Giacinto Scelsi: Music across the Borders
edited by Federico Celestini, Turnhout, Brepols, 2019 (Contemporary Composers, 2), pp. xxx+416, ISBN 978-2-503-58644-1.
The opening of the archive of the Isabella Scelsi Foundation in Rome in 2009 has facilitated new research perspectives on the work and the significance of …
Read More →Music and the Second Industrial Revolution
edited by Massimiliano Sala, Turnhout, Brepols, 2019 (Music, Science and Technology, 2), pp. xiv+498, ISBN: 978-2-503-58571-0.
The Second Industrial Revolution, new industrial societies, and growing urbanization drastically changed the life of humankind at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth …
Read More →Twentieth-Century Music and Mathematics
edited by Roberto Illiano, with an Introduction by Massimiliano Locanto, Turnhout, Brepols, 2019 (Music, Science and Technology, 1), pp. xxxiv+382, ISBN: 978-2-503-58570-3
Music and mathematics have been connected since ancient times. During the twentieth century, however, many composers consciously started …
Read More →Music Criticism 1950-2000
edited by Roberto Illiano and Massimiliano Locanto, Turnhout, Brepols, 2019 (Music, Criticism & Politics, 8), pp. xxiv + 420, ISBN 978-2-503-58442-3.
This book addresses the complex world of music criticism during the second half of the twentieth century, with particular …
Read More →Cinema Changes: Incorporations of Jazz in the Film Soundtrack
edited by Emile Wennekes and Emilio Audissino, Turnhout, Brepols, 2019 (Speculum Musicae, 34), pp. XXVI+334, ISBN 978-2-503-58447-8
Cinema is the form of entertainment that can be, above all, identified with the twentieth century. It gradually replaced theatre as a popular …
Read More →Musical Improvisation in the Baroque Era
edited by Fulvia Morabito, Turnhout, Brepols, 2019 (Speculum Musicae, 33), ISBN: 978-2-503-58369-3.
In the Baroque period there is a large discrepancy between sound entity and musical notation. In a context where the musical tradition, handwritten and printed, at times suggests …
Read More →Journal of Music Criticism – Volume 2, (2018)
Contents
Vicent Minguet (Institut-Escola Artístic Oriol Martorell, Barcelona, Spain): La crítica estética y social de Adorno al determinismo serial:
la forma musical, el material y su función social.
Georg Burgstaller (RILM, NY): Ideological Currents in Heinrich Schenker’s Post-War Polemics against …
Read More →Boccherini, Luigi. 9 Quintets for guitar, 2 violins, viola and violoncello (G 445-450, 451, 453) [Opera Omnia – Vol. XXII]
edited by Fulvia Morabito and Andrea Schiavina, Bologna, Ut Orpheus Edizioni, 2019 [Opera Omnia – Vol. XXII], ISMN: 979-0-2153-2538-8, ISBN: 978-88-8109-509-4, BCE 8.
Of the 16 Quintets for guitar and string quartet composed by Luigi Boccherini only 9 survived: nn. …
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"Music Patronage in Italy from the 15th to the 18th Century" International Conference - Lucca (16-18 November 2019)