14/09/2023
Program lectures and workshops of the PhD in Music and Entertainment Curriculum in History and analysis of musical cultures
26-28 September 2023, "Pirrotta" Hall of Music History
Tuesday 26 September, 10.00 (Pirrotta Hall)
Giuliano Danieli (University of Rome "La Sapienza")
Casta Diva di Carmine Gallone e i film biografico-musicali italiani, 1935-1954: Pastiche, Emozioni e Memoria storico-culturale
My lecture will comparatively analyze Carmine Gallone's Casta diva (1935) and the biographicalmusical films produced in Italy between the 1940s and 1950s by highlighting the different
dramaturgical, narrative, temporal and visual strategies adopted in these films, and the role played by music (pre-existing or original) in their soundtracks. I wonder if these characteristics took on a
specific configuration in Casta diva, such as to justify the particular success and importance that this film had in the Italian cultural and cinematic landscape. Useful for the purposes of my analysis is the
aesthetic category of "pastiche," around which an intense debate has developed in recent years. In particular, I take up the theory advanced by Richard Dyer, who identifies film pastiche as a means
of building links between emotions and cultural-historical memory. Applying this idea to my analysis of Casta diva, I discuss the hypothesis that the aesthetics and dramaturgy of Gallone's biopic
(particularly the '54 remake) - which in taking up dramatic-musical topoi derived from the world of opera is effectively configured as a pastiche between opera and film - may have encouraged in
viewers of the time a particularly strong and fruitful affective bond with Italy's (especially nineteenth-century) cultural past, at a time of crisis and reconstruction of national identity as was the immediate postwar period.
Wednesday 27 September, 10.00 (Aula Pirrotta)
Alessandro Maras (University of Rome "La Sapienza")
Musical geographies in the reign of Pius IX
From the musical point of view, the long-lasting monarchy of the last pope-king, admittedly little interested in artistic matters, was characterized not only by that censorial regulation about which
much has been written, but also by the confluence and influence of different musical cultures. The decades-long foreign occupations (French in Rome and Austrian in the Legations), the difficult
penetration of international music both learned and for entertainment, the popular and political song, the absence of a real system of musical production and education, or finally the centuries-old Capitoline multiculturalism are only some of the elements that distinguished the music of the Papal State in the second half of the nineteenth century within the European context.
Thursday 28 September, 10.00 (Aula Pirrotta)
Elisa Novara (University of Rome "La Sapienza")
Between sketch studies and genetic criticism: new trends in Beethoven’s philology
The seminar is divided into two parts and presents (1) a historical profile of the process studies composition, with a focus on the evolution of the different trends of Beethoven’s philology; in 2nd part (2) we will focus on one of the most topical topics of the musicological debate: Beethoven as arranger of himself, starting from the compositional genesis of his arrangement of the Grosse Fuge op. 133/134
Program self-managed seminars of PhD students
26 - 28 September 2023
Tuesday 26 September, 15.00
Speeches and imagery of new wave music between Yugoslavia and Italy in the eighties
intervention by Marica Coppola, Daniele Peraro, Emina Smailbegovic
At the end of the seventies of the twentieth century, starting from England a new musical current recognized with the term new wave developed from the ashes of the punk subculture, distinguishing itself from the latter by a new spirit of experimentation andresearch. At the same time, the social, political and economic context of the 1980s was subject to the significant changes in the previous international balances, which resulted in the symbolic fall of the Berlin Wall. In this scenario, the new wave became a means of expression of collective imaginaries that changed according to the places where it spread. The intervention aims to examine some musical realities from this context and emerged simultaneously in Yugoslavia and Italy. While in the republics of Yugoslavia (Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Macedonia) the new wave had different political repercussions, the scenario of some Italian cities (Bologna, Florence) was influenced by what historians have called not without some critical "ebb". The goal of our intervention is to find relationships between provincial and national contexts, not forgetting the imaginations that the new wave genre has brought to the surface in Europe.
Wednesday 27 September, 15.00
Musicological and ethnomusicological research in contemporaneity. The web between advantages and criticalities
discussion by Sara Antonini, Giuseppe Migliore, Alessandro Susca, Emanuele Tumminello
In the course of this talk we will address some issues related to the interaction between research in musicology and ethnomusicology and the web. In particular, it is intended to analyse some
contemporary research trends focusing on the use of the web as a tool and sometimes object of investigation. Starting from an overview of the most widespread methodologies of web research, we will proceed to deepen some issues through the discussion of case-type, problematic and sometimes unresolved. The aim is to stimulate a debate - hopefully profitable - on issues related to the retrieval of bibliographic or sitographic sources, the use of social networks, digital ethnography and tools to support research/ teaching. In particular, we will analyze: the interaction between serendipity and web search methodologies, with reference to the potential for randomness of some information from the web and highlighting the need for more systematic use of digital resources; the regulatory framework governing the collection, use and dissemination of audiovisual materials depicting whistleblowers and performers, including some field experience; Italian legislation that regulates the documentation and dissemination of cultural heritage in State ownership, comparing regulatory frameworks and practices at international level; the problems and possible opportunities it presents, for the field researcher, the interference of the web within living musical traditions.
Thursday, September 28
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Artificial intelligence: new resources and challenges for musicology
intervention by Roberto Ribuoli
In recent years, artificial intelligence has increasingly changed not only research practices but also the daily life, stimulating an increasingly heated debate about them, with sometimes mystified predictions about its powers and dangers in the near future. In this context, AI solutions for music creation and analysis (assisted composition, audio>midi conversion, production of audio tracks from verbal indications) did not have the surprising developments of the video and photographic world, suggesting a greater complexity of the musical phenomenon, which is described as a musicological challenge and not only technical. The speech aims to present the AI solutions available today for music research in reference to the type of technology used (Neural Networks, Transformers, Large Language Models) and their use scenarios, opening a debate on the topic.
Time 16.00:
Transkribus for document research and analysis
Practical workshop by Sara Mansutti
Transkribus is an AI-based platform for the recognition, transcription and search of historical documents. The software is able to analyze a wide variety of layouts and automatically transcribe handwritten and printed texts, allowing the user to train custom models for specific cases. The workshop provides a brief introduction to the operation of the Handwritten Text Recognition, its employment cases and its involvement in the examination of documents that cannot be analyzed directly by the individual scholar. The platform will be presented through concrete use scenarios, from the transcription of corpora extended to the search for annotations in databases, from the collation of large-scale variants to the support in the realization of digital editions, providing participants with the tools to use the system for the benefit of their research.
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