XXXI ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE ITALIAN SOCIETY OF MUSICOLOGY

Florence, 25–27 October 2024

The thirty-first Annual Conference of the Italian Society of Musicology (SIdM) will take place in Florence from 25 to 27 October 2024 and will be organized by the Italian Society of Musicology in collaboration with the University of Florence and the “Luigi Cherubini” Conservatory.

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.

Programme

Friday, 25 October

University of Florence, Department of SAGAS, Via San Gallo 10

9:30–10:00 a.m.
Aula Parva

Institutional greetings

Claudio Toscani, President of SIdM
Alessandra Petrucci, Rector of the University of Florence
Paolo Liverani, Director of the Department of SAGAS
Giovanni Pucciarmati, Director of the “Cherubini” Conservatory of Florence

Address by Giuseppina La Face, Vice-President of Il Saggiatore musicale: In Praise of Pluralism

10:00–11:30 a.m.

Aula Parva
Chair: Lorenzo Bianconi

Roberto Scoccimarro, Giuseppe Verdi’s Sketches for Aida: Reflections on the Relationship between Creative Process and Exoticism

Lorenzo Corsini, “The sweet and commonplace triple rhythm of life.” Giuseppe Verdi and the Aesthetics of the Viennese Waltz

Jesse Rosenberg, The Wandering Jew of Rossini and Verdi: the Wanderings of a Street Peddler

Aula Sapienza
Chair: Bianca Maria Antolini

Maria Beatrice Venanzi, Marietta Alboni, “a little Maria for a great contralto”

Angela Annese, A Life for Music in Italy in the First Half of the Twentieth Century: Elisabetta Oddone

Sara Amoresano, Olga Samaroff: the Pianist Who Defeated Prejudice

Aula Ovale
Chair: Marina Toffetti

Paolo Teodori, The Regola di Contrapunto, or the Residue of Theory in Compositional Practice at the Turn of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Fabiana Ciampi, Score or Intabulation? Frescobaldi’s Warnings in the Fiori Musicali (1635)

Claudio Ribeiro, Performance Practice Evidence in the Manuscript E.111(21) of the Biblioteca della Musica, Bologna

Coffee break

12:00–1:30 p.m.

Aula Parva
Chair: Paola Besutti

Carlos C. Iafelice, On the Transmission of the Fourteenth-Century Madrigal: the Case of Sotto verdi fraschetti, molti augelli by Gherardello da Firenze

Cecilia Luzzi, Influences of the Practice of cantare all’improvviso in the Polyphonic Madrigal: New Evidence and Hypotheses for a Systematic Investigation

Cristina Cassia, Nervi d’Orfeo, Cornelis Schoonhoven, and the Italian Madrigal in the Low Countries

Aula Sapienza
Chair: Donata Bertoldi

Anna Rosaria Valanzuolo, Theatre in the Salon: Vincenzo De Meglio’s Operatic Paraphrases for Trio

Andrea Parissi, Amilcare Zanella: “Exalter and Propagator of Rossinian Music”

Aula Ovale
Chair: Marco Mangani

Roberto Lucanero, The Star-Spangled Banner in the Work of “Blind” Tom Wiggins, Jimi Hendrix, and Ornette Coleman

Francesca Maria Villani, Music, Gender, and Race: African American Women Composers and Their Impact on Classical Music

Eugenio Poli, The Influence of the Italo-Abyssinian War on Italian Opera at the End of the Nineteenth Century: An Analysis of Forgotten Repertory between Colonialism and Genre Painting

Lunch break

3:00–4:30 p.m.

Aula Parva
Chair: Francesco Rocco Rossi

Fabiana Baudo, Fragments of Liturgical-Musical Codices: Possibilities for Historical and Territorial Contextualization

Giulia Gabrielli, MICHAEL – Multimedial Italian CHant ArchivE of Liturgical Melodies and Texts: a Project on Plainchant Sources from the Fourteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries

Ilaria Fico, Peculiarities of Notation in Some Liturgical-Musical Sources of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Preserved in Terra di Bari

Aula Sapienza
Chair: Maurizio Agamennone

Marta Salvatori, Villotte and Other References to Folk Music in Antonio Smareglia’s Nozze istriane (1854–1929)

Luisa Hoffmann, Opera Nazionale Dopolavoro and Musical Folklorism in Sicily (ca. 1929–1942)

Girolamo Garofalo, A Byzantine Ritual Translation between East and West in Piana degli Albanesi: the Chant of the Enkòmia of the Epitàphios thrinos

Aula Ovale
Chair: Mila De Santis

Mariano Russo, The Genesis of B.A. Zimmermann’s Sonata for Solo Cello (1960): from the First Versions to the Edition

Francesca Scigliuzzo, Nuove Forme Sonore, 1970–1980: a Collective Practice between Writing and Improvisation

Michele Leggieri, “I am my sound.” Timbral Itineraries in Giovanni Verrando’s Cycle of the Unicorn

5:00–7:30 p.m.

Aula Parva
Chair: Danilo Prefumo

Marco Gallenga, Partimento Sensibility and Galant Schemas: the Italian Sonata in the Spain of Boccherini and Brunetti

Gennaro Tallini, Toward the Critical Edition of Fedele Fenaroli’s Intavolature: Recensio and Stemma of the Existing Witnesses

Gaetano Stella, Harmonic Theory in the Late Neapolitan School: Pietro Platania’s Manuscript Treatise on Harmony

Aula Sapienza
Chair: Maria Grazia Sità

Cristina Isabel Pina Caballero, From Florence to Milan: the Early Years of the Baritone Mariano Padilla’s Career (1857–1861)

Davide Ciprandi, Philology of Vaudeville: Methodological Reflections on Cletto Arrighi’s Teatro Milanese

Nunzia De Falco, The Window in the Neapolitan Song: Considerations on Gender Roles between the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Aula Ovale
Chair: Maria Teresa Arfini

Giacomo Franchi, Traces of Sonata Form in Après une lecture du Dante, Fantasia quasi sonata by Franz Liszt

Valentina Bensi, “Open Letter about America”: Ferruccio Busoni’s Conquest of the United States between Illusions and Reality

Orietta Caianiello, Walter Willson Cobbett and Chamber Music: from the Competitions to the Cyclopedic Survey of Chamber Music

Saturday, 26 October

“Luigi Cherubini” Conservatory of Music of Florence, Piazza delle Belle Arti 2

9:00–10:30 a.m.

Library Room
Chair: Chiara Pelliccia

Lorenzo Sabene, Simone Molinaro and Carlo Gesualdo. A Look at the Compositional Metamorphosis of the Genoese Master at the Turn of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Dario Falcone, The Lament of Joy: Context, Innovation, and Thought in the Secular Vocal Production of Domenico Mazzocchi

Elena Abbado, Flora et Germana: Music in Vienna and Florence for Francis Stephen of Lorraine, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1737–1739)

Room 14
Chair: Giacomo Albert

Francesco Brusco, Translations and Musical Adaptations in Italy in the 1960s, between Domestication and Foreignization

Jacopo Costa, The Representation of the Artist-Entrepreneur in Popular Music: Critical Elements Relating to the French Professional Sector

Room 15
Chair: Livio Aragona

Davide Mingozzi, The Archive of a Critic in Florence between the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Carlo Cordara and Il Marzocco

Gianluca Blasio, Mario Pilati in Milan (1926–1930): between Music Criticism and Artistic Consciousness

Roberta De Piccoli, The Song of Songs in the “study-operas” of Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari and Sandro Blumenthal

Coffee break

11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

Library Room
Chair: Lucio Tufano

Davide Pulvirenti, Dramaturgical Architecture and Musical Structure of Duets in Goldoni’s Comic Dramas

Samuele Lo Cascio, “Ciel pietoso, ciel clemente”: Circulation and Contaminations of a “Prayer” Aria at the End of the Eighteenth Century

Marco Micheletti, Gluck’s Prosodic Error: Reflections on the Passage from Written Text to Performed Text

Room 14
Chair: Federico Gon

Alba Brundo, The Use of the Harp in Early Nineteenth-Century Neapolitan Operatic Repertory

Federico Terzi, Theatre Organs in Nineteenth-Century Italy: the Case of La Scala

Zdravko Blažeković, Shaping Local Identity from Ancient Historical Roots: Nineteenth-Century Italian Theater Curtains with Ancient Themes

Room 15
Chair: Guido Salvetti

Leonardo Maffioletti, Belkis, regina di Saba. Ottorino Respighi’s Last Ballet between Orientalism and Theatrical Censorship

Massimo Salcito, Ghedini and the Reinterpretation of Monteverdian Opera in the Twentieth Century: the Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (1949)

Sebastian Gubian, Jean-Paul Sartre and the musicista engagé in Italy: Dialogue among René Leibowitz, Luigi Rognoni, and Luigi Nono

12:30–1:00 p.m.

Sala del Buonumore

In Memory of Piero

With Donata Bertoldi, Mariateresa Dellaborra, and Marco Mangani

Lunch break

2:00–3:30 p.m.

Sala del Buonumore

Elective Assembly

Coffee break

4:00–7:00 p.m.

Sala del Buonumore

PANEL
Transmitting Musical Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century European Violin Playing: Tartini’s Scuola delle Nazioni in Light of its Transnational Networks (Pupils, Patrons, Printers)

Participants: Cristina Scuderi, Agnese Pavanello, Gesa Zur Nieden, Carolin Krahn, Chiara Zuanni, Marcella Tambuscio

Room 14

PANEL
“RiSME digitali”: Archives, Material Sources, and Immaterial Sources in Electroacoustic Music

Participants: Giacomo Albert, Giulia Sarno, Valentina Bertolani, Laura Zattra, François-Xavier Féron

Room 15
Chair: Mariateresa Dellaborra

Enrico Gramigna, On Sacred Music in Ravenna: the Litanie op. 2 by Elia Vannini

Sara Dieci, Costante cor felsineo. Sonic Representations of the City of Bologna in the Cantata between the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Enrico Scavo, “Et in Arcadia ego”: Oratorios Promoted by the Arcadians of Ferrara between the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

7:00 p.m. – Concert offered by the Conservatory

Sunday, 27 October

“Luigi Cherubini” Conservatory of Music of Florence, Piazza delle Belle Arti 2

9:30–11:00 a.m.

Library Room
Chair: Giulia Giovani

Chiara Pelliccia, A Harpsichord for a Virtuosa? New Evidence on Iacopo Ramerini, “Excellent Maker of Harpsichords”

Mariateresa Dellaborra, Danilo Prefumo, “Music full of science, originality, and fire”: the Editions of Giuseppe Sammartini’s Instrumental Music

Juan Mariano Porta, With a little help of my friends: the Case of the Reworkings of Giuseppe Tartini’s Op. I Sonatas for Violin and Cello by Charles-Henri de Blainville and Giulio Meneghini

Room 14
Chair: Claudio Toscani

Giuseppe Montemagno, Strategies of an International amitié: On the French Premiere of Turandot

Nicola Lucarelli, An Unpublished Testimony on Il tabarro and Suor Angelica in the Library of the Perugia Conservatory

Samanta Marino, Le Villi, beyond Le Villi

Room 15
Chair: Candida Felici

Maria Semi, Reflections on the Music Historiography of the New Millennium

Mauro Fosco Bertola, American Dreams? Musical Theatre, Dream, and Imaginary in The Outcast by Olga Neuwirth

Alice Dozzo, The Adaptation of the Bolero in the Filmography of Pedro Almodóvar: a Case of Historical Recycling

Coffee break

11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

Library Room
Chair: Antonella D’Ovidio

Maria Adele Ambrosio, With Marie Theresia Ahlefeldt, Telemaco Lands in Denmark

Gabriele Mauro, *Elfrida and Elvira, Two Operas Projected into the Nineteenth Century

Angela Buompastore, New Documents from the Archive of Luigi Cagnola (1762–1833), Director of the Royal Theatres of Milan

Room 14
Chair: Susanna Pasticci

Luigi Verdi, The Apprenticeship of the Young Petrassi: Unpublished Compositions and Documents

Aurora Orsini, Massimo Mila and Goffredo Petrassi: Portrait of a Critic and a Composer through Their Correspondence

Elena Minetti, Attempts at Synchronization: Différences by Luciano Berio and the Search for an Effective Writing

Room 15
Chair: Angela Annese

Alice Fumero, Amina Goodwin’s Piano Technique. Clues and Reminiscences of Clara Wieck Schumann’s Teaching in Practical Hits on the Technique & Touch of Pianoforte Playing by Amina Goodwin

Matteo Mainardi, Giovanni Anfossi, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli’s Teacher

Antonino Alioto, Sofia Gubaidulina between Musical Aesthetics and Piano Pedagogy

Posters

Marina Toffetti, Gabriele Taschetti, Musicare. Musiche Incomplete: Censimento, Analisi, Restituzione

Francesca De Carlo, Twentieth-Century Musical Rome through the Programme Notes of Its Concert Institutions

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