Ad Parnassum Studies

Editorial Committee: Roberto De Caro, Lorenzo Frassà, Roberto Illiano, Fulvia Morabito, Claudio Nuzzo, Michla Niccolai, Luca Sala, Massimiliano Sala

This series of Studies is devoted to individual composers who have made a significant impact in the field of instrumental music. In this way they remain securely within the journal’s area of interest. The aim is to avoid imposing strict limits on the specific themes being treated, given that the entire output of the composers concerned may be taken into account and not just the instrumental music.

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Forthcoming

Vol. 6: Beyond the Stage. Musical Theatre and Performing Arts between “fin de siècle” and the “années folles”, edited by Michela Niccolai and Giuseppe Montemagno, Bologna, Ut Orpheus Edizioni, 2011 (Ad Parnassum Studies, 6)

 

Last Releases

aps4 Vol. 4 - European ‘Fin de siécle’ and Polish Modernism. The Music of Mieczysław Karłowicz
edited by Luca Sala, Bologna, Ut Orpheus Edizioni 2010 (Ad Parnassum Studies, 4), pp. 430.

The volume examines the figure of Mieczysław Karłowicz in the broader sociocultural context which fostered his work. The attempt to contextualize an immense intellectual patrimony — despite being restricted to a tiny number of works when compared to more prolific authors, especially in the context of the XIX and the XX centuries — is always a complex and hazardous task. My primary intention in organizing the volume has been to explicate Karłowicz the man as well as Karłowicz the composer, against the complex background of the European fin-de-siècle. The various essays aim to present the reader with an exhaustive reconstruction of Karłowicz’s intellectual work. Karłowicz’s oeuvre offers a broad artistic portrayal of Poland at the end of the nineteenth century as a fast-evolving country, politically divided and filled with contradictions. Hence the necessity to investigate the fin-de-siècle context with its social and historical implications, showing the influence of the European cultural milieu on the composer’s poetics and on his thought. We shall examine the spectrum of relationships and affinities linking Karłowicz’s works to the Polish cultural world (on the wave of the rising ‘autochthonous’ avant-garde movements) and to the wider cultural life pulsating beyond its borders, with special reference to German Wagnerism and Symphonism. Essentially, we are striving to define the uniqueness of his oeuvre, which — in relation to the manifold influences co-existing in Poland, an insubstantial nation from the political viewpoint and divided along three socio-cultural fronts — could be defined as distinctively Polish, yet ultimately European.

Contributors

Tomasz Baranowski (WARSAW, PL) - Andrzej Chwałba (KRAKÓW, PL) - Stephen Downes (SURREY, UK) - Peter Franklin (OXFORD, UK) - Stefan Keym (LEIPZIG, DE) - Ryszard D. Golianek (POZNAN, PL) - Agata Mierzejewska (WARSAW, PL) - Michael Murphy (LIMERICK, IE) - Jadwiga Paja-Stach (KRAKÓW, PL) - Luca Sala (PARIS, FR) - Renata Suchowiejko (KRAKÓW, PL) - Emma Sutton (ST. ANDREWS, UK) - Andrzej Tuchowski (ZIELONA GÓRA, PL) - Alistair Wightman (STAFFORD, UK) - James L. Zychowicz (MADISON, USA)

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aps5 Vol. 5 - Instrumental Music and the Industrial Revolution
edited by Roberto Illiano and Luca Sala, Bologna, Ut Orpheus Edizioni 2010 (Ad Parnassum Studies, 5), pp. 652.

In this volume we wanted to investigate the intersection between the Industrial Revolution and the aesthetic-musical field. In particular, we aimed to explore the European dimension of the cultural exchanges caused by the phenomenon of musical migration, together with the international relationships generated by the music printing industry, entrepreneurship and the market for musical instruments. The later eighteenth and earlier nineteenth centuries were a time of fundamental change in European life, proceeding from the revolutionary implications of the ideologies of Enlightenment, and reverberating in market economies, methods of manufacturing and agriculture, modes of travel, and population distribution. The development of new technologies resulted in the enlargement and improvement of the music printing industry, and in the widespread diffusion of music in private and public spheres. The Industrial Revolution brought about the ‘modernization’ of productive processes and, as a consequence, engendered a kind of ‘globalization’ of the musical market.

Contributors

Luca Aversano (ROME) - Claudio Bacciagaluppi (BERN) - Carmela Bongiovanni (GENOA) - Andrea Cardone (CASERTA) - Jen-yen Chen (TAIPEI, TAIWAN) - Simone Ciolfi (ROME) - Andrea Coen (ROME) - Therese Ellsworth (WASHINGTON, DC) - Joël-Marie Fauquet (PARIS) - Florence Gétreau (PARIS) - Consuelo Giglio (TRAPANI) - Outi Jokiharju (LONDON) - Roe-Min Kok (MONTREAL, QC) - Paul R. Laird (LAWRENCE, KS) - Marie Sumner Lott (STATE COLLEGE, PA) - Simon McVeigh (LONDON) - Elio Matassi (ROME) - Russ Manitt (MONTREAL, QC) - Jenny Nex (LONDON) - Leon Plantinga (NEW HAVEN, CT) - Alban Ramaut (SAINT-ÉTIENNE) - Rudolf Rasch (UTRECHT) - David Rowland (MILTON KEYNES, UK) - Laure Schnapper (PARIS) - Rohan H. Stewart-MacDonald (CAMBRIDGE, UK) - Renata Suchowiejko (KRAKÓW) - Maria Alice Volpe (RIO DE JANEIRO-BRASÍLIA)

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Published Volumes

bs1Vol. 1 - Hector Berlioz. Miscellaneous Studies

Introduction by Julian Rushton. Essays by Diana Bickley, Claudio Bolzan, Guillaume Bordry, Laura Cosso, Katharine Ellis, Roberto Illiano, Michela Niccolai, Mark A. Pottinger, Alban Ramaut, Cécile Reynaud, Julian Rushton, Lesley A. Wright

Edited by Fulvia Morabito, Michela Niccolai
Year: 2005
Ut Orpheus Edizioni
Code: APS 1
ISBN: 978-88-8109-453-0
Pages: pp. 304

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Reviews

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bs1Vol. 2 - Giovanni Battista Viotti. A Composer between the Two Revolutions
Essays by Clive Brown, Giuliano Castellani, Federico Celestini, Mariateresa Dellaborra, Alessandro Di Profio, Alexandre Dratwicki, Simon P. Keefe, Warwick Lister, Simon McVeigh, David Milsom, Mara Parker, David Rowland, Bruce R. Schueneman, Christian Speck, Rohan H. Stewart-MacDonald, Robin Stowell, Denise Yim

Edited by Massimiliano Sala
Year: 2006
Ut Orpheus Edizioni
Code: APS 2
ISBN: 978-88-8109-457-8
Pages: pp. 468

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Reviews

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bs1Vol. 3 - Domenico Scarlatti Adventures. Essays to Commemorate the 250th Anniversary of His Death
Essays by João Pedro d’Alvarenga, Andrea Coen, Todd Decker, Emilia Fadini, Sara Gross Ceballos, Valerio Losito, Jacqueline Ogeil, Serguei N. Prozhoguin, Joel Sheveloff, Rohan H. Stewart-MacDonald, W. Dean Sutcliffe, Colin Timms, Chris Willis

Edited by Massimiliano Sala, W. Dean Sutcliffe
Year: 2008
Ut Orpheus Edizioni
Code: APS 3
ISBN: 978-88-8109-462-2
Pages: pp. 476

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