Siena, University of Siena – Chigiana Music Academy, 16–18 October 2020
The twenty-seventh Annual Conference of the SIdM will take place in Siena from 16 to 18 October 2020 and is organized in collaboration with the Department of Historical Sciences and Cultural Heritage of the University of Siena, the Chigiana Music Academy, and the “Rinaldo Franci” Higher Institute of Musical Studies. The annual members’ assembly will take place during the conference.
The SIdM annual conference is an important opportunity for meeting and scholarly exchange among researchers. This year we are pleased to expand the opportunities for participation by offering members the possibility of presenting, in addition to the usual papers, also posters relating to works in progress.
Programme:
Friday 16 October
“Rinaldo Franci” Higher Institute of Musical Studies
9:30 – Welcome addresses
10:00 – Session 1a
(Auditorium)
Chair Carlo Lo Presti
Nicola De Rosa, Schumann at the boundaries of the musical text
Antonella D’Orio, ‘Musical tenzone’. Keyboard duels between myth and document
Enrico Coden, Between plagiarism and originality. A critical reading of Antonio Lorenzoni’s Saggio
Coffee break – 12:00 – Session 2a
(Auditorium)
Chair Francesco Rocco Rossi
Nicoleta Paraschivescu, «Cette méthode des Partimenti […] est d’une utilité réelle pour tous».
How young professional musicians learn to compose
Federico Maria Sardelli, Vivaldi’s music for organ and harpsichord
Mariateresa Storino, Maria Luisa Baldassarri, Eighteenth-century women composers and the sonata for
keyboard instruments
10:00 – Session 3a
(Multimedia Room)
Chair Francesco Rocco Rossi
Francesca Aragona, New perspectives on world music: the ethno-electronics of Clap! Clap!
Vera Vecchiarelli, A methodological proposal: the analysis of Fabrizio De André’s songs
Renata Dalianoudi, The Italian Influence over the Greek Art and Popular Music
Coffee break
12:00 – Session 4a
(Multimedia Room)
Chair Maria Teresa Dellaborra
Giacomo Albert, Sound and silence in video art of the 1970s
Alberto Massarotto, Classical music as a narrative element in Alfred Hitchcock’s films
Angelina Zhivova, Shostakovich and animation cinema
10:00 – Session 5a
(Music History Classroom)
Chair Maria Grazia Sità
Marina Lucia, Ernst Levy on the 125th anniversary of his birth
Giovanni Battista Boccardo, Chante-moi chanson d’amour: the music of Claude Vivier
Cesare Mancini, Richard Strauss’s theatre in Franco Capuana’s annotations on performance
practice
Coffee break – 12:00 – Session 6a
(Music History Classroom)
Chair Maria Antonella Balsano
Gioia Filocamo, Anatomical dissections with music in early modern Padua
Ilaria Sainato, Domenico, Guglielmo, or Francesco? L.V.29 and the fifteenth-century choreutic
tradition
Andrea Puentes-Blanco, Lost and found: Giuseppe Caimo’s Canzonette… libro primo (1584)
Friday 16 October
Chigiana Music Academy, Concert Hall
#Beethoven250
15:00 – Keynote Lecture
Beethoven and Italian culture
Keynote Speaker: Christine Siegert (Head of the Beethoven-Archiv Research Centre at the
Beethoven-Haus in Bonn)
16:00 – Panel Session
Thought and writing in Beethoven’s workshop: new investigations into the compositional process
organized by Francesco Fontanelli and Elisa Novara
moderated by: Fabrizio Della Seta
papers by: Richard Sänger (Beethovens Werkstatt, Beethoven-Haus), Elisa Novara (Beethovens
Werkstatt, Beethoven-Haus), Jens Dufner (Beethoven-Haus), Francesco Fontanelli (University of
Pavia)
18:30 – Beethoven’s Sketches Live in Chigiana
Genesis of an Adagio: world premiere of the sketches for the second movement of Beethoven’s op. 127
Concert by the Quartetto Adorno
Edoardo Zosi, Liù Pellicciari, Benedetta Bucci, Danilo Squitieri
programme:
van Beethoven, La gaieté, Allegro grazioso, followed by the incipit of the Adagio in 9/8 (sketches from
the miscellany Artaria 206, Kraków, Biblioteka Jagiellońska)
van Beethoven, theme of the Adagio, with only the melodic and bass lines (from notebook Autograph
11.2, Berlin, Staatsbibliothek)
van Beethoven, theme of the Adagio, first full-score version (from the miscellany Artaria 206,
Kraków, Biblioteka Jagiellońska)
van Beethoven, String Quartet op. 127, Adagio, ma non troppo e molto cantabile
transcription of the sketches and introduction to the listening: Francesco Fontanelli; organization and
coordination: Susanna Pasticci
Saturday 17 October
University of Siena Rectorate
9:30 – Session 7a
(Aula Magna)
Chair Paola Besutti
Eugenio Refini, From ‘musical romance’ to pasticcio of early music: Vernon Lee’s Arianna a Mantova
Valentina Trovato, The process of rediscovering the past in printed editions of Jephte, between
the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century
Adriano Morea, Historically informed analysis and digital musicology. The case of an unpublished
Mass by Tommaso Traetta
Coffee break – 11:30 – Session 8a
(Aula Magna)
Chair Giulia Giovani
Michael Klaper, What do we know about Francesco Cavalli as a composer of cantatas?
Luca Della Libera, The Acciaiuoli/Apolloni workshop: authorship, sources, and self(?) borrowings in
the libretto of Alessandro Melani’s L’empio punito (1669)
Ilaria Contesotto, Rosicrucian influences in Venetian opera in the second half of the
seventeenth century
9:30 – Session 9a
(Aula Magna storica)
Chair Federico Gon
Gianluca Stefani, New gambles and outstanding debuts. Half a century of singers at the
Sant’Angelo theatre in Venice (1677–1730)
Emanuela Nadia Borghi, Brigida Giorgi Banti (1755–1806): vocality and artistic career of a
prima donna
Barbara Gentili, Emma Carelli in early twentieth-century Italian culture: embodying the
‘donna nova’ on stage and beyond
Coffee break – 11:30 – Session 10a
(Aula Magna storica)
Chair Antonio Caroccia
Francesco Milella, Italian opera and Creole identity: Manuel García in Mexico City (1826–
Gennaro Saviello, “Reveling from joy to joy”. Melodrama in the young Verga
Ruhama Santorsa, Di locanda in locanda e sempre in sala by J. S. Mayr. A farce divided into three
parts and a broader reflection on the genre
9:30 – Session 11a
(Council Chamber)
Chair Livio Aragona
Gabriele Sfarra, Giovanni Salviucci’s ‘Meditazioni’: 1929–1931
Enrico Reggiani, “The purely musical idea or germ”: Benjamin Britten and the tritone in the War
Requiem op. 66
Alessandro Mastropietro, Valentino Bucchi’s Il coccodrillo: an amphibious dramaturgy for two
spectacular texts
Coffee break – 11:30 – Session 12a
(Council Chamber)
Chair Candida Felici
Elena Minetti, Musical writing strategies in the compositional process of Musica su due
dimensioni (1952) by Bruno Maderna
Francesca Cescon, Das atmende Klersein by Luigi Nono. Analytical and philological investigation
Paola Maurizi, Maria Grazia Sità, Pre-compositional materials by Franco Donatoni. New
acquisitions of the Conservatory of Perugia
14:00 – Annual Assembly of SIdM Members (Aula Magna)
16:00 – Presentation of the first two volumes of the SIdM project on Beethoven’s piano sonatas, coordinated by Guido Salvetti:
Giorgio Sanguinetti, Beethoven’s piano sonatas: genre, form, expression
Guido Salvetti, The Sonatas in the years of the Eroica up to op. 31
Riccardo Risaliti and Antonio Rostagno will discuss them, with contributions by Francesco Rocco Rossi,
Claudio Toscani, and the authors
18:00–19:30 – Session 13a
(Aula Magna)
Chair Giacomo Sciommeri
Enrico Scavo, Mosè risorto dall’acque by Giovanni Battista Bassani
Valentina Anzani, The conception of family within a network of eighteenth-century Bolognese musicians: analysis of comic duets and trios for domestic use
Valerio Morucci, Reassessing the Development of ‘cori spezzati’: New Discoveries in Bologna
18:00–19:30 – Session 14a
(Aula Magna storica)
Chair Marina Toffetti
Michelangelo Gabbrielli, Costanzo Porta’s Missa Ducalis. Musical science and political celebration
in the Florence of Cosimo I de’ Medici
Paolo Cavallo, Intertextuality and self-borrowings in the 8-voice motets and those for 2, 3, 4, 5 voices (1604–1626) by
Giovanni Battista Stefanini
Christine Suzanne Getz, The Tini, the Somascans, and Dentice’s Lamentationi
18:00–19:30 – Session 15a
(Council Chamber)
Chair Marco Mangani
Marco Pollaci, Nicola Zingarelli and the didactic tradition of the Neapolitan school between the late
eighteenth and the early nineteenth century: a study through manuscript sources
Marco Giustini, Oswald Jonas, Introduzione alla teoria di Heinrich Schenker. Toward a
renewal of Italian Schenkerian studies
Ji Yeon Lee, Dynamic Forms in Puccini’s Turandot
Sunday 18 October, University of Siena Rectorate
9:30–11:00 – Session 16a
(Aula Magna)
Chair Lucio Tufano
Iolanda Tambellini, Origin and repertory of the Compagnia dei Piccoli Hollandesi
Sergio Monferrini, The instrumental chapel of the Basilica of San Gaudenzio in Novara in the
eighteenth century
Francesca Piccone, Musical devotions in L’Aquila in the later eighteenth century: a new assessment
Coffee break – 11:30–13:00 – Session 17a
(Aula Magna)
Chair Claudio Toscani
Valentina Cucinotta, La villana riconosciuta: a commedia per musica by Domenico Cimarosa
in the European context
Benedetta Amelio, The stereotyping of affects in Neapolitan intermezzi (1720–1735).
Some examples from the works of Hasse, Sarro, and Leo
Emilia Pantini, Piccolo mondo antico: the case of Niccolò Piccinni
9:30–11:00 – Session 18a
(Aula Magna storica)
Chair Bianca Maria Antolini
Angela Fiore, Music and collecting in the collections of Marquis Giuseppe Campori
Maria Antonella Balsano, The flowering spring and the great absentee. The musical heritage of the
Jesuit library in Palermo in 1682
Francesca Degiorgio, Letters from Giacomo Puccini to Ferruccio Pagni. The unpublished correspondence
in the Archive of Villa Puccini in Torre del Lago
Coffee break – 11:30–13:00 – Session 19a
(Aula Magna storica)
Chair Luca Della Libera
Michela Berti, Musicological documents and methodology for a new catalogue of the Baroque festival
Warren Kirkendale, Descriptions of music heard in Italy in three books published in London in the
eighteenth century
9:30–11:00 – Session 20a
(Council Chamber)
Chair Licia Sirch
Eric Boaro, Profectio Moysis ad Aegyptum (1772): a lost oratorio by Ferdinando Bertoni
Davide Mingozzi, In the “workshop” of Amilcare Ponchielli. A new source for the Introduction
to Act One of I Lituani (1874)
Francesco Bertini, The “words of the Parolajo”: suggestions, collaborations, and supervisions by
Rossi at La Fenice
Coffee break – 11:30–13:00 – Session 21a
(Council Chamber)
Chair Cesare Mancini
Luca Aversano, The contribution of the National Educational Centre for Artistic Instruction to
the history of music education in Italy in the second half of the twentieth century
Raffaella Carluccio, From page to stage. Alberto Arbasino as critic and music director
Elena Oliva, «I enjoy myself enormously, laugh myself to death, and that is enough for me». Offenbach and Italian music criticism
Saturday 17 October, Sunday 18 October
University of Siena Rectorate
Posters
Giulia Giovani, The biographical index Artisti in movimento
Marco Giuliani, A new bibliography of printed vocal music up to 1700: the section devoted to collections by various authors in the old Vogel is now complete
Carlo Pagliucci, Iconography of Italian patriotic scores across a century of music publishing: the fascinating unexplored panorama from the Risorgimento to the end of the Second World War (1847–1946)
Giovanni Tasso, New developments in the discographic project on the Italian cantata
Marina Toffetti, Gabriele Taschetti, The restoration of incomplete polyphonies between theory and practice: recent experiences and ongoing projects
