XXXIX ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE ITALIAN SOCIETY OF MUSICOLOGY

Cremona, 21–23 October 2022

The twenty-ninth Annual Conference of the Italian Society of Musicology (SIdM) will take place in Cremona from 21 to 23 October 2022 and will be organized by the Italian Society of Musicology in collaboration with the Department of Musicology and Cultural Heritage of the University of Pavia, the “Claudio Monteverdi” Conservatory of Cremona, and the Municipality of Cremona.

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, 21 October

9:30–10:00 a.m.
Institutional greetings: Gianluca Galimberti, Mayor of Cremona; Claudio Vela, Director of the Department of Musicology and Cultural Heritage; Anne Colette Ricciardi, Director of the “Monteverdi” Conservatory; Claudio Toscani, President of SIdM

10:00–11:30 a.m.

Conference Room
Chair: Angela Romagnoli

Vania Dal Maso, Clavis et chorda. Keyboard string instruments and performance techniques in fifteenth-century music

Massimiliano Guido, Ecology of sound on the clavichord

Alessandro Cilona, The transverse flute. Creation and dissemination of an instrument

Aula Magna
Chair: Giacomo Albert

Luca Guidarini, New analytical methodologies for the study of mixed music. Computer-aided analysis for computer-aided composition

Nicoletta Andreuccetti, Between formalization and unpredictability: physical models in Mauro Lanza’s poetics of the “side effect”

Nico Mangifesta, Music computing in the creative practices of new music for gamelan

Aula Robertini
Chair: Francesco Rocco Rossi

Giacomo Pirani, Among the papers of Niccolò Burzio: materials for a pedagogy of cantus figuratus

Francesco Saggio, Toward a rhythmic analysis of music between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries

Amina Fiallo, Monorhythmic cantus firmus in fifteenth-century polyphonic manuscripts from the German-speaking area

11:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Coffee break

12:00–1:30 p.m.

Conference Room
Chair: Candida Felici

Carlo Siega, Scelsi///Reloaded. Creative approaches and embodied re-interpretation practice

Sabine Ehrmann-Herfort, New music in Italo-German soundscapes – approaches to contemporary music

Ingrid Pustijanac, The voice and its spaces: a reflection on the compositional practices of post-spectral music in relation to vocal writing

Aula Magna
Chair: Rodolfo Baroncini

Giovanni Cunego, At the heart of Veronese liturgical-musical life: the Carpsum, ordinary book (mid-eleventh century)

Gianfranco Salvatore, A stylistic exercise by Orlando di Lasso. O Lucia miau miau between the theatre of Andrea Calmo and the frescoes of Trausnitz Castle

Riccardo Pintus, Belli contra Belli: a new witness for authorial philology

Aula Robertini
Chair: Massimiliano Guido

Lino De Gregorio, The rediscovered archive: the inventory of the “Rotelli–Varesi” organ-building workshop of Cremona

Andrea Macinanti, “Constructed in the likeness of the human body.” The organ as anthropomorphic metaphor

Angelo Pinto, The anti-anthropocentrism of Mahler’s music and contemporary environmental thought

1:30–3:00 p.m.
Lunch break

3:00–4:00 p.m.

Conference Room
Chair: Pietro Zappalà

Àngel Monasterio, Study and cataloging of the roll collection for pneumatic instruments of the Counts of Bell-lloc

Leda Di Piro, Sound reproduction machines: musical heritage?

Aula Magna
Chair: Claudio Toscani

Giuseppe Migliore, Giuseppe Scarlatti, Neapolitan maestro di cappella. Biographical investigation and first survey of the sources

Serena D’Ambrosio, Rediscovering the Six sonatas for harpsichord by Signor Dr Filippo Cinque, a singular didactic work of the Neapolitan school

Aula Robertini
Chair: Livio Aragona

Antonella Manca, Video dance in Fantarca by Roman Vlad: a choreomusical analysis of the Balletto meccanico

Valerio Aruta, *The Flood by Jaap Drupsteen (1985): a new version of Igor Stravinsky’s musical play

4:00–6:00 p.m.
Plenary session

Plenary session organized by the Department of Musicology and Cultural Heritage of the University of Pavia on the theme Musical Heritage: Strategies for Conservation, Protection, and Enhancement.

Speakers: Gabriele Barucca (Superintendence for Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape of Cremona-Lodi-Mantua), Fulvia Caruso (University of Pavia), Paolo Da Col (Venice Conservatory), Serena Facci (ADUIM – Music for Cultural Heritage Commission), Massimiliano Guido (University of Pavia), Benedikt Lodes (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek-Musiksammlung), Renato Meucci (Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia), Angela Romagnoli (University of Pavia), Gabriele Rossi Rognoni (Royal College of Music).

Saturday, 22 October

9:30–11:00 a.m.

Conference Room
Chair: Paola Besutti

Rodolfo Baroncini, The theatre of the putte: music and theatrical practice at the major Venetian ospedali in the early seventeenth century

Ilaria Contesotto, Federico Lanzellotti, An opera “of universal satisfaction.” Ariberto e Flavio, regi de’ Longobardi by Cialli and Lonati (Venice, Teatro San Luca, 1684–1685)

Lucia Magán Abollo, Teresa de Robles: a graciosa, autore de comedias, and sea goddess in early eighteenth-century Spanish musical theatre

Aula Magna
Chair: Andrea Estero

Andrea Parissi, An unfortunate fate for a promising opera: history and analysis of Gonzalvo di Huesca / Il Cavaliere di Marillac by Clito Moderati

Andreas Gies, Stefano Caciagli, “I worked very, very much for myself, for art […]”: an analytical approach to Pietro Mascagni’s Parisina

Alessandra Paciotti, Sibelius and Symbolist theatre: Pelléas et Mélisande

Aula Robertini
Chair: Maria Grazia Sità

Flavio Cappello, Ugo Piovano, Arturo Danesin’s 12 Serial Studies for Flute and pedagogical innovation in Italian conservatories in the 1960s

Valentina Trovato, Early Music Revival. The experience of “Musica e Poesia a San Maurizio” in Milan in the 1970s and 1980s

Marica Coppola, New perspectives on the string quartet in Italy, from 1989 to the present

11:00–11:30 a.m.
Coffee break

11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

Conference Room
Chair: Lucio Tufano

Giacomo Gibertoni, Olinto pastore arcade alle glorie del Tebro HWV 143: toward a new attribution hypothesis for the libretto

Emilia Pantini, Music and the politics of the Chracas during Piccinni’s Roman years (1758–1776)

Davide Pulvirenti, Censorship and innovation in late eighteenth-century opera seria: Arbace by Gaetano Sertor and Francesco Bianchi (Naples, 1781)

Aula Magna
Chair: Marco Mangani

Anna Martini, An iconographic approach to the dating of codices I-TVd 24 a/b

Amadeo Fera, The first book of madrigals by Giandomenico Martoretta (1548): a contextualization through the analysis of paratexts

Marta Marullo, Psalms and polychorality between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: three Roman vesper anthologies

Aula Robertini
Chair: Ingrid Pustijanac

Maica Tassone, “My music inside your self.” Art-music production systems in Franco Battiato’s pop concept (1979–1981)

Mauro Fosco Bertola, “Le corps inerte du songe.” Trauma and dream in Adriana Mater (2006) by Kaija Saariaho and Ain Maalouf

Alastair White, Music of Philosophy: Re-Reading Badiou’s Logics of Worlds through Alban Berg’s Wozzeck

1:00–2:30 p.m.
Lunch break

2:30–4:30 p.m.
Plenary session: Members’ Assembly

5:00–6:30 p.m.

Conference Room

Panel: Musical Galaxy, organized by the SIdM Research Group on the Musical

Massimo Privitera, “Tra-la-la” The cinematic adaptation of a song

Gianfranco Vinay, Musical and theatrical spectacularity

Daniele Peraro, Changing tunes in On the Town: anesthetized music and “racial restrictions” between theatre and cinema

Patrizia Veroli, Dance in the Hollywood musical of the Golden Age. A research hypothesis

Marida Rizzuti, “The Original Cast Recording of…” Where is originality?

Aula Magna
Chair: Mariateresa Dellaborra

Juan Mariano Porta, The reduced-style interpretation of Tartini’s concertos in the “Accademia degli Imperterriti”

Fabrizio Longo, Those little puzzles of Italian violin intabulations contained in AA.360

Enrico Gramigna, Giuseppe Maria Jacchini, galant schemata beneath the Two Towers

Aula Robertini
Chairs: Leonardo Miucci and Federico Gon

Mario Stefano Tonda, Bonifazio Asioli’s Sonata for fortepiano and obbligato cello

Claudio Ribeiro, Adding notes to the left hand in the performance of late Baroque Italian music on solo harpsichord

Alberto Annarilli, Protestant hymnology in Italy between the Risorgimento and patriotism

Luciano Rossi, Marco Santucci (1762–1843) between memory, history, unpublished music, and epistolary testimonies

Sunday, 23 October

9:30–11:00 a.m.

Conference Room
Chair: Bianca Maria Antolini

Chiara Casarin, Myriam Guglielmo, The music collection of the Historical Archive of the Episcopal Seminary of Padua: first investigations

Giulia Giovani, Francesco Lora, Giacomo Antonio Perti, correspondence with Europe

Cliff Eisen, An online edition of the Mozart family correspondence

Aula Magna
Chair: Marina Vaccarini

Marco Pollaci, Compositional formulas as musical topoi in Tchaikovsky: an analytical study

Anna Ficarella, Modern orchestral sonority according to Egon Wellesz: the treatise Die neue Instrumentation

Davide Mingozzi, In a Berlin salon between the wars: Paul von Schlippenbach and Le Devin du Village (1929)

Aula Robertini
Chair: Giorgio Sanguinetti

Giacomo Franchi, Clementi’s solo piano sonatas as witnesses to a European classicism

Cecilia Raunisi, The creative process of Johannes Brahms: the case of Quartet op. 26

Michele Russo, George Enescu’s Second Sonata for Violin and Piano op. 6 and Octet op. 7. Analysis of a stylistic turning point

11:00–11:30 a.m.
Coffee break

11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

Conference Room
Chair: Federica Rovelli

Valentina Bensi, The American experience of Alfredo Casella

Carolin Krahn, Beethoven’s smile: Alfredo Casella and the “international Italianization” of a German myth between past and future

Pier Francesco Miccichè, The debt to God. On Cioran’s Bach

Aula Magna
Chair: Teresa M. Gialdroni

Ilaria Fico, *Stabat Mater and Dies irae: canto fratto in Antiphoner C3 of the Cathedral of Acquaviva delle Fonti

Marco Giuliani, Mary Magdalene in music from early sixteenth-century laude to later seventeenth-century canzonette

Paolo Cavallo, Listening to and understanding the Lezioni. The Lamentations of Holy Week in the principal Savoy churches of the eighteenth century

Aula Robertini
Chair: Claudio Toscani

Manuel Farolfi, Allies in concert: Cage, Berio, Metzger, and the United States Information Service

Maria Borghesi, Music in the radio celebrations of the March on Rome (1926–1943)

Posters

Claudio Canevari, The “African” cornett of the Civic Museums of Reggio Emilia

Valeria Mannoia, Flemish prints of seventeenth-century Italian motets and the Capitoline motet for few voices

Alexandre Piret, The exercise notebooks of Toots Thielemans (1922–2016): a source for the study of the role of writing in the development of jazz practice. A first survey

Marina Toffetti, Chiara Comparin, Gabriele Taschetti, Giovanni Battista Riccio’s Secondo libro delle divine lodi (Venice, 1614): a new project for the analysis and reconstruction of a missing part in incomplete polyphony

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