Singing Speech and Speaking Melodies: Musical Theatre (1650-1918)
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Music in the Disruptive Era: the Digital, the Internet and Beyond
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14-16 December 2019
Music, Cinema, and Modernism. The Works and Heritage of Kurt Weill between Europe and...
Virtual Conference, 20-21 May 2021
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Nils Grosch (Universität Salzburg)
Stephen Hinton (Stanford University)
Music and Science from Leonardo to Galileo
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Lucca, 13-15 November 2020
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Victor Coelho (Boston University)
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Lucca, 27-29 November 2020
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Mariateresa Storino (Conservatorio di Musica ‘G. Rossini’, Pesaro)
Susan Wollenberg (Oxford University)
Music and Resistance
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Lucca, 4-6 December 2020
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Barry Cooper (University of Manchester)
William Kinderman(University of California, Los Angeles)
Between Centres and Peripheries. Music in Europe from the French Revolution until WWI (1789-1914)
International Virtual Conference
06-09 May 2021
Italian Film Music, 1950s-1970s: Between Tradition, Innovation, and Internationalisation
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Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini, Lucca
16-17 October 2021
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Franco Sciannameo (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA)
The Sound of Empire: Soundscape, Aesthetics and Performance between Ancien régime and Restoration
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Palazzetto Bru Zane – Centre de musique romantique française
12-14 November 2021
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Diaspora of Musicians in the Long Nineteenth Century
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Music Periodicals as Ideological Arenas. Taste, Power, and the Making of Musical Discourse
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20-22 May 2027
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Sounds of Madness, Soundscapes of Care: Music, Mental Health, and Places from Antiquity to...
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9-11 June 2027
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Music as Memory: Historical, Cognitive and Cultural Perspectives
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22-24 September 2027
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