Chair Marco Mangani
Francesca Mignogna, The manuscript treatise Pn, Rés.-1090 (16th century): a new theoretical source attributable to Francesco Sorrentino and Giovanthomaso Cimello
Marta Marullo, «Battuta della musica», or the correct way of ‘beating the music’ according to the precepts of Agostino Pisa
Marco D’Acunzo and Marina Lucia, Rules on «Contraponto e della compositione di piu voci» in the theoretical works of Scipione Cerreto
Second part
Chair Rosa Cafiero
Erica Salomoni, The Spanish guitar in the 18th century: an entirely Italian fashion
Jemma K. Thrussell, History and Practice of Self-accompaniment on the Viola da gamba
Fabrizio Longo, The theory of the practitioner: Salvatore Mellini, virtuoso of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Saturday 30 November – 9:30 a.m.
First part
Chair Mariateresa Dellaborra
Angela Lacalamita, ‘Il leuto anatomizzato’ by Pier Francesco Valentini (V-CVbav, Barb. Lat., 4433)
Laura Toffetti, ‘The true method of playing an Adagio’: complementarity between theory and performance practice in Italian violin treatises of the 17th and 18th centuries
Serena Sabia, Carlo Giovanni Testori’s ‘La musica ragionata’: sources and didactic purpose of an eighteenth-century harmony manual
Marco Beghelli, A linguistic misunderstanding: falsetto
Second part
Chair Claudio Toscani
Riccardo Castagnetti, Exemplary cantatas. Analyses of Clari’s duets in the treatises of Paolucci, Martini, and Eximeno
Matteo Marni, Father Giandomenico Catenacci (1718-1796), theorist of organ practice in late eighteenth-century Milan
3:00 p.m.
Chair Marina Toffetti
Lucija Konfic, The Treatises of Giannantonio Banner Maestro e Professore Padovano and his Influence on Musicians from the Eastern Adriatic Coast in the Second Half of the 18th Century
Gennaro Tallini, Contaminations, authorial and traditional variants in Fedele Fenaroli’s ‘Regole musicali per i principianti di Cembalo’ (1775)
Massimo Salcito, The Neapolitan school between theory, performance practice, and composition. The fifth book of partimenti by Fedele Fenaroli and the Milan manuscript of fugues for harpsichord
Giulia Vitale, Vincenzo Orgitano’s ‘Intavolature’ (1736-1820). A method for «properly placing the hand on the sound of the harpsichord»
5:30 p.m.
Round table
Issues and perspectives for musical treatises. The ITMI project, the current state of work, and possible developments
Participants: Mariateresa Dellaborra, Gabriele Gamba, Marco Mangani, Francesco Rocco Rossi, Giacomo Pirani
Scientific Committee:
Teresa M. Gialdroni
Mariateresa Dellaborra
Francesco Rocco Rossi
Marco Mangani
Giorgio Sanguinetti
