Seminario di Davide Daolmi (Università di Milano)
28/05/2025 Via Divisi, 81, 90133 Palermo PA
The idea that we have today of a ‘medieval sound’, although not homogeneous and diversified by genre, arises from the
overlapping of theories and practices developed especially in the twentieth century, within a process of
rediscovery of ancient music known as early music revival. Although very ideological, the recovery of the
musical past has mainly concerned late Renaissance and Baroque production, leaving the medieval tradition somewhat
on the sidelines, which nevertheless created its own ‘sound’, often generated by practices very
far from what we know about the Middle Ages. The seminar describes the fundamental stages that have allowed early music ensembles
to imagine the music of the full and late Middle Ages, considers its repercussions on current extra-cultured practices
(folk, rock, pop, metal...), and attempts to reason about the cultural weight that such choices have had in recent
decades.