Twentieth Century Music Archives: Preservation and Valorisation of the Sources

The subject of this seminar, organised in collaboration with the Doctoral Course of National Interest (DIN) Artistic Research on Musical Heritage (ARMH) and the ‘Cesare Pollini’ Conservatory of Padua, is the sources to be found in twentieth-century music archives and their significance for musicological research.

After an overview of the main European and American archives, we move on to examine the fonds held at the Fondazione’s own Institute of Music, in particular those of Giacomo Manzoni, Nino Rota and Roman Vlad. The lectures are structured on two complementary levels: on the one hand, the documentary typologies present and the criteria of ordering and description adopted in the individual fonds are examined; on the other, the relationships between theoretical reflection and compositional practice, the dynamics of the creative process and the peculiarities of musical writing in the field of film soundtracks are analysed.

Lecturers include: Gianmario Borio, Angela Carone, Marco Cosci and Francisco Rocca.