Research in Musicology
The Conferences of Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini
The Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini organizes International Conferences and Symposia on various musicological topics. The first one has been the IMIR (Instrumental Music and the Industrial Revolution) International Conference, held in Cremona in 2006. Hence, the Nicolò Paganini. Diabolus in Musica International Conference followed it in 2009, involving the Società dei Concerti of La Spezia (Italy) and the Festival Paganiniano of Carro.
In 2010 three International Conferences will be organised in three different places, with different patners interested in these projects:
2010
Beyond Notes: Improvisation in Western Music in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
15-17 July 2010, La Spezia, Italy
The Società dei Concerti of La Spezia (Liguria, Italy) and the Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini of Lucca, in association with MusicalWords.it, on the occasion of the 9th edition of the Festival Paganiniano of Carro have organised the symposium on «Beyond Notes: Improvisation in Western Music in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries», held in La Spezia, CAMeC, from Thursday 15 to Saturday 17 July 2010. The Symposium aimed to investigate musical improvisation in the XVIII and XIX centuries. The programme has been articulated within the following areas, although other topics are welcomed:
Musical improvisation in contemporaneous treatises and philosophy
New perspectives on improvisation in classical music
Improvisation and popular music in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Improvisation in different musical genres and languages
The relationship of improvisation to composition
Musical improvisation and related arts
Improvisation in the music of Nicolò Paganini.
Proposals with an interdisciplinary approach (ethnomusicological, sociological, philosophical, anthropological and performance practice) are welcome.
----------
From Stage to Screen: Musical Films in Europe and United States (1927-1961)
16-18 September 2010, Monte San Savino (AREZZO), Italy
The Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini of Lucca, under the auspices of the Department of Culture of the Municipality of Monte San Savino, in collaboration with MAGADIS International Music Agency, is pleased to invite submissions of proposals for the symposium on From Stage to Screen: Musical Films in Europe and United States (1927-1961), to be held in Monte San Savino (Arezzo, Italy), from Thursday 16 to Saturday 18 September 2010. The Symposium aims to investigate the variety of sonic and musical practices of early musicals, their relationships with musical comedy and the progression from stage to screen in Europe and United States (1927-1961). The programme committee encourages submissions within the following areas, although other topics are welcome:
Music in black-and-white films in Europe and USA
From musical comedy to musical: textual, material, technological sources
Composers, singers and performers
Broadway and Hollywood: music, play and dance topics
Musical films and jazz
Musical Practices and Techniques
Musical and gender matters
----------
Chopin and Liszt: Two Composers and their Relation to the Parisian Musical Scene
2-4 December 2010, Lucca, Italy
The Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini and Palazzetto Bru Zane (Centre de musique Romantique Française), under the auspices of the Municipality of Lucca, Province of Lucca and the Association angevine Franz Liszt, are pleased to invite submissions from scholars of proposals for the symposium on Chopin e Liszt: due compositori a confronto nell’universo musicale parigino / Chopin and Liszt: Two Composers and their Relation to the Parisian Musical Scene / Chopin et Liszt : deux compositeurs face à face sur la scène musicale parisienne, to be held in the Palazzo Ducale, Lucca, from Thursday 2 until Saturday 4 December 2010.
The Symposium aims to investigate different facets of the life and works of the two composers, in the context of the Parisian scene during the nineteenth century. The programme committee encourages submissions within the following areas, although other topics are welcome:
Chopin, Liszt and 19th-century Parisian art
Chopin’s and Liszt’s oeuvre in the context of the contemporary musical aesthetic
Liszt’s orchestral works
Chopin, Liszt and the ‘French Piano School’
Chopin, Liszt and musical nationalism
Chopin, Liszt: performers of different styles
The Contemporary Reception of Chopin’s and Liszt’s music
