Girolamo GAROFALO

Researcher


email: girolamo.garofalo@unipa.it
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Girolamo Garofalo (Palermo, 1960) is Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Palermo, where he teaches “Byzantine music and of the Christian Orient”.
His investigations and publications (essays and musical anthologies) concern Sicilian folk music and the Byzantine liturgical chant of the Arbëresh of Sicily.
He is founder and member of the Comitato Italiano per l’edizione e lo studio delle Fonti Musicali Bizantine, CIFMB (Italian Committee for the Edition and Study of the Byzantine Music Sources) established in Palermo within the Accademia Nazionale di Scienze, Lettere e Arti di Palermo (National Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters of Palermo) in November 2018, at the request of the Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae of Copenhagen, under the auspices of the Union Académique Internationale (UAI) and of the National Italian Academic Union (UAN).
He is co-founder of the Study Group of the International Musicological Society (IMS) “Music of the Christian East and Orient” established in Bucharest (Romania), on September 2019, during the 8th International Musicological Conference “Musical and Cultural Osmoses in the Balkans” co-organized by the National University of Music Bucharest, and the IMS-Regional Association for the Study of Music of the Balkans.
He participated in many ethnomusicological conferences in Italy and abroad: eg. International Society for the Orthodox Church Music (ISOCM), Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae (MMB), International Musicological Society (IMS), International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM), and has organized many conferences and ethnomusicological festivals.
In the years 2010-2013 he was Scientific and Artistic Director of the initiative “Voice and sound of prayer”: a Study-Day held annually, with an evening concert organized by the Istituto Interculturale di Studi Musicali Comparati (Intercultural Institute of Comparative Music Studies) of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini (2010: The Armenian liturgical chant; 2011: The Byzantine chant in Italy between oral and written tradition; 2012: The Melchite liturgical chant; 2013: The Coptic liturgical chant).
Two of his latest publications in English are:
- A Greek-Byzantine musical island inside an Italian island: the Byzantine chant of the Arbëresh of Sicily, in Ivan Moody and Maria Takala-Roszczenko (eds.) Church Music and Icons: Windows to Heaven (Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Orthodox Church Music, University of Joensuu, Finland, 3-9 June 2013), Joensuu (Finland), International Society for Orthodox Church Music (ISOCM) - University of Eastern Finland, 2015, pags. 387-400)
- Introduction: Father Bartolomeo Di Salvo and his transcriptions of the Byzantine chants among the Albanians of Sicily, in Garofalo Girolamo e Christian Troelsgård (eds.), Bartolomeo di Salvo: Chants of the Byzantine Rite: The Italo-Albanian Tradition in Sicily (Canti Ecclesiastici della Tradizione Italo-Albanese in Sicilia), Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae, Serie Subsidia (Studies and Monographs on Byzantine Chant), vol. V.1, Museum Tusculanum Press, Copenhagen, 2016, pags. XI-XXII.
One of the latest publications in Italian is:
Ugo Gaïsser e Francesco Falsone: due pionieri della ricerca sulla musica bizantina degli Albanesi di Sicilia, in Sergio Bonanzinga e Giuseppe Giordano (a cura di), Figure dell’etnografia musicale europea: materiali, persistenze,trasformazioni. Studi e ricerche per il 150° anniversario della nascita di Alberto Favara (1863-2013), Palermo, Associazione per la conservazione delle tradizioni popolari, 2016, pags. 185-216.
The last conference he organized was the Study Meeting La musica liturgica bizantina in Italia dal Medioevo a oggi fra tradizione scritta e orale (The Byzantine liturgical music in Italy from the Middle Ages until today between written and oral tradition), February 15, 2019, under the patronage of the University of Palermo

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